Bug 2467163 (CVE-2026-43245) - CVE-2026-43245 kernel: ntfs: ->d_compare() must not block
Summary: CVE-2026-43245 kernel: ntfs: ->d_compare() must not block
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-43245
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-06 13:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-06 23:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-06 13:07:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: ->d_compare() must not block

... so don't use __getname() there.  Switch it (and ntfs_d_hash(), while
we are at it) to kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_NOWAIT).  Yes, ntfs_d_hash()
almost certainly can do with smaller allocations, but let ntfs folks
deal with that - keep the allocation size as-is for now.

Stop abusing names_cachep in ntfs, period - various uses of that thing
in there have nothing to do with pathnames; just use k[mz]alloc() and
be done with that.  For now let's keep sizes as-in, but AFAICS none of
the users actually want PATH_MAX.


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