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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 15, 2026· Updated Aug 23, 2026

CVE-2026-72225

CVE-2026-72225

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

jbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit()

jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit() validates journal capacity by checking (journal->j_last - num_fc_blks < JBD2_MIN_JOURNAL_BLOCKS). Both j_last and num_fc_blks are unsigned, so when num_fc_blks exceeds j_last the subtraction wraps to a large value, bypassing the bounds check.

The resulting underflow corrupts j_last, j_fc_first, and j_free, leading to journal abort.

Fix by checking num_fc_blks against j_last before the subtraction, returning -EFSCORRUPTED.

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