Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 6, 2026· Updated May 12, 2026
CVE-2025-71271
CVE-2025-71271
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up
When hfsplus 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 hfsplus_fill_super() takes ownership of the filesystem-specific s_fs_info data it was leaked.
Fix this by freeing sb->s_fs_info in hfsplus_kill_super().
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