# CVE-2025-22073: spufs: fix a leak on spufs\_new\_file() failure

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-04-16 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.16

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spufs: fix a leak on spufs_new_file() failure It's called from spufs_fill_dir(), and caller of that will do spufs_rmdir() in case of failure. That does remove everything we'd managed to create, but... the problem dentry is still negative. IOW, it needs to be explicitly dropped.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1eef06d10c1a9848e3a762919bbbe315a0a7cb4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/132925bd6772d7614340fb755ac5415462ac8edd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/53b189651c33b5f1fb3b755e6a37a8206978514e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96de7fbdc2dcadeebc17c3cb89e7cdab487bfce0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90d1b276d1b1379d20ad27d1f6349ba9f44a2e00
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35f789ccebd69f6f9a1e0a9b85435003b2450065
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d791985ceeb081155b4e96d314ca54c7605dcbe0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bd56e4e72c354b65c0a7e5ac1c09eca81949d5b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1ca8698ca1332625d83ea0d753747be66f9906d

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