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KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/03 01:48
Bug presence: origin:lts
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Reported-by: syzbot+3f3e4714a8b66ff246cf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 50d, last: 3d12h
▶ ▼ Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/07/03 lts (merge base) 2160dcc38acf C [report] KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry
2025/07/03 upstream (ToT) b4911fb0b060 C Didn't crash
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (18)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.19 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry (2) 19 C done 7 1439d 1897d 1/1 fixed on 2021/10/13 07:23
android-5-15 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry 17 1 795d 795d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/17 07:02
upstream KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry ext4 24 C error 2851 1h03m 334d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/09/22 00:16
android-54 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry ext4 17 C 14 848d 1614d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/08/23 09:06
linux-5.15 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry origin:upstream 17 C error 24 2d11h 159d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/15 11:50
linux-6.1 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry missing-backport origin:lts-only 17 C inconclusive 401 2d21h 825d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/05/19 08:42
linux-6.6 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry origin:upstream 17 C 30 4d08h 66d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/17 02:45
android-5-10 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry 19 C inconclusive 13 7h08m 702d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/09/20 02:40
linux-4.14 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry 17 C error 2 1078d 1592d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2021/04/12 14:20
android-6-1 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry origin:lts 17 C 226 11d 465d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/05/13 18:18
android-5-15 general protection fault in ext4_xattr_set_entry 2 C error 1 903d 983d 2/2 fixed on 2023/03/28 12:29
android-5-10 general protection fault in ext4_xattr_set_entry (4) 2 C error 62 806d 835d 2/2 fixed on 2023/06/07 17:22
android-5-10 general protection fault in ext4_xattr_set_entry (2) ext4 2 C error 423 841d 1041d 2/2 fixed on 2023/05/03 13:06
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry (5) ext4 19 2 1123d 1181d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/11/22 17:19
android-5-10 general protection fault in ext4_xattr_set_entry (3) 2 C error 9 837d 840d 2/2 fixed on 2023/05/08 19:06
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry (4) ext4 24 C error done 21 1277d 1664d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/28 10:17
android-5-10 general protection fault in ext4_xattr_set_entry 2 C error 2 1064d 1078d 0/2 closed as invalid on 2022/09/26 18:30
android-5-10 general protection fault in ext4_xattr_set_entry (5) 2 C done 11 803d 805d 2/2 fixed on 2023/06/13 02:27
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/18 19:35 6m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/07/19 02:14 35m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in ext4_xattr_set_entry+0x13a3/0x37d0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1747
Read of size 18446744073709551540 at addr ffff888106384870 by task syz-executor186/288

CPU: 0 PID: 288 Comm: syz-executor186 Not tainted 5.15.189-syzkaller-00091-gf32b52534f1d #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xee/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:427 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xf1/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:444
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x280/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 memmove+0x2d/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:54
 ext4_xattr_set_entry+0x13a3/0x37d0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1747
 ext4_xattr_block_set+0x8cd/0x2cb0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2004
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0xba5/0x12b0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2412
 ext4_xattr_set+0x22a/0x320 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2522
 ext4_xattr_trusted_set+0x3c/0x50 fs/ext4/xattr_trusted.c:38
 __vfs_setxattr+0x3e1/0x430 fs/xattr.c:182
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x12a/0x5e0 fs/xattr.c:216
 __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x212/0x230 fs/xattr.c:277
 vfs_setxattr+0x168/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:303
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:588 [inline]
 setxattr+0x2da/0x300 fs/xattr.c:611
 path_setxattr+0x142/0x280 fs/xattr.c:630
 __do_sys_lsetxattr fs/xattr.c:653 [inline]
 __se_sys_lsetxattr fs/xattr.c:649 [inline]
 __x64_sys_lsetxattr+0xc2/0xe0 fs/xattr.c:649
 x64_sys_call+0x8cc/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:190
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f30e8275bb9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 61 17 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 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe2469c4d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000bd
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0072657070752e79 RCX: 00007f30e8275bb9
