CVE-2026-97549EPSS p8.9%
CVE-2026-97549CVE-2026-97549
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xfs: fix under-reservation of blocks when repairing sf directories
Whilst running QA on XFS for-next as of 7.3-rc2 with MKFS_OPTIONS="-n
size=8192", I observed the following (trimmed) dmesg splat:
XFS: Assertion failed: args->total >= dp->i_nblocks - nblks, file: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_da_btree.c, line: 2387
WARNING: fs/xfs/xfs_message.c:104 at assfail+0x46/0x4a [xfs], CPU#0: xfs_scrub/1426511
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1426511 Comm: xfs_scrub Tainted: G W 7.3.0-rc2-djwx #rc2 PREEMPT(lazy) 6e418570b606a39783b0e7e7b30dc407b965f9e8
Tainted: [W]=WARN
RIP: 0010:assfail+0x46/0x4a [xfs]
RSP: 0018:ffffc900010d7890 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffd1
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000021 RDI: ffffffffa059fd38
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000000000a R11: 000000007fffffff R12: ffffc900010d7940
R13: ffff888368d8
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.20% probability of exploitation · percentile 8.9% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-10-03 |