CVE-2026-98141

Summary

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

ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure

update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of set_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes the just-written reparse data as cleanup but still returns 0, so symlink(2) (and WSL special file creation) reports success while no reparse data exists on disk. When there was no previous reparse data (oldsize == 0), the failure was likewise silently ignored.

Propagate the error to the caller.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxfc053f05ca282a5e760b41f6560ac835c4e28037 < c62f446c63398dc7151f413069bf617032cf7a71affected
LinuxLinuxfc053f05ca282a5e760b41f6560ac835c4e28037 < 9692b1b4fc00cf89628bc43f71729ab21f14f8d3affected
LinuxLinux7.1affected
LinuxLinux0 < 7.1unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2.7 <= 7.2.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.3-rc2 <= *unaffected

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