CVE-2026-100073

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix transaction overflow during writeback Commit 95ad8ee45cdb ("ext4: correct the reserved credits for extent conversion") was correct to note that we need to reserve enough credits for all extents possibly underlying a large folio. However it was too eager to reduce the number of reserved credits. Extent conversion may not only need to touch several leaf extent blocks, it may also need to split extents - for example a single large unwritten extent may need to be split into many small written ones in case of sparse folio dirtying. This can thus result not only in extent leaf modifications but also in a need to allocate new extent tree nodes. As a result the reserved transaction credits were not sufficient in some corner cases. Use ext4_meta_trans_blocks() for correct upper bound credit estimate.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Oct 2026, 18:57

Type Values Removed Values Added
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46e8e31771f4f1c5e1cdec37a889a6730e42e9f1 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46e8e31771f4f1c5e1cdec37a889a6730e42e9f1 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a22464c5df5827e884a5a7d3d8fb03870e5bb6c8 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a22464c5df5827e884a5a7d3d8fb03870e5bb6c8 - Patch
CWE CWE-617
First Time Linux linux Kernel
Linux
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

25 Sep 2026, 14:17

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-25 14:17

Updated : 2026-10-21 18:57


NVD link : CVE-2026-100073

Mitre link : CVE-2026-100073

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-100073


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel
CWE
CWE-617

Reachable Assertion