CVE-2026-98538

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: writeback: bound cleanupofflinecgwb rescans by rotating scanned inodes cleanupofflinecgwb prepares at most WBMAXINODESPERISW inodes per call and is called again until the dying wb is drained, but every call walks wb-battached and...

CVE-2026-98538

The Linux kernel contains a performance issue in the writeback subsystem where the cleanup_offline_cgwb() function performs a quadratic drain of inodes. This occurs because the function repeatedly walks wb->b_attached and wb->b_dirty_time from the same end, causing it to rescanned a growing...

CVE-2026-98538 writeback: bound cleanup_offline_cgwb() rescans by rotating scanned inodes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: writeback: bound cleanupofflinecgwb rescans by rotating scanned inodes cleanupofflinecgwb prepares at most WBMAXINODESPERISW inodes per call and is called again until the dying wb is drained, but every call walks wb-battached and...

EUVD-2026-103583

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: writeback: bound cleanupofflinecgwb rescans by rotating scanned inodes cleanupofflinecgwb prepares at most WBMAXINODESPERISW inodes per call and is called again until the dying wb is drained, but every call walks wb-battached and...

CVE-2026-98538

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: writeback: bound cleanupofflinecgwb rescans by rotating scanned inodes cleanupofflinecgwb prepares at most WBMAXINODESPERISW inodes per call and is called again until the dying wb is drained, but every call walks wb-battached and...