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CVE-2025-38701

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

ext4: do not BUG when INLINE_DATA_FL lacks system.data xattr

A syzbot fuzzed image triggered a BUG_ON in ext4_update_inline_data()
when an inode had the INLINE_DATA_FL flag set but was missing the
system.data extended attribute.

Since this can happen due to a maiciouly fuzzed file system, we
shouldn’t BUG, but rather, report it as a corrupted file system.

Add similar replacements of BUG_ON with EXT4_ERROR_INODE() ii
ext4_create_inline_data() and ext4_inline_data_truncate().

More information : https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/099b847ccc6c1ad2f805d13cfbcc83f5b6d4bc42

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