CVE-2026-98223 PUBLISHED

mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios

Fault-around can map ready dropbehind folios without going through the normal page-cache lookup that clears dropbehind. A mapping represents a competing cached user, so retain the folio instead of forcibly unmapping it when writeback completes.

For a mapped folio, folio_unmap_invalidate() can call unmap_mapping_folio(), which takes i_mmap_rwsem and may sleep. Retaining mapped folios avoids this path when folio_end_dropbehind() runs in non-preemptible task context.

Tal was able to trigger a sleeping-in-atomic warning due to this [1].

Unmapped dropbehind folios continue through the existing invalidation path.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from fb7d3bc4149395c1ae99029c852eab6c28fc3c88 to 2897601dffe576fcd87a4259102f41f7fb0cbfc8 (excl.)
  • affected from fb7d3bc4149395c1ae99029c852eab6c28fc3c88 to 77c0fade37c80e8aa16ac048a9828249055e3f66 (excl.)
  • affected from fb7d3bc4149395c1ae99029c852eab6c28fc3c88 to 848d2ce2fce15fbdc083fbf9691bfa72911033c4 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.14 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.14 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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