CVE-2025-71184

btrfs: fix NULL dereference on root when tracing inode eviction

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jan 31, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Jan 31, 2026

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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.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f to before 99181ddb124cfe2b09f5e924c308222d2339e82aAffected
  • 1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f to before 64d8abd8c5305795a2b35fc96039d99d34f5e762Affected
  • 1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f to before 582ba48e4a4c06fef6bdcf4e57b7b9af660bbd0cAffected
  • 1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f to before 99e057f3d3ef24b99a7b1d84e01dd1bd890098daAffected
  • 1abe9b8a138c9988ba8f7bfded6453649a31541f to before f157dd661339fc6f5f2b574fe2429c43bd309534Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 2.6.39Affected
  • before 2.6.39Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.130 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.66 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.6 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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