CVE-2026-98685 PUBLISHED

smb: client: discard post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via clone range

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

smb: client: discard post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via clone range

cifs_remap_file_range() discarded the pagecache only for the folios overlapping the destination region, so when a clone extends the file the folio straddling the old EOF - which may hold data dirtied past EOF through an mmap - was never dropped and became visible as file content once the file was extended.

Start the discard at the smaller of fstart and the old EOF. i_size is still old here, so nothing past the old EOF is flushed to the server.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from c54fc3a4f375663f2361a9cbb2955fb4ef912879 to 15bb9f1d3e967e328649e92a1451e60a0dc66118 (excl.)
  • affected from c54fc3a4f375663f2361a9cbb2955fb4ef912879 to 4721587f96cb8de8164f3fd203093a0875560999 (excl.)
  • Version 358bd5f436d820bb758833050aae065b35d6986c is affected
  • Version 43801359c8971cc49b4a4db5015fba77fbd09c32 is affected
  • affected from 6.1.68 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.6.7 to 6.7 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.7 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.7 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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