UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-72164
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ocfs2: avoid moving extents to occupied clusters For non-auto OCFS2_IOC_MOVE_EXT operation
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ocfs2: avoid moving extents to occupied clusters
For non-auto OCFS2_IOC_MOVE_EXT operations, userspace supplies a physical
me_goal. ocfs2_move_extent() initializes new_phys_cpos from that goal and
expects ocfs2_probe_alloc_group() to replace it with a free run in the
target block group.
The probe currently leaves *phys_cpos unchanged if the scan reaches the
end of the group without finding a free run. An occupied goal at the last
bit can therefore survive the probe and be passed to
__ocfs2_move_extent(), which copies file data into a cluster still owned
by another inode before the bitmap is updated.
When the probe does find a free run, it also subtracts move_len from the
ending bit. The start of an N-bit run ending at i is i - N + 1, so the
current calculation can report the bit immediately before the free run.
Clear *phys_cpos before scanning and use the correct free-run start.
Callers already treat a zero result as -ENOSPC, so failed probes no longer
continue with an occupied caller-controlled goal.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d0c5c17b18bdbc592ac26ab4d1de7e3dbf9be1e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/19f7b04924b20b81dabbeed19d5542792ba5b6d6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22920541c35a9f23f219038ba5874c843a7c4419
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3112afebf2a76e522fbaabcbb0c47aafbdc35932
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35486b291b8fbde6c4d0b1c79e565c6260d3329d
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-08-15 via NVD.
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