CVE-2025-71072

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's shmem (tmpfs) filesystem rename operation. Under severe memory pressure, the maple_tree insertion used during file rename can fail, and the error recovery path does not properly handle this failure. This can leave the filesystem directory offset tree in an inconsistent state.

Triggering this vulnerability requires extreme memory exhaustion conditions during tmpfs rename operations. Normal system operation with adequate memory is unaffected. The filesystem inconsistency could cause subsequent directory operations to fail unexpectedly.

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