CVE-2026-98685

smb: client: discard post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via clone range

N/A
Published: October 18, 2026 at 03:45 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:19 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: discard post-EOF pagecache when extending a file via clone range cifs_remap_file_range() discarded the pagecache only for the folios overlapping the destination region, so when a clone extends the file the folio straddling the old EOF - which may hold data dirtied past EOF through an mmap - was never dropped and became visible as file content once the file was extended. Start the discard at the smaller of fstart and the old EOF. i_size is still old here, so nothing past the old EOF is flushed to the server.

Affected

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

358bd5f436d820bb758833050aae065b35d6986c43801359c8971cc49b4a4db5015fba77fbd09c326.1.686.6.76.7c54fc3a4f375663f2361a9cbb2955fb4ef912879
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)

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