{"cve":"CVE-2026-98279","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-06T09:18:17.783","modified":"2026-10-19T10:18:29.343","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: handle lack of space when cleaning up verity items\n\nWhen enable_verity() hits the qgroup limit, rollback_verity() needs its\nown metadata reservation. When the qgroup limit or lack of space refuses\nthe rollback, the whole filesystem is forced read-only even though the\nqgroup limit was for one subvolume only. Also orphan cleanup at the next\nmount fails the same way, so the leftover items are never removed: with\n-EDQUOT the subvolume stays unreachable, and with -ENOSPC on a full\nfilesystem the next read-write mount fails.\n\nStart transactions with btrfs_start_transaction_fallback_global_rsv() in\nbtrfs_orphan_cleanup(), drop_verity_items() and rollback_verity(). Those\ncalls only delete items and free the space in the end, so they may use\nthe global reserve and skip the qgroup limit, which avoids -ENOSPC and\n-EDQUOT.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b7ecabd87dc40998fe7870d7975279649229a3b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/76bf149cd0298544631e756670b89c399c7acbca","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/efa5780b84f066f419a667f6b9542368b2f62074"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:57:46.668721662+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-98279","score":0.00166,"percentile":0.05777,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}