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CVE-2026-100073

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Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a bug in the ext4 filesystem related to transaction overflow during writeback was fixed. A previous fix was too eager in reducing reserved transaction credits, leading to insufficient reservation in some corner cases. The fix uses ext4_meta_trans_blocks() for a correct upper bound estimate.

Risk Assessment

Insufficient transaction credit reservation can lead to transaction overflow, filesystem errors, and in extreme cases data loss or system hang. This affects systems using ext4, especially with large folio operations and sparse dirtying.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix. Monitor ext4 filesystems for errors after the update.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix transaction overflow during writeback Commit 95ad8ee45cdb ("ext4: correct the reserved credits for extent conversion") was correct to note that we need to reserve enough credits for all extents possibly underlying a large folio. However it was too eager to reduce the number of reserved credits. Extent conversion may not only need to touch several leaf extent blocks, it may also need to split extents - for example a single large unwritten extent may need to be split into many small written ones in case of sparse folio dirtying. This can thus result not only in extent leaf modifications but also in a need to allocate new extent tree nodes. As a result the reserved transaction credits were not sufficient in some corner cases. Use ext4_meta_trans_blocks() for correct upper bound credit estimate.

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