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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: 70d, last: 3h59m
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[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 195d 189d 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 489d 472d 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 176d 176d 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 ffff88806aa98708 by task syz.0.6024/29928

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 29928 Comm: syz.0.6024 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
 iter_file_splice_write+0x972/0x10b0 fs/splice.c:738
 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:938 [inline]
 direct_splice_actor+0x101/0x160 fs/splice.c:1161
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x5a8/0xcc0 fs/splice.c:1105
 do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1204 [inline]
 do_splice_direct+0x181/0x270 fs/splice.c:1230
 do_sendfile+0x4da/0x7e0 fs/read_write.c:1370
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1425 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64+0xd9/0x190 fs/read_write.c:1417
 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: 0033:0x7f5933f8f749
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:00007f5934d83038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000028
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f59341e6090 RCX: 00007f5933f8f749
RDX: 0000200000002080 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007f5934013f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000000021c R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f59341e6128 R14: 00007f59341e6090 R15: 00007ffde4af0cc8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 26444:
 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:4948 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5258 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x37d/0x710 mm/slub.c:5265
 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 6220:
 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:6663 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x197/0x620 mm/slub.c:6774
 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 ffff88806aa98690
 which belongs to the cache gfs2_quotad of size 272
The buggy address is located 120 bytes inside of
 freed 272-byte region [ffff88806aa98690, ffff88806aa987a0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88806aa98690 pfn:0x6aa98
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88801c7f7b40 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: ffff88806aa98690 00000000800c0006 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 6158, tgid 6156 (syz.4.40), ts 120943157653, free_ts 85343424652
 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:4651
 __slab_alloc+0x65/0x100 mm/slub.c:4774
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5246 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x40f/0x710 mm/slub.c:5265
 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 5812 tgid 5812 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xdb3/0x14f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3000
 folios_put_refs+0x584/0x670 mm/swap.c:1002
 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x277/0x520 mm/swap_state.c:355
 __tlb_batch_free_encoded_pages mm/mmu_gather.c:136 [inline]
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:149 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:397 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu+0x3a0/0x680 mm/mmu_gather.c:404
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xc3/0x1d0 mm/mmu_gather.c:497
 vms_clear_ptes+0x42b/0x530 mm/vma.c:1238
 vms_complete_munmap_vmas+0x206/0x8a0 mm/vma.c:1280
 do_vmi_align_munmap+0x364/0x440 mm/vma.c:1539
 do_vmi_munmap+0x253/0x2e0 mm/vma.c:1587
 __vm_munmap+0x207/0x380 mm/vma.c:3203
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:1077 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:1074 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x60/0x70 mm/mmap.c:1074
 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:
 ffff88806aa98600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88806aa98680: fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88806aa98700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88806aa98780: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88806aa98800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (18):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
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.