# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98907"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T11:54:44.224Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T11:54:44.224Z"
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-2026-98907"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98907.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98907"
title: "btrfs: protect sb_write_pointer() with invalidate lock"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: protect sb_write_pointer() with invalidate lock\n\nsb_write_pointer() reads the super block from the block device page cache\nusing read_cache_page_gfp(). This has the same race with BLKBSZSET as the\none fixed by commit 3f29d661e568 (\"btrfs: sync read disk super and set\nblock size\").\n\nTake the mapping invalidate lock around read_cache_page_gfp() to\nserialize the read against block size changes."
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