CVE-2025-71184

Medium

Description

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 btrfs_evict_inode() the root might be NULL, as implied in the next check that we do in btrfs_evict_inode(). Hence, we either should set the ->root_objectid to 0 in case the root is NULL, or we move tracing setup after checking that the root is not NULL. Setting the rootid to 0 at least gives us the possibility to trace this call even in the case when the root is NULL, so that's the solution taken here.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedJan 31, 2026
First seenJan 31, 2026

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel2.6.39.1 ≤ v < 6.6.130, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.12.66, 6.13 ≤ v < 6.18.6, 2.6.39, 6.196.6.130, 6.12.66, 6.18.6

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