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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98975"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:48.379Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:48.379Z"
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-2026-98975"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98975.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98975"
title: "xfs: stop exchanging reflink flags when exchanging mappings"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: stop exchanging reflink flags when exchanging mappings\n\nWhen an exchange covers both files from offset 0 to i_disk_size,\nxmi_can_exchange_reflink_flags() assumes every mapping moved and hands\nthe reflink flag over to the other file.\n\nThat assumption is wrong.  A file can still own shared blocks past\ni_disk_size, e.g. after EXCHANGE_RANGE_TO_EOF sets a smaller size\nwithout unmapping anything.  The flag is cleared anyway, and the next\nwrite to such a block happens in place instead of CoW, corrupting the\nother file that shares it.\n\nCommit a23eca88448e (\"xfs: fix exchange-range reflink flag clearing\nissue with INO1_WRITTEN\") fixed one instance of this.  Rather than add\nanother special case, stop moving the flags.\nxfs_exchmaps_ensure_reflink() already sets the flag on both inodes\nbefore the exchange, so both just keep it.\n\nNothing sets CLEAR_INO{1,2}_REFLINK anymore.  Intents logged by older\nkernels may still carry them; recovery already masks them off, so they\nstay in the log format mask and are ignored.\n\nXFS_IOC_SWAPEXT has the same problem: it moves the reflink flag from\none inode to the other along with the extents.  Just removing that is\nnot enough here: the exchange path flags both inodes up front in\nxfs_exchmaps_ensure_reflink(), but swapext has no such step, so the\ninode receiving the shared extents would be left without the flag.\nSet it on both inodes instead, and make sure both have a CoW fork,\nsince an inode with the reflink flag is expected to have one.\n\nThe flag now stays until FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE_RANGE, xfs_scrub, or a\ntruncate to zero removes it."
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