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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-74482" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T12:27:15.083Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:49.129Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-74482" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74482.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74482" title: "mm/huge_memory: unlock i_mmap_rwsem before releasing after-split folios" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/huge_memory: unlock i_mmap_rwsem before releasing after-split folios\n\n__folio_split() keeps dereferencing the mapping after the split:\nshmem_uncharge(mapping-\u003ehost) and remap_page() while the folios are still\nfrozen/locked, and i_mmap_unlock_read(mapping) at the very end, after the\nafter-split folios have been unlocked and freed.\n\nNothing holds an inode reference across that. The split relies on @folio\n-- which the beyond-EOF drop loop never removes, as it starts at\nfolio_next(folio) -- staying locked and in the page cache to hold off\neviction. But the unlock loop unlocks @folio before i_mmap_unlock_read()\nruns. If the caller's @lock_at is a tail beyond EOF, as memory_failure()\npasses when splitting a poisoned tail of a shmem THP that reaches past\ni_size during truncation, it too is gone from the page cache; so once\n@folio is unlocked no locked, in-cache folio pins the inode, and a\nconcurrent final iput() can evict and RCU-free it before\ni_mmap_unlock_read() touches i_mmap_rwsem:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __up_read+0x634/0x790\n i_mmap_unlock_read include/linux/fs.h:537 [inline]\n __folio_split+0x732/0x1640 mm/huge_memory.c:4100\n try_to_split_thp_page+0xab/0x390 mm/memory-failure.c:1675\n memory_failure+0x1394/0x26e0 mm/memory-failure.c:2470\n\n Freed by task 4601:\n shmem_free_in_core_inode+0x54/0xb0 mm/shmem.c:5177\n evict+0x57f/0xac0 fs/inode.c:870\n\nDo every mapping dereference while @folio still pins the inode: drop\ni_mmap_rwsem right after remap_page(), before the loop that unlocks and\nfrees the after-split folios, and clear @mapping so the exit path does not\nunlock it again. shmem_uncharge() and remap_page() already run before\nthat point, so after this nothing past the unlock loop touches the inode\nor the mapping.\n\nThis is now a rule the split depends on, alongside keeping @folio frozen\nuntil the page cache is updated: no inode or mapping dereference once the\nafter-split folios start being unlocked." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"baa355fd331424526e742d41d9b90d5f9d10f716","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc2f5eabaaf60ec18da70b619a8fba1bfb7dea3a"},{"version":"baa355fd331424526e742d41d9b90d5f9d10f716","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f87c08060818ebb19bafed37c38244538da25097"},{"version":"baa355fd331424526e742d41d9b90d5f9d10f716","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6f5c272d71845a669e4c8ee5c72b376e29a0e6e5"},{"version":"baa355fd331424526e742d41d9b90d5f9d10f716","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"be106f7855f03d3128ed0ce70ba74b484a90b473"},{"version":"baa355fd331424526e742d41d9b90d5f9d10f716","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3dd774dbfd0b5bc2dbd0995221751b1234f8205"},{"version":"baa355fd331424526e742d41d9b90d5f9d10f716","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"10065fb891651d9541e7a5a2db84c1e656ece4f9"},{"version":"baa355fd331424526e742d41d9b90d5f9d10f716","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d640efe94d86d3be893d4c19220362546a637e90"},{"version":"baa355fd331424526e742d41d9b90d5f9d10f716","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e923bd21058ea02fd0dcd3549d151d143fd036e5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"5.10.265","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.216","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.44","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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