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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in move_pages_pte

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2024/12/07 17:14
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+1c58afed1cfd2f57efee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: mm: pgtable: make ptlock be freed by RCU
Patched on: [ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root], missing on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 537d, last: 536d
Cause bisection: introduced by (bisect log) :
commit 5b29c4156f5801fced2ec504b44ab98f60c480bf
Author: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Date: Wed Dec 4 11:09:51 2024 +0000

  x86: select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PT_RECLAIM if X86_64

Crash: KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in move_pages_pte (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
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223739bd-f536-4037-86da-d5ec11ea142a assessment-security 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in move_pages_pte 2026/05/24 18:20 2026/05/24 18:20 2026/05/24 18:47 c69befb30ac10e158cc9d1557b508ee3f0eca1de failed to run ["make" "KERNELVERSION=syzkaller" "KERNELRELEASE=syzkaller" "LOCALVERSION=-syzkaller" "-j" "32" "ARCH=x86_64" "CC=ccache clang" "LD=ld.lld" "O=/app/workdir/cache/build/b44fa9e259472be089f506eb930596dc052d73ca" "-s" "bzImage" "compile_commands.json"]: exit status 2 Root cause: ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: wcslen * * Restart config... * * * General architecture-dependent options * Kprobes (KPROBES) [N/y/?] n Optimize very unlikely/likely branches (JUMP_LABEL) [Y/n/?] y Static key selftest (STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST) [N/y/?] n Static call selftest (STATIC_CALL_SELFTEST) [N/y/?] n Enable seccomp to safely execute untrusted bytecode (SECCOMP) [Y/n/?] y Show seccomp filter cache status in /proc/pid/seccomp_cache (SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG) [N/y/?] n Stack Protector buffer overflow detection (STACKPROTECTOR) [Y/n/?] y Strong Stack Protector (STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG) [Y/n/?] y Link Time Optimization (LTO) > 1. None (LTO_NONE) choice[1]: 1 Enable Clang's AutoFDO build (EXPERIMENTAL) (AUTOFDO_CLANG) [N/y/?] (NEW) Error in reading or end of file. Enable Clang's Propeller build (PROPELLER_CLANG) [N/y/?] (NEW) Error in reading or end of file. Use Clang's Control Flow Integrity (CFI) (CFI_CLANG) [N/y/?] (NEW) Error in reading or end of file. Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address (ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS) [28] 28 Number of bits to use for ASLR of mmap base address for compatible applications (ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS) [8] 8 MMU page size > 1. 4KiB pages (PAGE_SIZE_4KB) choice[1]: 1 Provide system calls for 32-bit time_t (COMPAT_32BIT_TIME) [Y/n/?] y Use a virtually-mapped stack (VMAP_STACK) [Y/n/?] y Support for randomizing kernel stack offset on syscall entry (RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET) [Y/n/?] y Default state of kernel stack offset randomization (RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT) [N/y/?] n Locking event counts collection (LOCK_EVENT_COUNTS) [N/y/?] n * * Memory initialization * Initialize kernel stack variables at function entry 1. no automatic stack variable initialization (weakest) (INIT_STACK_NONE) 2. pattern-init everything (strongest) (INIT_STACK_ALL_PATTERN) > 3. zero-init everything (strongest and safest) (INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO) choice[1-3?]: 3 Enable heap memory zeroing on allocation by default (INIT_ON_ALLOC_DEFAULT_ON) [Y/n/?] y Enable heap memory zeroing on free by default (INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON) [N/y/?] n Enable register zeroing on function exit (ZERO_CALL_USED_REGS) [N/y/?] (NEW) Error in reading or end of file. * * Kernel hardening options * Randomize layout of sensitive kernel structures > 1. Disable structure layout randomization (RANDSTRUCT_NONE) 2. Fully randomize structure layout (RANDSTRUCT_FULL) (NEW) choice[1-2?]: Error in reading or end of file. * * Compile-time checks and compiler options * Debug information 1. Disable debug information (DEBUG_INFO_NONE) 2. Rely on the toolchain's implicit default DWARF version (DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT) > 3. Generate DWARF Version 4 debuginfo (DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4) 4. Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo (DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5) choice[1-4?]: 3 Reduce debugging information (DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED) [N/y/?] n Compressed Debug information > 1. Don't compress debug information (DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_NONE) 2. Compress debugging information with zlib (DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB) 3. Compress debugging information with zstd (DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZSTD) (NEW) choice[1-3?]: Error in reading or end of file. Produce split debuginfo in .dwo files (DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT) [N/y/?] n Generate BTF type information (DEBUG_INFO_BTF) [N/y/?] n Provide GDB scripts for kernel debugging (GDB_SCRIPTS) [N/y/?] n Warn for stack frames larger than (FRAME_WARN) [2048] 2048 Strip assembler-generated symbols during link (STRIP_ASM_SYMS) [N/y/?] n Install uapi headers to usr/include (HEADERS_INSTALL) [N/y/?] n Make section mismatch errors non-fatal (SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY) [Y/n/?] y Force all function address 64B aligned (DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B) [N/y/?] n Generate vmlinux.map file when linking (VMLINUX_MAP) [N/y/?] n Force weak per-cpu definitions (DEBUG_FOR
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[PATCH v4 12/11] mm: pgtable: make ptlock be freed by RCU 1 (1) 2024/12/10 08:44
[syzbot] [mm?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in move_pages_pte 9 (14) 2024/12/09 11:39
Last patch testing requests (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2024/12/09 09:31 1h11m zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git mm-unstable OK log
2024/12/09 07:33 16m zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git mm-unstable report log
2024/12/09 07:00 0m zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git mm-unstable error
2024/12/09 06:48 0m zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git mm-unstable error

