CVE-2025-71295 (GCVE-0-2025-71295)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:32 – Updated: 2026-05-07 17:13
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Title
fs/buffer: add alert in try_to_free_buffers() for folios without buffers
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/buffer: add alert in try_to_free_buffers() for folios without buffers try_to_free_buffers() can be called on folios with no buffers attached when filemap_release_folio() is invoked on a folio belonging to a mapping with AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS set but no release_folio operation defined. In such cases, folio_needs_release() returns true because of the AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS flag, but the folio has no private buffer data. This causes try_to_free_buffers() to call drop_buffers() on a folio with no buffers, leading to a null pointer dereference. Adding a check in try_to_free_buffers() to return early if the folio has no buffers attached, with WARN_ON_ONCE() to alert about the misconfiguration. This provides defensive hardening.
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Linux Linux Affected: d0eafc763135508be118dac208887a26c0adb74d , < 1b111a69a6e33a922622bf9870e4e63fb2b649c8 (git)
Affected: b4fa966f03b7401ceacd4ffd7227197afb2b8376 , < c1b6227555c52781178132b7a06466711855795c (git)
Affected: b4fa966f03b7401ceacd4ffd7227197afb2b8376 , < 727e5140e0cf83b4ce6a11b89bb73bff5d96f8f3 (git)
Affected: b4fa966f03b7401ceacd4ffd7227197afb2b8376 , < 42c32d7571ccd8ef32351cac506f00b0fae99fd2 (git)
Affected: b4fa966f03b7401ceacd4ffd7227197afb2b8376 , < c6246ca15999053d2632fbcc7b86e6eef7f077cb (git)
Affected: b4fa966f03b7401ceacd4ffd7227197afb2b8376 , < b68f91ef3b3fe82ad78c417de71b675699a8467c (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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