CVE-2026-93258

Summary

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

ocfs2: do not use make_bad_inode() in ocfs2_read_inode_block_full()

This reverts commit 58b6fcd2ab34 ("ocfs2: mark inode bad upon validation failure during read").

Since 'make_bad_inode()' resets inode type to S_IFREG, doing this for directory inode during active VFS lookup is likely to confuse the latter, including VFS_BUG_ON_INODE() triggered in this case.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux58b6fcd2ab34399258dc509f701d0986a8e0bcaa < 0e7459abff46e28e64367057038ef8607e63f599affected
LinuxLinux58b6fcd2ab34399258dc509f701d0986a8e0bcaa < d48ace65322001b41bb5322442a21425ef4407d4affected
LinuxLinux6.19affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.19unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.6 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc1 <= *unaffected

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