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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix transaction abort on set received ioctl due to item overflow If the set received ioctl fails due to an item overflow when attempting to add the BTRFS_UUID_KEY_RECEIVED_SUBVOL we have to abort the transaction since we did some metadata updates before. This means that if a user calls this ioctl with the same received UUID field for a lot of subvolumes, we will hit the overflow, trigger the transaction abort and turn the filesystem into RO mode. A malicious user could exploit this, and this ioctl does not even requires that a user has admin privileges (CAP_SYS_ADMIN), only that he/she owns the subvolume. Fix this by doing an early check for item overflow before starting a transaction. This is also race safe because we are holding the subvol_sem semaphore in exclusive (write) mode. A test case for fstests will follow soon.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-01 | Published 2026-05-08 | Updated 2026-05-08 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 (git) before b9914db13ac15aca3b74544c0bb1a2e0dad1f174
affected

dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 (git) before b19c0465e4daad5aa8f60552ea0578cf31a11b1e
affected

dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 (git) before 2e57b8cac2ba0d38aac76c1ecdfd8b899e3581a5
affected

dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 (git) before d11aefe654a04fc41996d254748d6a38b6b0a7be
affected

dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 (git) before 41fb97353ff58fa4f31904c343fc8e3df2f7517d
affected

dd5f9615fc5c5e8d3751aab3a17b92768fb1ce70 (git) before 87f2c46003fce4d739138aab4af1942b1afdadac
affected

Default status
affected

3.12
affected

Any version before 3.12
unaffected

6.1.167 (semver)
unaffected

6.6.130 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.78 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.19 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.9 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/b9914db13ac15aca3b74544c0bb1a2e0dad1f174

git.kernel.org/...c/b19c0465e4daad5aa8f60552ea0578cf31a11b1e

git.kernel.org/...c/2e57b8cac2ba0d38aac76c1ecdfd8b899e3581a5

git.kernel.org/...c/d11aefe654a04fc41996d254748d6a38b6b0a7be

git.kernel.org/...c/41fb97353ff58fa4f31904c343fc8e3df2f7517d

git.kernel.org/...c/87f2c46003fce4d739138aab4af1942b1afdadac

cve.org (CVE-2026-43359)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-43359)

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