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CVE-2025-71292
Summary

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

jfs: nlink overflow in jfs_rename

If nlink is maximal for a directory (-1) and inside that directory you
perform a rename for some child directory (not moving from the parent),
then the nlink of the first directory is first incremented and later
decremented. Normally this is fine, but when nlink = -1 this causes a
wrap around to 0, and then drop_nlink issues a warning.

After applying the patch syzbot no longer issues any warnings. I also
ran some basic fs tests to look for any regressions.

Publication Date May 6, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
Registration Date May 7, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
Last Update May 6, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
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