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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2026· Updated May 7, 2026

CVE-2026-31589

CVE-2026-31589

Description

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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