CVE-2026-68147

fscrypt: Avoid dynamic allocation in fscrypt_get_devices()

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: August 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM UTC
Updated: August 19, 2026 at 05:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

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.)

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.1 ≤ v < 6.1.1836.1 ≤ v < 6.12.1016.1 ≤ v < 6.18.426.1 ≤ v < 6.6.1486.1 ≤ v < 7.1.66.1 ≤ v < 7.222e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b165866.1
Vendor states this is fixed in 4462ac3d90e897dda52ce4b6af2d526ddae835a8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6fe4e4b8259e1330945b5f3c9476e08473b8e0e8 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 81ea8e8221853950c47dac7164f27c63a96f8f86 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 97a688563be71ec6fefc071aff69a66c69dbe244 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bab016bb80d74a9d1f7d4121a7fc1cb529b470e0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bc2d630296e0e049210ec05ff08459a6893ae749 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.101 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.148 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
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