CVE-2026-74414

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

hfsplus: Remove the duplicate attr inode dirty marking action

Syzbot reported a null-ptr-deref in [1].
If the attributes file is not loaded during system mount, a trigger
occurs [1] when setxattr is executed in userspace.

Remove the first mark attr inode dirty operation.

[1]
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
Call Trace:
 hfsplus_setxattr+0x124/0x340 fs/hfsplus/xattr.c:555
 hfsplus_trusted_setxattr+0x40/0x60 fs/hfsplus/xattr_trusted.c:30
 __vfs_setxattr+0x43c/0x480 fs/xattr.c:218
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x12d/0x660 fs/xattr.c:252
 vfs_setxattr+0x163/0x360 fs/xattr.c:339
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:654 [inline]