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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31702"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T13:56:01.601Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:43:43.186Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31702"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31702.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31702"
title: "f2fs: fix use-after-free of sbi in f2fs_compress_write_end_io()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix use-after-free of sbi in f2fs_compress_write_end_io()\n\nIn f2fs_compress_write_end_io(), dec_page_count(sbi, type) can bring\nthe F2FS_WB_CP_DATA counter to zero, unblocking\nf2fs_wait_on_all_pages() in f2fs_put_super() on a concurrent unmount\nCPU. The unmount path then proceeds to call\nf2fs_destroy_page_array_cache(sbi), which destroys\nsbi-\u003epage_array_slab via kmem_cache_destroy(), and eventually\nkfree(sbi). Meanwhile, the bio completion callback is still executing:\nwhen it reaches page_array_free(sbi, ...), it dereferences\nsbi-\u003epage_array_slab — a destroyed slab cache — to call\nkmem_cache_free(), causing a use-after-free.\n\nThis is the same class of bug as CVE-2026-23234 (which fixed the\nequivalent race in f2fs_write_end_io() in data.c), but in the\ncompressed writeback completion path that was not covered by that fix.\n\nFix this by moving dec_page_count() to after page_array_free(), so\nthat all sbi accesses complete before the counter decrement that can\nunblock unmount. For non-last folios (where atomic_dec_return on\ncic-\u003epending_pages is nonzero), dec_page_count is called immediately\nbefore returning — page_array_free is not reached on this path, so\nthere is no post-decrement sbi access. For the last folio,\npage_array_free runs while the F2FS_WB_CP_DATA counter is still\nnonzero (this folio has not yet decremented it), keeping sbi alive,\nand dec_page_count runs as the final operation."
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