CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89644
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix extent map leak in NOCOW direct I/O write
btrfs_dio_iomap_begin() calls btrfs_get_extent(), which returns an
extent map reference that must be dropped on all exit paths.
For direct writes into a NOCOW range, btrfs_get_blocks_direct_write()
keeps using that extent map and asks btrfs_create_dio_extent() to
allocate the ordered extent. If that fails, for example because
btrfs_alloc_ordered_extent() fails, the function returns the error
without dropping the input extent map. The PREALLOC path avoided this by
dropping the input extent map before replacing it with the newly created
one.
Check the error from btrfs_create_dio_extent() before replacing the
map and drop the input extent map on failure.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05a1a816eef8b3e4332620a64fc8cf45c4eb5c0d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f950867c307c5413d628a153ac44915bd117ffd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7c873765875645b11503f94c9bae2ca80127375 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb732d302245b14943a5017015fffa8e6db7a6c0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f42efd634c0ae7ba0ce2fc5e30e291b0803b0ae2 git.kernel.org