CVE-2025-71184

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's Btrfs filesystem. When evicting an inode in btrfsevictinode, the tracing setup code attempts to fetch the root's ID before checking if the root pointer is NULL. This can cause a kernel crash when the inode's root is NULL...

CVE-2025-71184

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 btrfsevictinode the root might be NULL, as...