GHSA-rm6f-75fw-gq38HighCVSS 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jbd2: fix integer underflow...

Published
August 15, 2026
Last Modified
August 17, 2026

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📋 Description

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

jbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit()

jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit() validates journal capacity by checking (journal->j_last - num_fc_blks < JBD2_MIN_JOURNAL_BLOCKS). Both j_last and num_fc_blks are unsigned, so when num_fc_blks exceeds j_last the subtraction wraps to a large value, bypassing the bounds check.

The resulting underflow corrupts j_last, j_fc_first, and j_free, leading to journal abort.

Fix by checking num_fc_blks against j_last before the subtraction, returning -EFSCORRUPTED.

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