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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-68086"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:51:40.304Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-10T11:51:40.304Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-68086"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68086.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68086"
title: "mm/khugepaged: write all dirty file folios when collapsing"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/khugepaged: write all dirty file folios when collapsing\n\n[There is no upstream commit, as this code was removed by upstream\n commit 044925f9b565 (\"mm: fs: remove filemap_nr_thps*() functions and their users\")]\n\nAs-is, khugepaged and writable-file opening exclude each other. A file\ncannot be open writeable and have THPs (because the filesystem is not aware\nof them). khugepaged will never collapse file pages for files that are\nopened writeable. On an open(O_RDWR/O_WRONLY), the page cache for that\nparticular file is dropped. This is fine because nothing could've been\ndirtied.\n\nHowever, there is an edge-case: collapse_file() might not be able to\ncoexist with concurrent writers, but it can coexist with dirty folios\n(from previous writers). Therefore, the following can happen:\n\nopen(file, O_RDWR)\nwrite(file)\nclose(file)\nmadvise(file_mapping, MADV_COLLAPSE, some non-dirty range)\nopen(file, O_RDWR)\n nr_thps \u003e 0\n  truncate_inode_pages()\n    /* THPs are cleared out, but so are the dirty folios */\n\nWhen this edge-case happens, there is data loss, as the dirty folios are\nfully discarded.\n\nFix it by fully writing back the page cache (and waiting) when collapsing\nfile THPs. Doing so provides the guarantee that no dirty folio will be\nobserved while there are active THPs. To fully ensure this is safe, the\ninvalidate_lock needs to be held while doing the writeout, so that\ndo_dentry_open()'s page cache truncation excludes this write-and-wait.\n\nAs a side effect, move the nr_thps counter bumping outside the i_pages\nlock. This is correct since the counter itself is an atomic_t and the\nproducer \u003c-\u003e consumer correctness is provided by a full memory barrier:\nsmp_mb() in collapse_file()/memory barrier implied by full ordering in\nget_write_access() -\u003e atomic_inc_unless_negative()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"99cb0dbd47a15d395bf3faa78dc122bc5efe3fc0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2dfe9f5c91d0963058f8a5e46e1c2a908382cc46"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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