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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/30 22:29
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+046b605f01802054bff0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 75d, last: 1d14h
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] gfs2: Fix slab-use-after-free in gfs2_qd_dispose 1 (1) 2025/12/13 06:43
[syzbot] [mm?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one (3) 0 (1) 2025/11/30 22:29
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one (2) mm 19 1 199d 193d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/27 07:35
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one mm 19 3 493d 477d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/14 23:56
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one 19 1 180d 180d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/24 06:33

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __list_lru_walk_one+0xfb/0x420 mm/list_lru.c:293
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888051ae6078 by task syz.8.5801/25846

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 25846 Comm: syz.8.5801 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __list_lru_walk_one+0xfb/0x420 mm/list_lru.c:293
 list_lru_walk_one+0x3c/0x50 mm/list_lru.c:341
 list_lru_shrink_walk include/linux/list_lru.h:262 [inline]
 gfs2_qd_shrink_scan+0x155/0x330 fs/gfs2/quota.c:182
 do_shrink_slab+0x6df/0x10d0 mm/shrinker.c:437
 shrink_slab+0xd74/0x10d0 mm/shrinker.c:664
 drop_slab_node mm/vmscan.c:434 [inline]
 drop_slab+0x14b/0x290 mm/vmscan.c:452
 drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0xc7/0x170 fs/drop_caches.c:68
 proc_sys_call_handler+0x4cb/0x700 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:600
 do_iter_readv_writev+0x623/0x8c0 fs/read_write.c:-1
 vfs_writev+0x31a/0x960 fs/read_write.c:1057
 do_writev+0x14d/0x2d0 fs/read_write.c:1103
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f10d6f8f749
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f10d7da1038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000014
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f10d71e6090 RCX: 00007f10d6f8f749
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007f10d7013f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f10d71e6128 R14: 00007f10d71e6090 R15: 00007ffd58387a38
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 16125:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:339 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:365
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x37d/0x710 mm/slub.c:5270
 qd_alloc+0x50/0x250 fs/gfs2/quota.c:234
 gfs2_quota_init+0x762/0x1200 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1448
 gfs2_make_fs_rw+0x143/0x220 fs/gfs2/super.c:149
 gfs2_fill_super+0x1b6a/0x21b0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1275
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1691
 gfs2_get_tree+0x51/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1751
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1199 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3636 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x302/0xa10 fs/namespace.c:3712
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4035 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4224 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x313/0x410 fs/namespace.c:4201
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 16146:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6668 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x197/0x620 mm/slub.c:6779
 gfs2_qd_dealloc+0x70/0xe0 fs/gfs2/quota.c:111
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]
 rcu_core+0xd70/0x1870 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857
 handle_softirqs+0x27d/0x850 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x1f0 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3119 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x157/0x9c0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3239
 qd_ungrab_sync fs/gfs2/quota.c:493 [inline]
 gfs2_quota_sync+0x30c/0x460 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1351
 gfs2_sync_fs+0x4c/0xb0 fs/gfs2/super.c:658
 sync_filesystem+0xee/0x230 fs/sync.c:56
 generic_shutdown_super+0x6f/0x2c0 fs/super.c:622
 kill_block_super+0x44/0x90 fs/super.c:1722
 deactivate_locked_super+0xbc/0x130 fs/super.c:474
 cleanup_mnt+0x425/0x4c0 fs/namespace.c:1318
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:44 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xff/0x4f0 kernel/entry/common.c:75
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2e3/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888051ae6000
 which belongs to the cache gfs2_quotad of size 272
The buggy address is located 120 bytes inside of
 freed 272-byte region [ffff888051ae6000, ffff888051ae6110)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x51ae6
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff888142ad08c0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000800c000c 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0x52c50(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 16125, tgid 16121 (syz.5.3107), ts 960728026062, free_ts 947002040055
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1846
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1854 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2365/0x2440 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xf2b/0x1960 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc+0x65/0x100 mm/slub.c:4779
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x40f/0x710 mm/slub.c:5270
 qd_alloc+0x50/0x250 fs/gfs2/quota.c:234
 gfs2_quota_init+0x762/0x1200 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1448
 gfs2_make_fs_rw+0x143/0x220 fs/gfs2/super.c:149
 gfs2_fill_super+0x1b6a/0x21b0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1275
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1691
 gfs2_get_tree+0x51/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1751
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1199 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3636 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x302/0xa10 fs/namespace.c:3712
page last free pid 10812 tgid 10812 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc8/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x146/0x170 mm/slub.c:3886
 put_cpu_partial+0x1f2/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:3961
 __slab_free+0x288/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:5952
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:349
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x3cf/0x800 mm/slub.c:5669
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe3/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x213/0x4b0 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 security_inode_getattr+0x12f/0x330 security/security.c:1869
 vfs_getattr fs/stat.c:259 [inline]
 vfs_fstat fs/stat.c:281 [inline]
 __do_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:555 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:550 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstat+0xfc/0x200 fs/stat.c:550
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888051ae5f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888051ae5f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888051ae6000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                                ^
 ffff888051ae6080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888051ae6100: fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (20):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/12 05:29 upstream d358e5254674 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/11 05:31 upstream 8c8081cc599f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/09 11:00 upstream a110f942672c d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/09 01:23 upstream a110f942672c d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/06 13:46 upstream 416f99c3b16f d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/06 07:35 upstream 7203ca412fc8 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/06 01:59 upstream d1d36025a617 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/06 00:34 upstream 7203ca412fc8 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/05 11:52 upstream 2061f18ad76e d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/04 16:03 upstream 559e608c4655 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/09/29 18:51 upstream e5f0a698b34e 86341da6 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/07 04:21 linux-next 6987d58a9cbc d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/05 19:29 linux-next 6987d58a9cbc d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/04 02:07 linux-next b2c27842ba85 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/02 21:50 linux-next 7d31f578f323 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/12/01 19:05 linux-next 7d31f578f323 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/11/30 22:28 linux-next 7d31f578f323 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/11/24 04:27 linux-next d724c6f85e80 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/11/06 12:54 linux-next df5d79720b15 a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
2025/10/25 23:03 linux-next 72fb0170ef1f c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __list_lru_walk_one
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.