UBUNTU-CVE-2026-97549: Medium severity ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: fix under-reservation of blocks when repairing sf directories Whilst running QA on XFS for-next as of 7.3-rc2 with MKFSOPTIONS="-n size=8192", I observed the following (trimmed) dmesg splat: XFS: Assertion failed: args->total >= dp->inblocks - nblks, file: fs/xfs/libxfs/xfsdabtree.c, line: 2387 WARNING: fs/xfs/xfsmessage.c:104 at assfail+0x46/0x4a [xfs], CPU#0: xfsscrub/1426511 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1426511 Comm: xfsscrub Tainted: G W 7.3.0-rc2-djwx #rc2 PREEMPT(lazy) 6e418570b606a39783b0e7e7b30dc407b965f9e8 Tainted: [W]=WARN RIP: 0010:assfail+0x46/0x4a [xfs] RSP: 0018:ffffc900010d7890 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffd1 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000021 RDI: ffffffffa059fd38 RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 000000000000000a R11: 000000007fffffff R12: ffffc900010d7940 R13: ffff888368d8f980 R14: ffffc900010d7a48 R15: ffffc900010d78d0 FS: 00007f445c5ce680(0000) GS:ffff8884a97ea000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f443803b9a8 CR3: 0000000107a4b000 CR4: 00000000003506f0 Call Trace: <TASK> xfsdagrowinodeint+0x2e0/0x300 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xfsdir2growinode+0x6e/0x150 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xfsdir2sftoblock+0x149/0x870 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xrepdirswapprep+0xe2/0x110 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xrepdirswap+0xfb/0x2f0 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xrepdirrebuildtree+0x99/0x100 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xrepdirectory+0x83/0x1c0 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xrepattempt+0x4f/0x1e0 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xfsscrubmetadata+0x393/0x5b0 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xfsiocscrubvmetadata+0x306/0x570 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] xfsfileioctl+0xa4f/0x1150 [xfs 5de2257e14108c136f11317e6bbb8ac77efd392c] x64sysioctl+0x76/0xc0 dosyscall64+0x7a/0x3b0 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x4b/0x53 This is a consequence of commit 0fe77e57588b98, which added the following assertion to xfsdagrowinodeint: ASSERT(args->total >= dp->inblocks - nblks); Tracing this back to xrepdirswapprep, I noticed that the xfsdaargs object that's passed to xfsdir2sftoblock sets args->total to 1. This is incorrect because mkfs set the directory block size to 8k and the filesystem block size to 4k. In other words, args->total should be 2 here, not 1. Dave Chinner tripped over the same problem with the same branch through a different channel -- his test setup set the fs block size to 1k, in which case the directory block size is still set to 4k. Here, args->total should be 4. Changing the assignment of args->total to sc->mp->mdirgeo->fsbcount makes the assertion go away, but that isn't a complete fix. In xreptempexchestimate, we also incorrectly assume that a shortform conversion requires 1 fsblock when it should be mdirgeo->fsbcount. Without that, we can under-reserve space in the transaction and cause a filesystem shutdown. Note that the xfsdabufnfsb helper will compute the correct value for directories and xattr, so we use that instead of open-coding the logic. Also fix xrepxattrswapprep to assign args->total via xfsdabufnfsb to avoid one logic bomb if we ever support multi-fsblock attrs. Tripped-by: 0fe77e57588b98 ("xfs: assert the reservation covers each da fork growth")