# CVE-2026-99102: ntfs: take invalidate\_lock in ntfs\_setattr\_size()

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-112002
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-28 · Updated: 2026-10-28

## Summary

The Linux kernel's NTFS filesystem driver (ntfs) is affected, specifically its file truncate and resize handling. A race during file size changes can cause memory-mapped file accesses to fail with a spurious bus error (SIGBUS) that crashes the affected program.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 7.1

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: take invalidate_lock in ntfs_setattr_size() ntfs_setattr_size() updates i_size and resizes the on-disk attribute without holding mapping->invalidate_lock. Page faults take the lock shared, so a fault racing the resize can resolve a VCN against the transient runlist state of ntfs_non_resident_attr_expand() and fail with a spurious SIGBUS, and can interleave with the size-change epilogue (truncate_pagecache(), i_size_write(), pagecache_isize_extended()). Take invalidate_lock exclusively around the whole resize after inode_dio_wait(), matching the fallocate path and other filesystems such as xfs, which wraps truncate in its mmaplock (= invalidate_lock).

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0b0738ba95731eeafd11352c74f8b48951f67dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cc5761b8f28f9cef72061094eb5e37e2cd44d97

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