# 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-2026-98961"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:29.616Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:29.616Z"
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-2026-98961"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98961.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98961"
title: "btrfs: unlock inode and extent in caller when io_uring read extent fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: unlock inode and extent in caller when io_uring read extent fails\n\nbtrfs_uring_read_extent() runs only after btrfs_encoded_read() has taken\nthe inode shared lock and the extent lock.  On failure it used to unlock\nin out_fail, and a pages-array allocation failure returned -ENOMEM\nwithout unlocking at all.\n\nUnlock in the caller instead on all failure returns, matching the\ncopy_to_user() error path.  The deferred -EIOCBQUEUED path still unlocks\nin btrfs_uring_read_finished()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"34310c442e175f286b4c06ab5caa4e0b267ea31c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2797eb38773a96914ccedeec71eb2144645400b2"},{"version":"34310c442e175f286b4c06ab5caa4e0b267ea31c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ada1fc725a4db407294ae90a0d40ef1c46f457f2"},{"version":"34310c442e175f286b4c06ab5caa4e0b267ea31c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6e8add5d79d1f6f819a054c833bab452bd7365d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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