CVE-2026-72186

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: make system files immutable to prevent corruption

When a system file such as $Bitmap is exposed via showsysfiles and

written from userspace, the volume is corrupted and, because the cluster

allocator scans $Bitmap through the same inode's page cache, a write to

$Bitmap also deadlocks writeback against the folio it already holds locked.

These files are maintained by the driver itself and have no valid reason

to be written through the file interface. Mark base metadata files

(mftno < FILEfirst_user) as immutable during inode read so the VFS

rejects write, mmap, truncate and unlink with -EPERM. Directories are

skipped so the root and $Extend remain usable. Internal metadata updates

do not go through the VFS write path and are unaffected.