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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89835"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:31:08.636Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:48:58.936Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89835"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89835.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89835"
title: "f2fs: avoid NULL checkpoint thread access in sysfs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: avoid NULL checkpoint thread access in sysfs\n\ncheckpoint_merge can be enabled even when no checkpoint merge thread is\nrunning. A read-only mount is one case: f2fs does not start\nf2fs_issue_ckpt there, but ckpt_thread_ioprio is still writable through\nsysfs.\n\nThe ckpt_thread_ioprio store path updates the saved ioprio value and,\nwhen checkpoint_merge is enabled, calls set_task_ioprio() for the\ncheckpoint thread. If cprc-\u003ef2fs_issue_ckpt is NULL, that dereferences a\nNULL task pointer.\n\nProtect ckpt_thread_ioprio sysfs writes with s_umount as well, so the\ncheckpoint thread cannot disappear under the store path while updating\nits ioprio."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e65920661708b7c0f3db45c9cd5d0095034ee37f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22760e3e9cecbddc475edc91600787abf407a302"},{"version":"e65920661708b7c0f3db45c9cd5d0095034ee37f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a6573f3ffc19542de9ebc1a2b1f930fd48ba538c"},{"version":"e65920661708b7c0f3db45c9cd5d0095034ee37f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aefcec3bebdeed2bff444378122300763325ba23"},{"version":"e65920661708b7c0f3db45c9cd5d0095034ee37f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f3b99c50dd0da1777994ce7c7e60d39b9f60f4b"},{"version":"e65920661708b7c0f3db45c9cd5d0095034ee37f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5cb33b00c8fbb6e8f1fa3d281c3036d5f7c7c41f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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