[PATCH 3/4] ext4: don't put a DUN wraparound in the middle of a read bio

From: Baokun Li

Date: Tue Nov 03 2026 - 12:13:32 EST


Under IV_INO_LBLK_32, a file's DUNs wrap at 2^32, and the policy
is only allowed when the block size equals the page size.

ext4_mpage_readpages() adds a whole folio to one bio, but checks
only the DUN of the first block. blk-crypto assumes the DUNs
in a bio are contiguous and never wraps them, so blocks past
the wraparound are read with the wrong DUNs.

Writeback and direct I/O get this right, but with large folios
a single folio can still span the wraparound.

Fix this by routing such a folio through the buffer_head path,
which submits one bio per block and so gives each block its own DUN.

fscrypt_limit_io_blocks() tells whether the wraparound falls after
the first block; a wraparound at the first block itself is already
caught by fscrypt_mergeable_bio().

A file's DUNs wrap at most once, so at most one folio per file takes
the slower path, and the per-block bios can be merged again by the
block layer.

Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/readpage.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/readpage.c b/fs/ext4/readpage.c
index c7b6cdb2e124..43af6d9d6ddb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/readpage.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/readpage.c
@@ -264,6 +264,16 @@ static int ext4_mpage_readpages(struct inode *inode, struct fsverity_info *vi,
folio_set_mappedtodisk(folio);
}

+ /*
+ * blk-crypto assumes a bio's DUNs are contiguous, but under
+ * IV_INO_LBLK_32 alone they wrap at 2^32. A folio spanning
+ * the wrap would be decrypted with wrong IVs, so it goes to
+ * the buffer_head-based path, one bio per block.
+ */
+ if (first_hole >
+ fscrypt_limit_io_blocks(inode, pos >> blkbits, first_hole))
+ goto confused;
+
/*
* This folio will go to BIO. Do we need to send this
* BIO off first?
--
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