CVE-2026-89833: Linux

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadloop in f2fs_fsync_node_pages() There is potential deadloop in race condition: Thread A Thread B - fsync - f2fs_do_sync_file - f2fs_fsync_node_pages - last_fsync_dnode - folio_get(last_folio) - f2fs_setattr - f2fs_truncate - f2fs_truncate_blocks - f2fs_do_truncate_blocks - f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks - truncate_dnode - truncate_node - invalidate_mapping_pages - folio->mapping = NULL - is_node_folio alwasy return false - atomic && !marked is always true, then goto retry

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 4.7, before 6.18.51 (fixed in 6.18.51); from 6.19, before 7.2.5 (fixed in 7.2.5)

Published 2026-09-16. Last modified 2026-09-16.