Bug 2440655 (CVE-2025-71230) - CVE-2025-71230 kernel: hfs: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up
Summary: CVE-2025-71230 kernel: hfs: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71230
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-02-18 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-02-19 09:39 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-02-18 16:02:33 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hfs: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up

When hfs was converted to the new mount api a bug was introduced by
changing the allocation pattern of sb->s_fs_info. If setup_bdev_super()
fails after a new superblock has been allocated by sget_fc(), but before
hfs_fill_super() takes ownership of the filesystem-specific s_fs_info
data it was leaked.

Fix this by freeing sb->s_fs_info in hfs_kill_super().


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