CVE-2026-46066: ceph: fix num_ops off-by-one when crypto allocation fails

Published May 27, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

3 affected components
Linux Linux kernel=6.18.16, =6.19.6, =7.0-rc1
Linux Linux kernel>=6.6<6.18.30
Linux Linux kernel>=6.19<7.0.4

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Linux kernel to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 6.19.6
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Linux kernel to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.0-rc1
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Linux kernel to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 6.18.16

Event History

May 27, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:57 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:57 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·02:17 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

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