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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31703"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-01T13:56:02.415Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-20T12:32:00.881Z"
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-2026-31703"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31703.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31703"
title: "writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nwriteback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn()\n\ninode_switch_wbs_work_fn() has a loop like:\n\n  wb_get(new_wb);\n  while (1) {\n    list = llist_del_all(&new_wb-\u003eswitch_wbs_ctxs);\n    /* Nothing to do? */\n    if (!list)\n      break;\n    ... process the items ...\n  }\n\nNow adding of items to the list looks like:\n\nwb_queue_isw()\n  if (llist_add(&isw-\u003elist, &wb-\u003eswitch_wbs_ctxs))\n    queue_work(isw_wq, &wb-\u003eswitch_work);\n\nBecause inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() loops when processing isw items, it\ncan happen that wb-\u003eswitch_work is pending while wb-\u003eswitch_wbs_ctxs is\nempty. This is a problem because in that case wb can get freed (no isw\nitems -\u003e no wb reference) while the work is still pending causing\nuse-after-free issues.\n\nWe cannot just fix this by cancelling work when freeing wb because that\ncould still trigger problematic 0 -\u003e 1 transitions on wb refcount due to\nwb_get() in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn(). It could be all handled with\nmore careful code but that seems unnecessarily complex so let's avoid\nthat until it is proven that the looping actually brings practical\nbenefit. Just remove the loop from inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() instead.\nThat way when wb_queue_isw() queues work, we are guaranteed we have\nadded the first item to wb-\u003eswitch_wbs_ctxs and nobody is going to\nremove it (and drop the wb reference it holds) until the queued work\nruns."
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