Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2026· Updated Oct 21, 2026
CVE-2026-98081
CVE-2026-98081
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: zoned: finish active block group cleanup if call_zone_finish() fails
do_zone_finish() clears BLOCK_GROUP_FLAG_ZONE_IS_ACTIVE before finishing the zones. If call_zone_finish() then fails it returned early, leaving the now inactive block group on fs_info->zone_active_bgs, leaking its reference, the BTRFS_FS_NEED_ZONE_FINISH waiters are never woken, and as its alloc_offset equals the zone capacity btrfs_zone_finish_one_bg() keeps selecting it, spinning btrfs_zoned_activate_one_bg().
Fall through to the cleanup on failure too and return the error, but keep the block group read-only as its zones are left inconsistent.
Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versions
>= 5.19.0, < 6.6.160+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 5.19.0, < 6.6.160
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.9-1.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/36b9cdab44848f25879ca625275c92b007f84653nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/40370f02a1ca3760f8925ffcbe76eb4d91ea758dnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/433d52b196a689b18dcfadc7cf6c784f0e5cc7c9nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a18a6b93a2843b9d103d3456bbd4b3f90282a379nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1b168a53174b385e3548bfbd079513b22ac240cnvd
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