ntfs3 driver

The Linux kernel received a small but important fix that eliminates an uninitialized-memory warning in the in-kernel NTFS driver (ntfs3): the buffer allocated by __getname was not being zeroed before use, and the upstream remedy initializes that buffer to prevent KMSAN-detected uninitialized...

A new kernel fix quietly landed this week that closes a subtle NTFS metadata handling issue in the in‑kernel ntfs3 driver: CVE‑2025‑40313, described as “ntfs3: pretend $Extend records as regular files.” The change is small in code but important in principle — it corrects how the driver...