NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-docs-html package, versions <6.12.0-160000.27.1

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ceph: fix NULL pointer dereference in ceph_mds_auth_match()

The CephFS kernel client has regression starting from 6.18-rc1. We have issue in ceph_mds_auth_match() if fs_name == NULL:

const char fs_name = mdsc->fsc->mount_options->mds_namespace;
...
if (auth->match.fs_name && strcmp(auth->match.fs_name, fs_name)) {
        / fsname mismatch, try next one */
        return 0;
}

Patrick Donnelly suggested that: In summary, we should definitely start decoding fs_name from the MDSMap and do strict authorizations checks against it. Note that the -o mds_namespace=foo should only be used for selecting the file system to mount and nothing else. It's possible no mds_namespace is specified but the kernel will mount the only file system that exists which may have name "foo".

This patch reworks ceph_mdsmap_decode() and namespace_equals() with the goal of supporting the suggested concept. Now struct ceph_mdsmap contains m_fs_name field that receives copy of extracted FS name by ceph_extract_encoded_string(). For the case of "old" CephFS file systems, it is used "cephfs" name.

[ idryomov: replace redundant %*pE with %s in ceph_mdsmap_decode(), get rid of a series of strlen() calls in ceph_namespace_match(), drop changes to namespace_equals() body to avoid treating empty mds_namespace as equal, drop changes to ceph_mdsc_handle_fsmap() as namespace_equals() isn't an equivalent substitution there ]

• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23189.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1258308
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57b36ffc8881dd455d875f85c105901974af2130
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7987cce375ac8ce98e170a77aa2399f2cf6eb99f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6f8326f26bd20d648d9a55afd68148d1b6afe28