erofs: remove fscache backend entirely

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-80899
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerLinux
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-04 18:17:58 UTC
Updated2026-09-07 15:17:33 UTC
DescriptionIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: remove fscache backend entirely EROFS over fscache was introduced to provide image lazy pulling functionality. After the feature landed, the fscache subsystem made netfs a new hard dependency, which is unexpected for a local filesystem and has an kernel-defined caching hierarchy which could be inflexible compared to the fanotify pre-content hooks. Therefore, this feature has been deprecated for almost two years. As EROFS file-backed mounts and fanotify pre-content hooks both upstream for a while and already providing equivalent functionality (erofs-utils has supported fanotify pre-content hooks), let's remove the fscache backend now. The main application of this feature is Nydus [1], and they plan to move to use fanotify pre-content hooks in the near future too. I hope this patch can be merged into Linux 7.2, which is also motivated by newly found implementation issues [2][3] that are not worth investigating given the deprecation and limited development resources. The associated fscache/cachefiles cleanup patch will follow separately through the vfs tree (netfs) later: it seems fine since the codebase is isolated by CONFIG_CACHEFILES_ONDEMAND. [1] https://github.com/dragonflyoss/nydus/blob/v2.1.0/docs/nydus-fscache.md [2] https://github.com/dragonflyoss/nydus/pull/1824 [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Risk And Classification

EPSS: 0.001450000 probability, percentile 0.041110000 (date 2026-09-07)

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Linux Linux affected a1bafc3109d713ed83f73d61ba5cb1e6fd80fdbc f6145794f17a27d25f8a84edb80731fb0e07c196 git Not specified
CNA Linux Linux affected a1bafc3109d713ed83f73d61ba5cb1e6fd80fdbc c37460cd9b2fcb61ec66b7eb4fde737e65ec2a56 git Not specified
CNA Linux Linux affected 6.9 Not specified
CNA Linux Linux unaffected 6.9 semver Not specified
CNA Linux Linux unaffected 7.1.8 7.1.* semver Not specified
CNA Linux Linux unaffected 7.2 * original_commit_for_fix Not specified

References

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git.kernel.org/stable/c/c37460cd9b2fcb61ec66b7eb4fde737e65ec2a56 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6145794f17a27d25f8a84edb80731fb0e07c196 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 git.kernel.org
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