Bug 2536644 (CVE-2026-92487) - CVE-2026-92487 kernel: exfat: fix valid_size extension over a shared writable mapping
Summary: CVE-2026-92487 kernel: exfat: fix valid_size extension over a shared writable...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-92487
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 19:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 11:15 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 19:01:39 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exfat: fix valid_size extension over a shared writable mapping

When a shared writable mapping has its valid_size extended by a buffered
write or a page fault, exfat zeroes the page-cache gap below the new
valid_size. A store through the mapping can race with this zeroing and be
overwritten.

Fix this by zeroing the gap lazily. Drop ->map_pages so that every first
write fault goes through exfat_page_mkwrite(), which advances valid_size to
cover the faulting page. With fault-around enabled, a store could install a
writable PTE, skip ->page_mkwrite(), and land past valid_size without
advancing it. Extending valid_size one faulting page at a time also leaves
never-written pages in a large mapping alone.

The gap is filled with block granularity, zeroing only the not-uptodate
blocks and preserving blocks that may hold data stored through the mapping.
On the buffered-write path the invalidate lock is held and the gap is
unmapped before zeroing, so a racing store re-faults and, under the inode
lock, completes only after the gap has been zeroed and valid_size covers
it.


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