CVE-2024-43898 is invalid?

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Subject: CVE-2024-43898 is invalid?
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 11:31:44 -0400

I believe CVE-2024-43898 regarding "ext4: sanity check for NULL
pointer after ext4_force_shutdown" (commit id: 83f4414b8f84) may have
been issued in error.

ext4_force_shutdown() is called from FS_IOC_SHUTDOWN, which requires
root privileges.

Cheers,

						- Ted

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