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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path syzbot reported kmemleak as below: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32): comm "a.out", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81b16052>] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8164aaa7>] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430 [<ffffffff81626dd4>] path_mount+0x704/0x1080 [<ffffffff81627e7c>] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0 [<ffffffff84593e14>] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of ntfs_fill_super().

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-09-17 | Published 2025-10-01 | Updated 2025-10-01 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 2dd9ccfb06bcdad30ad92d96c3affa38a458679e
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before ff0df7d9cdbb12878155168b5234e99029e5377f
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 2600c80ea7b39f987c3fa89287e73d62e322bbbd
affected

1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 before 51e76a232f8c037f1d9e9922edc25b003d5f3414
affected

Default status
affected

5.15.87
unaffected

6.0.17
unaffected

6.1.3
unaffected

6.2
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/2dd9ccfb06bcdad30ad92d96c3affa38a458679e

git.kernel.org/...c/ff0df7d9cdbb12878155168b5234e99029e5377f

git.kernel.org/...c/2600c80ea7b39f987c3fa89287e73d62e322bbbd

git.kernel.org/...c/51e76a232f8c037f1d9e9922edc25b003d5f3414

cve.org (CVE-2022-50451)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2022-50451)

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