CVE-2026-46066: ceph: fix num_ops off-by-one when crypto allocation fails
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: fix numops off-by-one when crypto allocation fails
movedirtyfolioinpagearray() 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, cephprocessfoliobatch() 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 cephprocessfoliobatch() has already incremented cephwbc->numops; because it doesn't follow through and add the discontiguous folio to the array, cephsubmitwrite() -- which expects that cephwbc->numops accurately reflects the number of contiguous ranges (and therefore the required number of "write extent" ops) in the writeback -- will panic the kernel:
BUGON(cephwbc->opidx + 1 != req->rnumops);
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 cephwbc->numops back to the correct value when movedirtyfolioinpagearray() 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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