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x78/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888034718978 by task syz-executor352/6070

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6070 Comm: syz-executor352 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1-next-20241205-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
 __lock_acquire+0x78/0x2100 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5089
 lock_acquire+0x1ed/0x550 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5849
 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:133 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:154
 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline]
 move_pages_pte+0x8aa/0x3400 mm/userfaultfd.c:1248
 move_pages+0xe75/0x16a0 mm/userfaultfd.c:1754
 userfaultfd_move fs/userfaultfd.c:1899 [inline]
 userfaultfd_ioctl+0x5221/0x6840 fs/userfaultfd.c:2022
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fed8de85af9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 e1 18 00 00 90 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 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fed8de40238 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fed8df10328 RCX: 00007fed8de85af9
RDX: 0000000020000080 RSI: 00000000c028aa05 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fed8df10320 R08: 00007fed8de406c0 R09: 00007fed8de406c0
R10: 00007fed8de406c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fed8dedd334
R13: 0000000000000010 R14: 00007ffc241241e0 R15: 00007ffc241242c8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6070:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:319 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x66/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:345
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4104 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4153 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x1d9/0x380 mm/slub.c:4160
 ptlock_alloc+0x20/0x70 mm/memory.c:7026
 ptlock_init include/linux/mm.h:2971 [inline]
 pagetable_pte_ctor include/linux/mm.h:2998 [inline]
 __pte_alloc_one_noprof include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h:73 [inline]
 pte_alloc_one+0xd3/0x510 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:41
 __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page mm/huge_memory.c:1229 [inline]
 do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x2fb/0xb30 mm/huge_memory.c:1374
 create_huge_pmd mm/memory.c:5737 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5986 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x15a7/0x1bb0 mm/memory.c:6183
 do_user_addr_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1338 [inline]
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1481 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x459/0x8b0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1539
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:623

