CVE-2026-68147

fscrypt: Avoid dynamic allocation in fscrypt_get_devices()

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 10, 2026
Updated
Aug 19, 2026
Reserved
Jul 30, 2026

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Description

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

fscrypt: Avoid dynamic allocation in fscrypt_get_devices()

When a blk_crypto_key starts being used or is evicted, fs/crypto/ calls fscrypt_get_devices() to get the filesystem's list of block devices, then iterates over them and calls blk_crypto_config_supported(), blk_crypto_start_using_key(), or blk_crypto_evict_key() on each one.

Currently, the block device pointers are placed in a dynamically allocated array. This dynamic allocation is problematic because:

- It can fail, especially at the fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() call site when it's invoked for inode eviction under direct reclaim.

- fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() doesn't handle the failure. It just zeroizes and frees the blk_crypto_key without calling blk_crypto_evict_key(). That causes a use-after-free.

For now, let's fix this in the straightforward and easily-backportable way by switching to an on-stack array. Currently the fscrypt multi-device functionality is used only by f2fs, which has a hardcoded limit of 8 block devices. An on-stack array works fine for that.

(Of course, this solution won't scale up to large number of block devices. For that we'd need a different solution, like moving the block device iteration into the filesystem. Or in the case of btrfs, which will only support blk-crypto-fallback, we should make it just call blk-crypto-fallback directly, so the block devices won't be needed.)

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to before bab016bb80d74a9d1f7d4121a7fc1cb529b470e0Affected
  • 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to before 4462ac3d90e897dda52ce4b6af2d526ddae835a8Affected
  • 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to before 97a688563be71ec6fefc071aff69a66c69dbe244Affected
  • 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to before 81ea8e8221853950c47dac7164f27c63a96f8f86Affected
  • 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to before bc2d630296e0e049210ec05ff08459a6893ae749Affected
  • 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to before 6fe4e4b8259e1330945b5f3c9476e08473b8e0e8Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.1Affected
  • before 6.1Not affected
  • 6.1.183 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.148 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.101 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.6 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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