RDX: 0000200000000040 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000200000000100
RBP: 0031656c69662f2e R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 000000000000fe37 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007ffe2469c6b8 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 288:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:433 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:512 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xda/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:521
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:227 [inline]
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x13c/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4954
 kmemdup+0x26/0x60 mm/util.c:132
 ext4_xattr_block_set+0x7e2/0x2cb0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:1952
 ext4_xattr_set_handle+0xba5/0x12b0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2412
 ext4_xattr_set+0x22a/0x320 fs/ext4/xattr.c:2522
 ext4_xattr_trusted_set+0x3c/0x50 fs/ext4/xattr_trusted.c:38
 __vfs_setxattr+0x3e1/0x430 fs/xattr.c:182
 __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x12a/0x5e0 fs/xattr.c:216
 __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x212/0x230 fs/xattr.c:277
 vfs_setxattr+0x168/0x2f0 fs/xattr.c:303
 do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:588 [inline]
 setxattr+0x2da/0x300 fs/xattr.c:611
 path_setxattr+0x142/0x280 fs/xattr.c:630
 __do_sys_lsetxattr fs/xattr.c:653 [inline]
 __se_sys_lsetxattr fs/xattr.c:649 [inline]
 __x64_sys_lsetxattr+0xc2/0xe0 fs/xattr.c:649
 x64_sys_call+0x8cc/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:190
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888106384800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 112 bytes inside of
 1024-byte region [ffff888106384800, ffff888106384c00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea000418e000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x106380
head:ffffea000418e000 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff888100043080
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 90, ts 21532558027, free_ts 17760441163
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x192/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2605
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2611
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2cc5/0x2d50 mm/page_alloc.c:4485
 __alloc_pages+0x18f/0x440 mm/page_alloc.c:5795
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1932 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa1/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:1995
 ___slab_alloc+0x381/0x810 mm/slub.c:3028
 __slab_alloc+0x49/0x90 mm/slub.c:3115
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3206 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3250 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x146/0x270 mm/slub.c:3267
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:616 [inline]
 syslog_print+0xf9/0x820 kernel/printk/printk.c:1512
 do_syslog+0x6ae/0x780 kernel/printk/printk.c:1691
 __do_sys_syslog kernel/printk/printk.c:1783 [inline]
 __se_sys_syslog kernel/printk/printk.c:1781 [inline]
 __x64_sys_syslog+0x7c/0x90 kernel/printk/printk.c:1781
 x64_sys_call+0x728/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:104
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1472 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1544 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x542/0x550 mm/page_alloc.c:3534
 free_unref_page+0xa2/0x550 mm/page_alloc.c:3616
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:805 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x6c/0x100 mm/page_alloc.c:5871
 __free_slab+0xe8/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:2020
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2035 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2041 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x160/0x190 mm/slub.c:2527
 put_cpu_partial+0xc6/0x120 mm/slub.c:2607
 __slab_free+0x1d4/0x290 mm/slub.c:3390
 do_slab_free mm/slub.c:3509 [inline]
 ___cache_free+0x104/0x120 mm/slub.c:3530
 qlink_free+0x4d/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:157
 qlist_free_all+0x5f/0xb0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14a/0x170 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:443
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:217 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4f/0x2b0 mm/slab.h:550
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3250 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0xf7/0x260 mm/slub.c:3255
 kmem_cache_alloc_node include/linux/slab.h:489 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0xe0/0x740 net/core/skbuff.c:416
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1183 [inline]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xa8/0x620 net/core/skbuff.c:6194

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888106384700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888106384780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888106384800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/02 14:42 android13-5.15-lts f32b52534f1d 7368264b .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry
2025/07/03 01:38 android13-5.15-lts 0d918fa8e88d bc80e4f0 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry
2025/07/03 01:21 android13-5.15-lts 0d918fa8e88d bc80e4f0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_set_entry
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.