---
id: CVE-2026-98141
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure

  update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of
  set_reparse_index()
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure

  update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of
  set_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes
  the…
severity: none
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
affected:
  - >-
    Linux >= fc053f05ca282a5e760b41f6560ac835c4e28037 <
    c62f446c63398dc7151f413069bf617032cf7a71
  - >-
    Linux >= fc053f05ca282a5e760b41f6560ac835c4e28037 <
    9692b1b4fc00cf89628bc43f71729ab21f14f8d3
  - Linux 7.1
published: '2026-09-25'
updated: '2026-09-25'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-25T11:17:45.603'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98141'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9692b1b4fc00cf89628bc43f71729ab21f14f8d3'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c62f446c63398dc7151f413069bf617032cf7a71'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
ingestedAt: '2026-09-25T11:06:38.809Z'
---

## Overview

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

ntfs: propagate reparse index insertion failure

update_reparse_data() ignores the return value of
set_reparse_index(). When index insertion fails, the code removes
the just-written reparse data as cleanup but still returns 0, so
symlink(2) (and WSL special file creation) reports success while
no reparse data exists on disk. When there was no previous reparse
data (oldsize == 0), the failure was likewise silently ignored.

Propagate the error to the caller.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.