CVE-2026-98961: btrfs: unlock inode and extent in caller when io_uring read extent fails

Published Oct 23, 2026
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Updated

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

btrfs: unlock inode and extent in caller when iouring read extent fails

btrfsuringreadextent() runs only after btrfsencodedread() has taken the inode shared lock and the extent lock. On failure it used to unlock in outfail, and a pages-array allocation failure returned -ENOMEM without unlocking at all.

Unlock in the caller instead on all failure returns, matching the copytouser() error path. The deferred -EIOCBQUEUED path still unlocks in btrfsuringreadfinished().

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Oct 23, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:19 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:19 PM
Description

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