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KASAN: use-after-free Read in set_de_name_and_namelen

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/10 23:32
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+37241c6adadea9ab27bb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 54d, last: 53d
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/12/12 linux-6.6.y (ToT) 5fa4793a2d2d C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in set_de_name_and_namelen
2025/12/12 upstream (ToT) d358e5254674 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in set_de_name_and_namelen fs 19 C error done 15 765d 1166d 25/29 fixed on 2024/02/13 12:02
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/01/09 01:15 1h47m fix candidate upstream OK (0) job log

Sample crash report:
REISERFS (device loop0): journal params: device loop0, size 512, journal first block 18, max trans len 256, max batch 225, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
REISERFS (device loop0): checking transaction log (loop0)
REISERFS (device loop0): Using r5 hash to sort names
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in set_de_name_and_namelen+0x664/0x6a0 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:81
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880631ea3cb by task syz.0.17/5926

CPU: 0 PID: 5926 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xac/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 set_de_name_and_namelen+0x664/0x6a0 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:81
 linear_search_in_dir_item fs/reiserfs/namei.c:262 [inline]
 reiserfs_find_entry+0x5e0/0x1310 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:331
 reiserfs_lookup+0x1b9/0x520 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:368
 __lookup_slow+0x281/0x3b0 fs/namei.c:1702
 lookup_one_len+0x192/0x2c0 fs/namei.c:2752
 reiserfs_lookup_privroot+0x89/0x180 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:977
 reiserfs_fill_super+0x16f3/0x2340 fs/reiserfs/super.c:2192
 mount_bdev+0x22b/0x2d0 fs/super.c:1643
 legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:662
 vfs_get_tree+0x8c/0x280 fs/super.c:1764
 do_new_mount+0x24b/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3386
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3726 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3935 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2da/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3912
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f4434d90eea
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb a6 e8 de 1a 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 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:00007ffc3219e688 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc3219e710 RCX: 00007f4434d90eea
RDX: 0000200000000000 RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: 00007ffc3219e6d0
RBP: 0000200000000000 R08: 00007ffc3219e710 R09: 000000000120c083
R10: 000000000120c083 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000140
R13: 00007ffc3219e6d0 R14: 000000000000111e R15: 0000200000000480
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00018c7a80 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x631ea
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea00018c7ac8 ffffea00018c7a08 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x140dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), pid 5773, tgid 5773 (udevd), ts 90604032615, free_ts 90638107969
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1cd/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1554
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
 __alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
 __folio_alloc+0x10/0x20 mm/page_alloc.c:4489
 vma_alloc_folio+0x47a/0x8f0 mm/mempolicy.c:2242
 do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:4150 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:3687 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5047 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5188 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1a38/0x4920 mm/memory.c:5353
 do_user_addr_fault+0x738/0x12e0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1373
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1465 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x67/0x110 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1521
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
 free_unref_page_list+0xbe/0x860 mm/page_alloc.c:2475
 release_pages+0x1fa0/0x2220 mm/swap.c:1022
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:98 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:293 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu+0x368/0x4f0 mm/mmu_gather.c:300
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xc3/0x1d0 mm/mmu_gather.c:392
 unmap_region+0x2ed/0x340 mm/mmap.c:2349
 do_vmi_align_munmap+0xffe/0x1660 mm/mmap.c:2592
 do_vmi_munmap+0x252/0x2d0 mm/mmap.c:2660
 __vm_munmap+0x193/0x3c0 mm/mmap.c:2961
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:2978 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:2975 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x60/0x70 mm/mmap.c:2975
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880631ea280: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff8880631ea300: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff8880631ea380: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                                              ^
 ffff8880631ea400: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff8880631ea480: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/11 01:20 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in set_de_name_and_namelen
2025/12/11 00:45 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in set_de_name_and_namelen
2025/12/11 00:04 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in set_de_name_and_namelen
2025/12/10 23:32 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in set_de_name_and_namelen
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.