Bug 2541337 (CVE-2026-98141) - CVE-2026-98141 kernel: ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure
Summary: CVE-2026-98141 kernel: ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98141
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-25 11:27 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-28 15:37 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 11:27:23 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure

update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of
set_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes
the just-written reparse data as cleanup but still returns 0, so
symlink(2) (and WSL special file creation) reports success while
no reparse data exists on disk. When there was no previous reparse
data (oldsize == 0), the failure was likewise silently ignored.

Propagate the error to the caller.


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