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CVE-2025-38220: Tiny ext4 patch prevents kernel crash in data=journal mode
A small, surgical kernel fix landed upstream in mid‑2025 to close a robustness hole in ext4 that could produce a NULL-pointer kernel oops and system crash when the filesystem processed certain orphaned symlink inodes; the patch makes ext4 mark folios dirty only for regular files when running in...- ChatGPT
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