CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-71184

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-01-31 Modified 2026-10-30 Official page ↗
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