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Change History

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

fs/9p: fix uninitialized values during inode evict

If an iget fails due to not being able to retrieve information
from the server then the inode structure is only partially
initialized.  When the inode gets evicted, references to
uninitialized structures (like fscache cookies) were being
made.

This patch checks for a bad_inode before doing anything other
than clearing the inode from the cache.  Since the inode is
bad, it shou

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4cb6e91f19b81217ad98142ee53a1ab25893fd [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6630036b7c228f57c7893ee0403e92c2db2cd21d [No types assigned]