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Linux Linux — fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0016 6.1 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 78ab59fee07f22464f32eafebab2bd97ba94ff2d – —
Linux 5.15 – 6.6.102
TIMELINE
Apr 16 Reserved by Linux
Aug 19 Published (CNA: Linux)
Jul 30 RESCORED — CVE-2025-38615 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: cancle set bad inode after removing name fails
The reproducer uses a file0 on a ntfs3 file system with a corrupted i_link.
When renaming, the file0's inode is marked as a bad inode because the file
name cannot be deleted.
The underlying bug is that make_bad_inode() is called on a live inode.
In some cases it's "icache lookup finds a normal inode, d_splice_alias()
is called to attach it to dentry, while another thread decides to call
make_bad_inode() on it - that would evict it from icache, but we'd already
found it there earlier".
In some it's outright "we have an inode attached to dentry - that's how we
got it in the first place; let's call make_bad_inode() on it just for shits
and giggles".
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| April 16, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| August 19, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| July 30, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2025-38615 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 78ab59fee07f22464f32eafebab2bd97ba94ff2d | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.15 | 6.6.102 |
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