CVE-2026-98223

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Description

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.

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-10-06 09:18:09.290000

Last modified

2026-10-19 10:18:23.073000

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{
  "id": "CVE-2026-98223",
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-10-06T09:18:09.290",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-19T10:18:23.073",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios\n\nFault-around can map ready dropbehind folios without going through the\nnormal page-cache lookup that clears dropbehind.  A mapping represents a\ncompeting cached user, so retain the folio instead of forcibly unmapping\nit when writeback completes.\n\nFor a mapped folio, folio_unmap_invalidate() can call\nunmap_mapping_folio(), which takes i_mmap_rwsem and may sleep.  Retaining\nmapped folios avoids this path when folio_end_dropbehind() runs in\nnon-preemptible task context.\n\nTal was able to trigger a sleeping-in-atomic warning due to this [1].\n\nUnmapped dropbehind folios continue through the existing invalidation path."
    }
  ],
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