GHSA-7W3G-6V3X-44MP
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-19 12:30 – Updated: 2026-07-20 15:31In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix incorrect FI_NO_EXTENT handling in __destroy_extent_node()
When __destroy_extent_node() sets the inode flag FI_NO_EXTENT, it does not reset the length of the largest extent to 0 and update the inode folio. Since modifications to the extent tree are disallowed afterward, the cached largest extent may become stale. This can trigger the following error in xfstests generic/388:
F2FS-fs (dm-0): sanity_check_extent_cache: inode (ino=1761) extent info [220057, 57, 6] is incorrect, run fsck to fix
In the f2fs_drop_inode path, __destroy_extent_node() does not need to guarantee that et->node_cnt is 0, because concurrency with writeback is expected in this path, and writeback may update the extent cache.
This patch reverts commit ed78aeebef05 ("f2fs: fix node_cnt race between extent node destroy and writeback"), and remove the unnecessary zero check of et->node_cnt.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-63812"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-07-19T12:16:54Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix incorrect FI_NO_EXTENT handling in __destroy_extent_node()\n\nWhen __destroy_extent_node() sets the inode flag FI_NO_EXTENT, it does\nnot reset the length of the largest extent to 0 and update the inode\nfolio. Since modifications to the extent tree are disallowed afterward,\nthe cached largest extent may become stale. This can trigger the\nfollowing error in xfstests generic/388:\n\nF2FS-fs (dm-0): sanity_check_extent_cache: inode (ino=1761) extent info [220057, 57, 6] is incorrect, run fsck to fix\n\nIn the f2fs_drop_inode path, __destroy_extent_node() does not need to\nguarantee that et-\u003enode_cnt is 0, because concurrency with writeback\nis expected in this path, and writeback may update the extent cache.\n\nThis patch reverts commit ed78aeebef05 (\"f2fs: fix node_cnt race between\nextent node destroy and writeback\"), and remove the unnecessary zero\ncheck of et-\u003enode_cnt.",
"id": "GHSA-7w3g-6v3x-44mp",
"modified": "2026-07-20T15:31:47Z",
"published": "2026-07-19T12:30:23Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63812"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f70ddb28a3c71df124da5fa4040c808116d6bb9"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20190e498057997532c7f186d081011f18e0a462"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58a5deb220bcac4c73bf58954c0845644c997487"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7e4d8f98be63f98856a5176b9188dada6e7ba9ee"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edf12cbeeeabe799bd2ee21fdb5c336cce6fbad7"
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
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