Bug 2482130 (CVE-2025-71312) - CVE-2025-71312 kernel: fs/ntfs3: fix ntfs_mount_options leak in ntfs_fill_super()
Summary: CVE-2025-71312 kernel: fs/ntfs3: fix ntfs_mount_options leak in ntfs_fill_sup...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71312
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-27 15:12 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-28 20:11 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 15:12:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: fix ntfs_mount_options leak in ntfs_fill_super()

In ntfs_fill_super(), the fc->fs_private pointer is set to NULL without
first freeing the memory it points to. This causes the subsequent call to
ntfs_fs_free() to skip freeing the ntfs_mount_options structure.

This results in a kmemleak report:

  unreferenced object 0xff1100015378b800 (size 32):
    comm "mount", pid 582, jiffies 4294890685
    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 04 00 00  ................
    backtrace (crc ed541d8c):
      __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x424/0x5a0
      __ntfs_init_fs_context+0x47/0x590
      alloc_fs_context+0x5d8/0x960
      __x64_sys_fsopen+0xb1/0x190
      do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1f0
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

This issue can be reproduced using the following commands:
        fallocate -l 100M test.file
        mount test.file /tmp/test

Since sbi->options is duplicated from fc->fs_private and does not
directly use the memory allocated for fs_private, it is unnecessary to
set fc->fs_private to NULL.

Additionally, this patch simplifies the code by utilizing the helper
function put_mount_options() instead of open-coding the cleanup logic.


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