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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97552"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:21:44.651Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:09:15.341Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97552"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97552.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97552"
title: "xfs: initialise error in xfs_defer_finish_one()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: initialise error in xfs_defer_finish_one()\n\nxfs_defer_finish_one() declares error without an initialiser and only\nassigns it inside the loop over dfp-\u003edfp_work.  When that list is empty\nthe loop body never runs, control falls through to the \"Done with the\ndfp, free it\" path, and the function returns an indeterminate value.\n\nAn item-less pending item reaches this through xfs_defer_add_barrier(),\nwhich xfs_reap_ag_blocks() uses on any CONFIG_XFS_ONLINE_REPAIR kernel.\nxfs_defer_finish_noroll() treats any non-EAGAIN return as fatal, so a\nnon-zero stack value turns a successful barrier into a\nSHUTDOWN_CORRUPT_INCORE in the middle of a repair.  Zero is the correct\nresult: reaching the free path means the item loop drained without a\nnon-zero error."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3f3cec031099c37513727efc978a12b6346e326d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30748a24b9f04f9a83599ba907cc8fbff0729f3c"},{"version":"3f3cec031099c37513727efc978a12b6346e326d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba949a14446b7346e92e676ee3fe2bb79d9ce450"},{"version":"3f3cec031099c37513727efc978a12b6346e326d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b507c239884f7d4bf8339f6e9eb8bfcb540afde"},{"version":"3f3cec031099c37513727efc978a12b6346e326d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6176d21d7bd609632c5b7e87a3adb9be29ec1e72"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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