Freed by task 6071:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x59/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2338 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4598 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x195/0x410 mm/slub.c:4700
 pagetable_pte_dtor include/linux/mm.h:3009 [inline]
 ___pte_free_tlb+0x2b/0x140 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:63
 __pte_free_tlb arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h:61 [inline]
 free_pte+0x142/0x190 mm/pt_reclaim.c:31
 zap_pte_range mm/memory.c:1780 [inline]
 zap_pmd_range mm/memory.c:1822 [inline]
 zap_pud_range mm/memory.c:1851 [inline]
 zap_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1872 [inline]
 unmap_page_range+0x4062/0x48d0 mm/memory.c:1893
 zap_page_range_single+0x45c/0x630 mm/memory.c:2018
 madvise_dontneed_single_vma mm/madvise.c:859 [inline]
 madvise_dontneed_free mm/madvise.c:940 [inline]
 madvise_vma_behavior mm/madvise.c:1270 [inline]
 madvise_walk_vmas mm/madvise.c:1502 [inline]
 do_madvise+0x2774/0x4d90 mm/madvise.c:1689
 __do_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:1705 [inline]
 __se_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:1703 [inline]
 __x64_sys_madvise+0xa6/0xc0 mm/madvise.c:1703
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888034718960
 which belongs to the cache page->ptl of size 64
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 freed 64-byte region [ffff888034718960, ffff8880347189a0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x34718
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88801ac4f780 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000802a002a 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 5823, tgid 5823 (syz-executor352), ts 65548803787, free_ts 65433386693
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f4/0x240 mm/page_alloc.c:1549
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1557 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x365c/0x37a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3475
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x292/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4752
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x30e/0x550 mm/mempolicy.c:2270
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2408 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x8f/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:2574
 new_slab mm/slub.c:2627 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xc27/0x14a0 mm/slub.c:3815
 __slab_alloc+0x58/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3905
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3980 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4141 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x268/0x380 mm/slub.c:4160
 ptlock_alloc mm/memory.c:7026 [inline]
 ptlock_init include/linux/mm.h:2971 [inline]
 pmd_ptlock_init include/linux/mm.h:3078 [inline]
 pagetable_pmd_ctor include/linux/mm.h:3116 [inline]
 pmd_alloc_one_noprof include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h:141 [inline]
 __pmd_alloc+0x10b/0x670 mm/memory.c:6436
 pmd_alloc include/linux/mm.h:2862 [inline]
 copy_pmd_range+0x7352/0x77a0 mm/memory.c:1241
 copy_pud_range mm/memory.c:1298 [inline]
 copy_p4d_range mm/memory.c:1322 [inline]
 copy_page_range+0x99f/0xe90 mm/memory.c:1420
 dup_mmap kernel/fork.c:751 [inline]
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1693 [inline]
 copy_mm+0x12d2/0x2060 kernel/fork.c:1742
 copy_process+0x1845/0x3d80 kernel/fork.c:2393
 kernel_clone+0x226/0x8e0 kernel/fork.c:2805
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2948 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2932 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x258/0x2a0 kernel/fork.c:2932
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
page last free pid 6052 tgid 6051 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1127 [inline]
 free_frozen_pages+0xe0d/0x10e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2658
 __folio_put+0x2b3/0x360 mm/swap.c:112
 __tlb_remove_table arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h:34 [inline]
 __tlb_remove_table_free mm/mmu_gather.c:227 [inline]
 tlb_remove_table_rcu+0x76/0xf0 mm/mmu_gather.c:282
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2567 [inline]
 rcu_core+0xaaa/0x17a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2823
 handle_softirqs+0x2d4/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:561
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:435 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xf7/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:662
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:678
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1049
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:702

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888034718800: 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888034718880: fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc
>ffff888034718900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb
                                                                ^
 ffff888034718980: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888034718a00: fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2024/12/06 00:30 linux-next af2ea8ab7a54 6e50d07b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in move_pages_pte
2024/12/05 16:57 linux-next af2ea8ab7a54 6e50d07b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in move_pages_pte
2024/12/05 16:57 linux-next af2ea8ab7a54 6e50d07b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in move_pages_pte
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.