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: ffff8880259…