CVE-2026-68148 PUBLISHED

fscrypt: Add missing superblock check in find_or_insert_direct_key()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

fscrypt: Add missing superblock check in find_or_insert_direct_key()

The legacy 'fscrypt_direct_keys' table caches master keys that are used by v1 encryption policies that have FSCRYPT_POLICY_FLAG_DIRECT_KEY. It's just a global table for all filesystems (since the keys can be provided by the legacy process-subscribed keyrings mechanism, which makes it difficult to reuse super_block::s_master_keys).

The entries in it ('struct fscrypt_direct_key') do contain a super_block pointer, though, for passing to fscrypt_destroy_inline_crypt_key() when the last inode that references the key is evicted.

However, when finding the fscrypt_direct_key for an inode, we weren't actually comparing the super_block pointer. As a result, inodes with different super_blocks could point to the same fscrypt_direct_key. That could extend the lifetime of a fscrypt_direct_key beyond the super_block it points to, causing a use-after-free later.

Fix this by creating distinct fscrypt_direct_key structs for distinct super_block structs.

Note that this problem doesn't exist in the v2 policy equivalent ("per-mode keys"), since the data structures there are per super_block.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to 330249609b70778094a7a36f5b6bcfa6362121d4 (excl.)
  • affected from 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to deff41898a5ae3a47db5fa1896a494aa95efda5d (excl.)
  • affected from 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to 95376fe9c145be35566991df99c53134943d992f (excl.)
  • affected from 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to 466f187b501a5ac8e1ea2ccf3ccd5c46108d8830 (excl.)
  • affected from 22e9947a4b2ba255888541bd0111cf00b9b16586 to b5fa40226e71c17847b9ff2816c6ca4133d0d994 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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