CVE-2026-72225: jbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit()

Published Aug 15, 2026
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Updated

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

jbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2journalinitializefastcommit()

jbd2journalinitializefastcommit() validates journal capacity by checking (journal->jlast - numfcblks < JBD2MINJOURNALBLOCKS). Both jlast and numfcblks are unsigned, so when numfcblks exceeds jlast the subtraction wraps to a large value, bypassing the bounds check.

The resulting underflow corrupts jlast, jfcfirst, and jfree, leading to journal abort.

Fix by checking numfcblks against jlast before the subtraction, returning -EFSCORRUPTED.

Event History

Aug 15, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·05:54 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·05:54 AM
Description
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