CVE-2025-21679
kernel: btrfs: add the missing error handling inside get_canonical_dev_path
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · January 31, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: add the missing error handling inside get_canonical_dev_path
Inside function get_canonical_dev_path(), we call d_path() to get the final device path.
But d_path() can return error, and in that case the next strscpy() call will trigger an invalid memory access.
Add back the missing error handling for d_path().
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-253 · Incorrect Check of Function Return Value