CVE-2026-45912

Published: Mag 27, 2026 Last Modified: Mag 27, 2026
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Description

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

ext4: don't cache extent during splitting extent

Caching extents during the splitting process is risky, as it may result
in stale extents remaining in the status tree. Moreover, in most cases,
the corresponding extent block entries are likely already cached before
the split happens, making caching here not particularly useful.

Assume we have an unwritten extent, and then DIO writes the first half.

[UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] on-disk extent U: unwritten extent
[UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU] extent status tree
|<- ->| ----> dio write this range

First, when ext4_split_extent_at() splits this extent, it truncates the
existing extent and then inserts a new one. During this process, this
extent status entry may be shrunk, and calls to ext4_find_extent() and
ext4_cache_extents() may occur, which could potentially insert the
truncated range as a hole into the extent status tree. After the split
is completed, this hole is not replaced with the correct status.

[UUUUUUU|UUUUUUUU] on-disk extent U: unwritten extent
[UUUUUUU|HHHHHHHH] extent status tree H: hole

Then, the outer calling functions will not correct this remaining hole
extent either. Finally, if we perform a delayed buffer write on this
latter part, it will re-insert the delayed extent and cause an error in
space accounting.

In adition, if the unwritten extent cache is not shrunk during the
splitting, ext4_cache_extents() also conflicts with existing extents
when caching extents. In the future, we will add checks when caching
extents, which will trigger a warning. Therefore, Do not cache extents
that are being split.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c2d9dac4d328244f9365b0a1fa27ec802821820
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b1f4290453314e11cd8e15c7baa8a9b76c19b23
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/692103feca376ae4298c92aa8828015d20f1d87b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8302b5b4aacdbb378f7b1216bb2ee782b5142415
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b4b19a2f96348d70bfa306ef7d4a13b0bcbea79
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93b2ebbbcb2e63cfc21a1946dfe91d3aa7952036
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96007fd3c106aea773c1afae2d6f64cceb6da208
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a2b95cdaf07785e2739199037bd9c0863ccc1be