CVE-2026-98223

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.