Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025
fs/ntfs3: provide block_invalidate_folio to fix memory leak
CVE-2022-49550
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: provide block_invalidate_folio to fix memory leak
The ntfs3 filesystem lacks the 'invalidate_folio' method and it causes memory leak. If you write to the filesystem and then unmount it, the cached written data are not freed and they are permanently leaked.
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