Affected: Linux

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

nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry()

Syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref bug:

NILFS (loop0): segctord starting. Construction interval = 5 seconds, CP frequency < 30 seconds general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017] CPU: 1 PID: 3603 Comm: segctord Not tainted 6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller-00105-gb229b6ca5abb #0 Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/11/2022 RIP: 0010:nilfs_palloc_commit_free_entry+0xe5/0x6b0 fs/nilfs2/alloc.c:608 Code: 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 cd 05 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b 73 08 49 8d 7e 10 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 26 05 00 00 49 8b 46 10 be a6 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003dff830 EFLAGS: 00010212 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88802594e218 RCX: 000000000000000d RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000002000 RDI: 0000000000000010 RBP: ffff888071880222 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 000000000000003f R10: 000000000000000d R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888071880158 R13: ffff88802594e220 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000004 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007fb1c08316a8 CR3: 0000000018560000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 Call T…