High severity · published Sep 11, 2026
CVE-2026-89755
mm/migrate_device: clear stale mapping after freeing swapcache
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/migrate_device: clear stale mapping after freeing swapcache
__migrate_device_pages() reads the folio mapping before calling
folio_free_swap(). When folio_free_swap() succeeds, the folio is removed
from the swap cache, but the saved mapping still points to swap_space.
Passing the stale mapping to folio_migrate_mapping() makes it use the
mapped-folio path for a folio that is no longer in swapcache. It can then
operate on swap_space.i_pages with invalid reference accounting,
eventually triggering a folio reference count BUG.
After a successful split, nr still contains the number of pages in the
original large folio, although each resulting page is now a separate
order-0 folio. Reset nr to 1 so each split folio is processed separately,
including its own swapcache removal and mapping lookup.
Refresh the saved mapping after folio_free_swap() so the current folio
state is used during migration.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 5% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
df263d9a7dffee94ca5391120ee3b0587efa07f1 before 92db780dd644590c751246187e1229d5ac2e5544; df263d9a7dffee94ca5391120ee3b0587efa07f1 before 4fa91f7bbc4135240b67daac03fc17d9e180a331; df263d9a7dffee94ca5391120ee3b0587efa07f1 before 8ffedc6573a665cdc31ebe47eae7b32b78d0df83; df263d9a7dffee94ca5391120ee3b0587efa07f1 before 34a00895d032a414830d41106a09329ae6c251b6; 6.6 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89755
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89755
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34a00895d032a414830d41106a09329ae6c251b6
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fa91f7bbc4135240b67daac03fc17d9e180a331
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ffedc6573a665cdc31ebe47eae7b32b78d0df83
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92db780dd644590c751246187e1229d5ac2e5544
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