CVE-2026-89755

mm/migrate_device: clear stale mapping after freeing swapcache

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 11, 2026 at 07:46 PM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.6df263d9a7dffee94ca5391120ee3b0587efa07f1
Vendor states this is fixed in 34a00895d032a414830d41106a09329ae6c251b6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4fa91f7bbc4135240b67daac03fc17d9e180a331 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8ffedc6573a665cdc31ebe47eae7b32b78d0df83 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.111 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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