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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2026-72159

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 8/15/2026 2:21:33 AM

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

ocfs2: reject non-inline dinodes with i_size and zero i_clusters

On a volume mounted without OCFS2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_SPARSE_ALLOC, a
non-inline regular file with non-zero i_size and zero i_clusters is
structurally malformed: the extent map declares no allocated clusters yet
the size header claims content exists.  Keep rejecting that shape, but
express it through a shared predicate so the same invariant is available
to normal inode reads and online filecheck.

The same zero-cluster shape is also malformed for non-inline directories. 
ocfs2 directory growth allocates backing storage before advancing i_size,
and ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_el() later walks until ctx->pos reaches
i_size_read(inode).  A forged directory dinode with a huge i_size and no
clusters would repeatedly fail on holes while advancing through the
claimed size.

Sparse regular files remain exempt: on sparse-alloc volumes, truncate can
legitimately grow i_size without allocating clusters.  System inodes and
inline-data dinodes also retain their separate storage rules.

Mirror the check in ocfs2_filecheck_validate_inode_block() as well. 
filecheck reports through its own error namespace, so malformed
size/cluster state is logged as a filecheck invalid-inode result rather
than via ocfs2_error(), but it must not proceed into
ocfs2_populate_inode().
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2174c68f623b74bd8690a4a6a4a52882d8ac3dc3
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38c1ef7ce50eb4af0f89038b8aba12396ddb9233
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bfeb436d4be6a2beb56cab344770e93e6b07260
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/416d3e5f8a30ed04fe21ba7dc73c2841c3b56265
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ebc672fab7a76e1e47e0f2fc1ee48118d27fde4
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83f6756a7b71adec0a41ae68e079a38906d59c6c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d837068eefbc2651fe5789bf75a0f945710f7b8e
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed0f938f946f16b772e99cb8c277ab57828e5be4
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