CVE-2026-97546

xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them

N/A
Published: September 25, 2026 at 10:21 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: don't spin forever on zero-length dirents when salvaging them LOLLM noticed that xrep_dir_recover_data can spin forever if it encounters an unused dirent that claims to have length zero. Fix that, and prevent the same thing from happening with a zero-length entry.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.10b1991ee3e7cf852e95a3498801303cfbb4468681
Vendor states this is fixed in 08754ebfa5c28e8d57316b1bd7a5a921a5e2e762 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5442f0c56445618544a801fb4dae35aed87a1aaa (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9f84792b40d0c96833341602144574bf0bd14a6a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in a455c83ce5dc1a2da33b1b84253d298372a8dfbd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.111 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.53 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc3 (unaffected)

Remediation

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