Linux Kernel Security Vulnerabilities

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux operating system developed by the Linux Foundation in the United States. There is a security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, which stems from the possibility of dereferencing an empty root directory during the recycling of tracked Inodes,...

CVE-2025-39884 btrfs: fix subvolume deletion lockup caused by inodes xarray race

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: fix subvolume deletion lockup caused by inodes xarray race There is a race condition between inode eviction and inode caching that can cause a live struct btrfsinode to be missing from the root-inodes xarray. Specifically,...