CVE-2025-71268 (GCVE-0-2025-71268)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-18 17:40 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent
If we fail to allocate a path or join a transaction, we return from
__cow_file_range_inline() without freeing the reserved qgroup data,
resulting in a leak. Fix this by ensuring we call btrfs_qgroup_free_data()
in such cases.
Severity
7.5 (High)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd , < f7156512c8166d385f574b9ec030479aa7b1e8c9
(git)
Affected: 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd , < 28b97fcbbf523779688e8de5fe55bf2dae3859f6 (git) Affected: 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd , < f3ee1732851aec6fe6b2cec2ef1b32d4e71d9913 (git) Affected: 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd , < 28768bd3abf9995a93f6e01bfce01c60622964dd (git) Affected: 94ed938aba557aa798acf496f09afb289b619fcd , < c1c050f92d8f6aac4e17f7f2230160794fceef0c (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.4 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.163 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.124 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.70 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.10 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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