diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ee043aeac..9928543af 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ if (MI_BUILD_TESTS)
   enable_testing()
 
   # static link tests
-  foreach(TEST_NAME api api-fill stress)
+  foreach(TEST_NAME api api-fill stress free-foreign)
     add_executable(mimalloc-test-${TEST_NAME} test/test-${TEST_NAME}.c)
     target_compile_definitions(mimalloc-test-${TEST_NAME} PRIVATE ${mi_defines})
     target_compile_options(mimalloc-test-${TEST_NAME} PRIVATE ${mi_cflags})
diff --git a/include/mimalloc/internal.h b/include/mimalloc/internal.h
index bf0b6975a..0691f2eb5 100644
--- a/include/mimalloc/internal.h
+++ b/include/mimalloc/internal.h
@@ -657,11 +657,7 @@ static inline mi_page_t* _mi_checked_ptr_page(const void* p) {
 
 static inline mi_page_t* _mi_ptr_page(const void* p) {
   mi_assert_internal(p==NULL || mi_is_in_heap_region(p));
-  #if MI_DEBUG || MI_SECURE || defined(__APPLE__)
   return _mi_checked_ptr_page(p);
-  #else
-  return _mi_unchecked_ptr_page(p);
-  #endif
 }
 
 
diff --git a/test/test-free-foreign.c b/test/test-free-foreign.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7559947f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test-free-foreign.c
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Copyright (c) 2018-2026, Microsoft Research, Daan Leijen
+This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+terms of the MIT license. A copy of the license can be found in the file
+"LICENSE" at the root of this distribution.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+/*
+Regression test: `mi_free` must not crash when called on a pointer that was
+not allocated by mimalloc. In LD_PRELOAD / override scenarios this is observed
+in the wild when libraries with their own internal bookkeeping (e.g. LLVM via
+Mesa's `gbm_create_device`) call `free()` on pointers that live on a thread
+stack or on a static/TCB page whose pagemap submap entry is NULL.
+
+Every other production allocator (glibc, jemalloc, tcmalloc) tolerates such
+calls, and mimalloc's debug/MI_SECURE/macOS paths already did. This test
+exercises the release-Linux fast path that historically bypassed the NULL
+submap check in `_mi_ptr_page`.
+*/
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include "mimalloc.h"
+#include "testhelper.h"
+
+static uint8_t g_static_buffer[4096];
+
+int main(void) {
+  mi_option_disable(mi_option_verbose);
+
+  CHECK_BODY("mi_free-NULL") {
+    mi_free(NULL);
+    result = true;
+  };
+
+  CHECK_BODY("mi_free-stack-pointer") {
+    uint8_t stack_buffer[256];
+    memset(stack_buffer, 0, sizeof(stack_buffer));
+    mi_free(&stack_buffer[16]);
+    result = true;
+  };
+
+  CHECK_BODY("mi_free-static-pointer") {
+    memset(g_static_buffer, 0, sizeof(g_static_buffer));
+    mi_free(&g_static_buffer[16]);
+    result = true;
+  };
+
+  CHECK_BODY("mi_free-mmap-style-pointer") {
+    uintptr_t fake = (uintptr_t)&g_static_buffer[0] ^ (uintptr_t)0x1000;
+    mi_free((void*)fake);
+    result = true;
+  };
+
+  CHECK_BODY("mi_free-roundtrip-after-foreign") {
+    void* p = mi_malloc(128);
+    result = (p != NULL);
+    if (result) { mi_free(p); }
+  };
+
+  return print_test_summary();
+}