Bug 2546455 (CVE-2026-98223) - CVE-2026-98223 kernel: mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios
Summary: CVE-2026-98223 kernel: mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98223
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-06 09:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-09 13:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-06 09:23:22 UTC
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.


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