High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 2026· Updated Aug 27, 2026

CVE-2026-80538

Description

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

xfs: propagate errors from xfs_rtginode_load

xfs_rtginode_ensure() treats every xfs_rtginode_load() error other than -ENOENT as success. This can leave the realtime group inode unset after an I/O, allocation, or corruption error. Growfs then continues as though the inode had been loaded.

Only -ENOENT means that the inode needs to be created. Return all other errors to the growfs caller.

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Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
osv-coords
pkg:linux/kernel
Range: >= 6.13.0, < 6.18.46

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/61c5165f02deb2eed9b6b539bb279e6629fee652nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7e53968cb8882c2d276429ea8550848a4940874nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec19cea4ef1ce9d6e2e3f7e9e7bf88ede31176e7nvd

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