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

xfs: fail recovery on a committed log item with no regions

If the first op of a transaction is a bare transaction header
(len == sizeof(struct xfs_trans_header)), xlog_recover_add_to_trans()
adds an item but no region, leaving it on r_itemq with ri_cnt == 0 and
ri_buf == NULL.

The header can be split across op records, so later ops may still add
regions; the item is only invalid if the transaction commits with none.
The runtime commit path never emits such a transaction, so this only
happens on a crafted log. It came from an AI-assisted code audit of the
recovery parser.

xlog_recover_reorder_trans() calls ITEM_TYPE() on the item, which reads
*(unsigned short *)item->ri_buf[0].iov_base and faults on the NULL
ri_buf. Reject it there, before the commit handlers that also read
ri_buf[0].

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
RIP: 0010:xlog_recover_reorder_trans (fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c:1836)
xlog_recover_commit_trans (fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c:2043)
xlog_recover_process_data (fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c:2501)
xlog_do_recovery_pass (fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c:3244)
xlog_recover (fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c:3493)
xfs_log_mount (fs/xfs/xfs_log.c:618)
xfs_mountfs (fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c:1034)
xfs_fs_fill_super (fs/xfs/xfs_super.c:1938)
vfs_get_tree (fs/super.c:1695)
path_mount (fs/namespace.c:4161)
__x64_sys_mount (fs/namespace.c:4367)