CVE-2026-74414
Description
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: Remove the duplicate attr inode dirty marking action
Syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref in [1].
If the attributes file is not loaded during system mount, a trigger
occurs [1] when setxattr is executed in userspace.
Remove the first mark attr inode dirty operation.
[1]
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
Call Trace:
hfsplus_setxattr+0x124/0x340 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:555
hfsplus_trusted_setxattr+0x40/0x60 fs/hfsplus/xattr_trusted.c:30
__vfs_setxattr+0x43c/0x480 fs/xattr.c:218
__vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x12d/0x660 fs/xattr.c:252
vfs_setxattr+0x163/0x360 fs/xattr.c:339
do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:654 [inline]
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a41fd2b32e5908f19a68732008d581c167279dd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3c7ccb1a93cbb5a9a13196abf608ffa2516817e