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        "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.349Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-10-18T15:14:55.754Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:19:40.826Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfs: don't let memory failures leak blocks and kill repairs\n\nLOLLM complains that a memory allocation failure in\nxrep_newbt_add_blocks results in online repair leaking blocks that were\npreviously allocated to write a new btree, but the problem is worse than\nthat -- a limitation of the codebase is that the callers cannot undo the\ntransaction /and/ return the error -- either you undo all changes and\ncommit the transaction, or you error out and the filesystem goes down.\n\nHowever, the new btree space reservation object isn't that big (~48\nbytes).  Let's just do a NOFAIL allocation and the problem goes away."
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