# CVE-2026-64157: netfs: Fix partial invalidation of streaming-write folio

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.11
- Published: 2026-07-19 · Updated: 2026-07-19

## Affected

- Linux: from 6.10.8, fixed in 6.11
- Linux: 6.11

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix partial invalidation of streaming-write folio In netfs_invalidate_folio(), if the region of a partial invalidation overlaps the front (but not all) of a dirty write cached in a streaming write page (dirty, but not uptodate, with the dirty region tracked by a netfs_folio struct), the function modifies the dirty region - but incorrectly as it moves the region forward by setting the start to the start, not the end, of the invalidation region. Fix this by setting finfo->dirty_offset to the end of the invalidation region (iend).

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6b2569ae29b666fd15ff2848684c445ba442a39
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d9601c029b934b5b6a10f99791467b10eb6b211
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a3d27116be2c5fb9a03d5cf37c486ac517f3689
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d91acc7fb85d33ea58fca9b964a32a453937f4b

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