CVE-2026-46066

ceph: fix num_ops off-by-one when crypto allocation fails

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ceph: fix num_ops off-by-one when crypto allocation fails

move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() may fail if the file is encrypted, the dirty folio is not the first in the batch, and it fails to allocate a bounce buffer to hold the ciphertext. When that happens, ceph_process_folio_batch() simply redirties the folio and flushes the current batch -- it can retry that folio in a future batch.

However, if this failed folio is not contiguous with the last folio that did make it into the batch, then ceph_process_folio_batch() has already incremented `ceph_wbc->num_ops`; because it doesn't follow through and add the discontiguous folio to the array, ceph_submit_write() -- which expects that `ceph_wbc->num_ops` accurately reflects the number of contiguous ranges (and therefore the required number of "write extent" ops) in the writeback -- will panic the kernel:

BUG_ON(ceph_wbc->op_idx + 1 != req->r_num_ops);

This issue can be reproduced on affected kernels by writing to fscrypt-enabled CephFS file(s) with a 4KiB-written/4KiB-skipped/repeat pattern (total filesize should not matter) and gradually increasing the system's memory pressure until a bounce buffer allocation fails.

Fix this crash by decrementing `ceph_wbc->num_ops` back to the correct value when move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() fails, but the folio already started counting a new (i.e. still-empty) extent.

The defect corrected by this patch has existed since 2022 (see first `Fixes:`), but another bug blocked multi-folio encrypted writeback until recently (see second `Fixes:`). The second commit made it into 6.18.16, 6.19.6, and 7.0-rc1, unmasking the panic in those versions. This patch therefore fixes a regression (panic) introduced by cac190c7674f.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d55207717ded95c8f2760a30e93319fa313186e6 to before f65a96fe2467a9b184c6ae963d95a260a202c98eAffected
  • d55207717ded95c8f2760a30e93319fa313186e6 to before 5dd151799d826d3736ae60c2b22cbc9d96a2a613Affected
  • d55207717ded95c8f2760a30e93319fa313186e6 to before 6200f41d6fcf2ac7e24866431e381cbc914560e4Affected
  • d55207717ded95c8f2760a30e93319fa313186e6 to before ba12c1e578890f6337a415b7dedf476c6d455105Affected
  • d55207717ded95c8f2760a30e93319fa313186e6 to before a0d9555bf9eaeba34fe6b6bb86f442fe08ba3842Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.30 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.4 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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