CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46066
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Undergoing Analysis
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-193
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6 < 6.18.30)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5dd151799d826d3736ae60c2b22cbc9d96a2a613 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6200f41d6fcf2ac7e24866431e381cbc914560e4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0d9555bf9eaeba34fe6b6bb86f442fe08ba3842 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba12c1e578890f6337a415b7dedf476c6d455105 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f65a96fe2467a9b184c6ae963d95a260a202c98e git.kernel.org