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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98920"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:02:06.560Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:05:25.919Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98920"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98920.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98920"
title: "netfs: Fix missing alloc tagging of direct mempool allocations"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfs: Fix missing alloc tagging of direct mempool allocations\n\nCommit 1d78d56c43ef (\"netfs: Fix folio_queue ENOMEM in writeback by\nadding a mempool\") added a mempool for the folio_queues and made the\nrequest, subrequest and folio_queue allocations distinguish between\nwriteback and everything else.  Writeback is part of memory reclaim\nand must not fail due to ENOMEM, so it allocates under GFP_NOFS\nthrough mempool_alloc(), which may dip into the pool's reserve and,\nif that runs empty, wait for elements to be returned.  The\nGFP_KERNEL paths, which can return -ENOMEM to their callers, invoke\nthe pool's -\u003ealloc() callback directly instead.\n\nThe direct call, however, skips the alloc_hooks() wrapper that the\nmempool_alloc() macro provides.  The pool callbacks, mempool_alloc_slab()\nand mempool_kmalloc(), call kmem_cache_alloc_noprof() and kmalloc_noprof()\nand rely on current-\u003ealloc_tag having been set by the caller.  With\nCONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y this leads to\n\n    current-\u003ealloc_tag not set\n    WARNING: ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:161 at __alloc_tagging_slab_alloc_hook\n    alloc_tag was not set\n    WARNING: ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:166 at __alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook\n\nat allocation and free time respectively, as reported when reading\nfiles on a CIFS mount.  The allocations are also missing from\n/proc/allocinfo.\n\nWrap the direct -\u003ealloc() invocations in alloc_hooks() with a new\nmempool_alloc_noreserve() helper in include/linux/mempool.h, next to\nthe other alloc_hooks()-wrapped macros such as mempool_alloc().  The\nGFP_KERNEL paths keep their failable allocation semantics, they just\nget tagged now."
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