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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97927"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:44.834Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:10:54.225Z"
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-2026-97927"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97927.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97927"
title: "ufs: create the root dentry after loading cylinder metadata"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nufs: create the root dentry after loading cylinder metadata\n\nufs_fill_super() installed sb-\u003es_root before it loaded the cylinder\ngroup structures for a writable mount:\n\n\tsb-\u003es_root = d_make_root(inode);\n\t...\n\tif (!sb_rdonly(sb))\n\t\tif (!ufs_read_cylinder_structures(sb))\n\t\t\tgoto failed;\n\nWhen ufs_read_cylinder_structures() failed, the error path freed the\nin-core superblock information and set sb-\u003es_fs_info to NULL while\nsb-\u003es_root stayed installed. get_tree_bdev() then reached\ndeactivate_locked_super(), and because s_root was present,\ngeneric_shutdown_super() called sync_filesystem() and the put_super\noperation. Both dereference UFS_SB(sb), which is now NULL, so a mount\nthat fails only while reading the cylinder groups oopses during\nteardown. A crafted image whose first cylinder group cannot be read\nreaches this path.\n\nLoad the cylinder group metadata first and create the root dentry last,\nso the superblock is published to the VFS only once it is fully set up.\nufs_setup_cstotal() and ufs_read_cylinder_structures() take only the\nsuper_block and do not use the root inode, so the reordering is safe."
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