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FKIE_CVE-2026-89841

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-16 11:16 - Updated: 2026-09-16 15:18

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: only redirty pinned folios in redirty_blocks redirty_blocks() pins folios with read_cache_folio() and then walks the same range again with filemap_lock_folio() to redirty them and drop the references it took. Commit 5951fee46bef ("f2fs: Use a folio in redirty_blocks()") changed the second pass to a do/while loop. If read_cache_folio() fails before anything is pinned, page_idx does not advance but the cleanup loop still runs once. If readahead has already populated the failed folio in page cache, that extra iteration finds it and folio_put_refs(folio, 2) drops one reference too many. Later drop_caches or reclaim can then report "BUG: Bad page state". Only redirty the range that was pinned successfully.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/445e4a1e6025ecd5312e9a95c1b234192c976ca1
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85171332742e741ccd6f401c69b6e0d698119e72
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89c65ec3c18903de763cf567c96ab3ef60e5f3b0

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-89841 (GCVE-0-2026-89841)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 10:31 – Updated: 2026-09-16 14:39

Title

f2fs: only redirty pinned folios in redirty_blocks

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/445e4a1e6025ecd53…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89c65ec3c18903de7…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85171332742e741cc…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5951fee46befbf6176c86482432f4f76e522f16c , < 445e4a1e6025ecd5312e9a95c1b234192c976ca1 (git) Affected: 5951fee46befbf6176c86482432f4f76e522f16c , < 89c65ec3c18903de763cf567c96ab3ef60e5f3b0 (git) Affected: 5951fee46befbf6176c86482432f4f76e522f16c , < 85171332742e741ccd6f401c69b6e0d698119e72 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.51 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.5 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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