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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 25, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025

btrfs: fix iteration of extrefs during log replay

CVE-2025-38382

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix iteration of extrefs during log replay

At __inode_add_ref() when processing extrefs, if we jump into the next label we have an undefined value of victim_name.len, since we haven't initialized it before we did the goto. This results in an invalid memory access in the next iteration of the loop since victim_name.len was not initialized to the length of the name of the current extref.

Fix this by initializing victim_name.len with the current extref's name length.

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