CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-71184
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-01-31
- Last modified
- 2026-10-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix NULL dereference on root when tracing inode eviction
When evicting an inode the first thing we do is to setup tracing for it,
which implies fetching the root's id. But in btrfs_evict_inode() the
root might be NULL, as implied in the next check that we do in
btrfs_evict_inode().
Hence, we either should set the ->root_objectid to 0 in case the root is
NULL, or we move tracing setup after checking that the root is not
NULL. Setting the rootid to 0 at least gives us the possibility to trace
this call even in the case when the root is NULL, so that's the solution
taken here.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.39.1 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.66)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.6)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39
• linux linux kernel 6.19
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/582ba48e4a4c06fef6bdcf4e57b7b9af660bbd0c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64d8abd8c5305795a2b35fc96039d99d34f5e762 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99181ddb124cfe2b09f5e924c308222d2339e82a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99e057f3d3ef24b99a7b1d84e01dd1bd890098da Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f157dd661339fc6f5f2b574fe2429c43bd309534 Patch