CVE-2026-80538 (GCVE-0-2026-80538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-26 14:37 – Updated: 2026-08-27 05:01
VLAI
Title
xfs: propagate errors from xfs_rtginode_load
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: propagate errors from xfs_rtginode_load xfs_rtginode_ensure() treats every xfs_rtginode_load() error other than -ENOENT as success. This can leave the realtime group inode unset after an I/O, allocation, or corruption error. Growfs then continues as though the inode had been loaded. Only -ENOENT means that the inode needs to be created. Return all other errors to the growfs caller.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ae897e0bed0f5461a6b1c3259c7d899759ba2a62 , < ec19cea4ef1ce9d6e2e3f7e9e7bf88ede31176e7 (git)
Affected: ae897e0bed0f5461a6b1c3259c7d899759ba2a62 , < 61c5165f02deb2eed9b6b539bb279e6629fee652 (git)
Affected: ae897e0bed0f5461a6b1c3259c7d899759ba2a62 , < b7e53968cb8882c2d276429ea8550848a4940874 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.46 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.10 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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