Bug 2461515 (CVE-2026-31589) - CVE-2026-31589 kernel: mm: call ->free_folio() directly in folio_unmap_invalidate()
Summary: CVE-2026-31589 kernel: mm: call ->free_folio() directly in folio_unmap_invali...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-31589
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-04-24 15:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-04-27 12:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 15:06:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: call ->free_folio() directly in folio_unmap_invalidate()

We can only call filemap_free_folio() if we have a reference to (or hold a
lock on) the mapping.  Otherwise, we've already removed the folio from the
mapping so it no longer pins the mapping and the mapping can be removed,
causing a use-after-free when accessing mapping->a_ops.

Follow the same pattern as __remove_mapping() and load the free_folio
function pointer before dropping the lock on the mapping.  That lets us
make filemap_free_folio() static as this was the only caller outside
filemap.c.


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