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CVE-2026-98091

btrfs: detach failed sprout device from transaction update list PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: detach failed sprout device from transaction update list When creating the first metadata chunk for a sprout filesystem, create_chunk() adds the new device to the transaction dev_update_list through device->post_commit_list. If the subsequent system chunk creation fails, btrfs_init_new_device() aborts the transaction and releases the device while post_commit_list is still linked. This triggers a warning in btrfs_free_device() and leaves the transaction list referencing freed memory. Detach the device while holding chunk_mutex before releasing it.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected bbbf7243d62d8be73b7ef60721c127b36b2d523e before 2a57fb1d5ce8f316b81bbb60e6df245ebc816ffc; affected bbbf7243d62d8be73b7ef60721c127b36b2d523e before 86eff3052054e8f3b059b2d5845b6dcca021f20c; affected bbbf7243d62d8be73b7ef60721c127b36b2d523e before 63bfa52eb3289517aa82cb90e1189385873aae21; affected bbbf7243d62d8be73b7ef60721c127b36b2d523e before 7fe9dfbca43464baa8f050447a4837587b18adec; affected bbbf7243d62d8be73b7ef60721c127b36b2d523e before e9e7e37afa85db770e6084360b21a21a8b3a583f; affected bbbf7243d62d8be73b7ef60721c127b36b2d523e before 8b001df2b37ca022f710f3254fbb0bcd6d9e1bed; affected bbbf7243d62d8be73b7ef60721c127b36b2d523e before 0ea6814bc0ff7cff443241bd34db9f0f828f3190; affected bbbf7243d62d8be73b7ef60721c127b36b2d523e before c93b3c43df561cd9f592cee20ae058b563f9e5b6
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.2; unaffected 0 before 5.2; unaffected 5.10.271 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.222 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.189 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.158 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.111 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.53 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.7 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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