CVE-2026-93257

Summary

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

block: handle nogenerate/noverify properly in fs-integrity

Check the BIP_CHECK flags before generating or verifying PI information, otherwise this can be incorrectly called for non-PI metadata and cause generation of incorrect metadata and crashed in the verification handler.

The new behavior matches that of the block layer auto-generated metadata.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux0bde8a12b5540572a7fd6d2867bee6de15e4f289 < b681c740e6d645f7d7477e9208db57917c6c0fbcaffected
LinuxLinux0bde8a12b5540572a7fd6d2867bee6de15e4f289 < 3bf9a21e7bccfd8c35b440efd114c61cc9838a41affected
LinuxLinux7.1affected
LinuxLinux0 < 7.1unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.6 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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