CVE-2025-38615 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails

The reproducer uses a file0 on a ntfs3 file system with a corrupted i_link. When renaming the file0’s inode is marked as a bad inode because the file name cannot be deleted.

The underlying bug is that make_bad_inode() is called on a live inode. In some cases it’s \icache lookup finds a normal inode d_splice_alias() is called to attach it to dentry while another thread decides to call make_bad_inode() on it - that would evict it from icache but we’d already found it there earlier. In some it’s outright \we have an inode attached to dentry - that’s how we got it in the first place; let’s call make_bad_inode() on it just for shits and giggles.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/358d4f821c03add421a4c49290538a705852ccf1 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ed2cc6a6e93fbeb8c0cafce1e7fb1f64a331dcc https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a285395020780adac1ffbc844069c3d700bf007a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b35a50d639ca5259466ef5fea85529bb4fb17d5b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d99208b91933fd2a58ed9ed321af07dacd06ddc3

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