SUSE CVE-2026-45892

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: drop extent cache after doing PARTIALVALID1 zeroout When splitting an unwritten extent in the middle and converting it to initialized in ext4splitextent with the EXT4EXTMAYZEROOUT and EXT4EXTDATAVALID2 flags set, it could...

CVE-2026-45892

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: drop extent cache after doing PARTIALVALID1 zeroout When splitting an unwritten extent in the middle and converting it to initialized in ext4splitextent with the EXT4EXTMAYZEROOUT and EXT4EXTDATAVALID2 flags set, it could...

CVE-2026-45892

Summary of CVE-2026-45892 : In the Linux kernel ext4 code, during the split of an unwritten extent, a zeroing step after partial validation could leave a stale unwritten extent in the extent status tree. Specifically, splitting at B with EXT4_EXT_DATA_PARTIAL_VALID1 and EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT could...