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CVE-2026-43063: xfs: don't irele after failing to iget in xfs_attri_recover_work

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-05 · updated 2026-10-19
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfs: don't irele after failing to iget in xfs_attri_recover_work xlog_recovery_iget* never set @ip to a valid pointer if they return an error, so this irele will walk off a dangling pointer. Fix that.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 6.10 before 6.12.80; from 6.13 before 6.18.21; from 6.19 before 6.19.11; 7.0-rc1, 7.0-rc2, 7.0-rc3, 7.0-rc4, 7.0-rc5 — fixed in 6.12.80, 6.18.21, 6.19.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.12.80, 6.18.21, 6.19.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40082d08b638485cbaa543dc8087a3d1844d6f08
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70685c291ef82269180758130394ecdc4496b52c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1a5df1038f0b3c560d204270373621a4e622808
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5c5a50c2f513d4a13a6763564a07b470e69cc5a

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