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KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/14 03:44
Reported-by: syzbot+52813a2561e5222492ee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 661d, last: 10d
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree ext4 19 C done error 6 32d 524d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/08/28 22:55
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree origin:upstream 19 C 6 3d05h 10d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/25 06:15
android-54 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree 17 C 1 296d 661d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/14 03:10
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in number (4) kernel 7 C 7189 1169d 1547d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/11/28 10:01
android-6-1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree origin:upstream 17 C error 1 50d 661d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/14 08:35
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree ext4 7 C 267 599d 645d 27/29 fixed on 2024/08/14 03:44
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in htree_dirblock_to_tree ext4 7 204 997d 1127d 22/29 fixed on 2023/07/01 16:05
Last patch testing requests (9)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/12/17 22:50 32m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/10/08 17:45 8m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/07/28 22:27 12m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/05/19 11:42 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/03/10 07:13 10m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2024/12/30 04:53 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2024/10/20 00:19 15m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2024/08/08 21:05 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2024/04/28 11:20 4m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs (loop2): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: errors=remount-ro,
EXT4-fs error (device loop2): ext4_validate_block_bitmap:438: comm syz.2.18: bg 0: block 465: padding at end of block bitmap is not set
EXT4-fs (loop2): Remounting filesystem read-only
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_read_inline_data fs/ext4/inline.c:209 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree+0x5f6/0xfd0 fs/ext4/inline.c:1419
Read of size 52 at addr ffff888110d1205f by task syz.2.18/398

CPU: 1 PID: 398 Comm: syz.2.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x1a7/0x208 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:435 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xe2/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x249/0x2a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 memcpy+0x2d/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:65
 ext4_read_inline_data fs/ext4/inline.c:209 [inline]
 ext4_inlinedir_to_tree+0x5f6/0xfd0 fs/ext4/inline.c:1419
 ext4_htree_fill_tree+0x508/0x1160 fs/ext4/namei.c:1186
 ext4_dx_readdir fs/ext4/dir.c:601 [inline]
 ext4_readdir+0x2c49/0x3ab0 fs/ext4/dir.c:145
 iterate_dir+0x260/0x570 fs/readdir.c:-1
 __do_sys_getdents fs/readdir.c:286 [inline]
 __se_sys_getdents+0xf2/0x250 fs/readdir.c:271
 __x64_sys_getdents+0x7b/0x90 fs/readdir.c:271
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f105f1e9cb9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffde3506fe8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f105f464fa0 RCX: 00007f105f1e9cb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f105f257bf7 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f105f464fac R14: 00007f105f464fa0 R15: 00007f105f464fa0

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004434480 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x110d12
flags: 0x4000000000000000()
raw: 4000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffea0000000000 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 97, ts 5068914273, free_ts 25866068394
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:35 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:2456 [inline]
 prep_new_page+0x179/0x180 mm/page_alloc.c:2462
 get_page_from_freelist+0x223b/0x23d0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x290/0x620 mm/page_alloc.c:5370
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1813 [inline]
 new_slab+0x84/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:1874
 new_slab_objects mm/slub.c:2632 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x2a6/0x450 mm/slub.c:2796
 __slab_alloc+0x63/0xa0 mm/slub.c:2836
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2918 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1ac/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2965
 getname_flags+0xb9/0x500 fs/namei.c:141
 getname+0x19/0x20 fs/namei.c:212
 do_sys_openat2+0xde/0x750 fs/open.c:1213
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1235 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1251 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1246 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x136/0x160 fs/open.c:1246
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:28 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1349 [inline]
 __free_pages_ok+0x80b/0x830 mm/page_alloc.c:1629
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:5431 [inline]
 __free_pages+0xd8/0x3b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5440
 __free_slab+0xcf/0x190 mm/slub.c:1899
 free_slab mm/slub.c:1914 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:1920 [inline]
 unfreeze_partials+0x15f/0x190 mm/slub.c:2415
 put_cpu_partial+0xc1/0x180 mm/slub.c:2451
 __slab_free+0x2c9/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:3100
 do_slab_free mm/slub.c:3196 [inline]
 ___cache_free+0x10e/0x130 mm/slub.c:3215
 qlink_free+0x50/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:157
 qlist_free_all+0x5f/0xb0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14a/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:440
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:244 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x5d/0x2f0 mm/slab.h:580
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2952 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x162/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2965
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:657 [inline]
 __alloc_file+0x28/0x320 fs/file_table.c:101
 alloc_empty_file+0x97/0x180 fs/file_table.c:151
 alloc_file+0x59/0x540 fs/file_table.c:193

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888110d11f00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888110d11f80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff888110d12000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                                                    ^
 ffff888110d12080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888110d12100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================
EXT4-fs error (device loop2): ext4_inlinedir_to_tree:1457: inode #12: block 7: comm syz.2.18: path /1/file1/file0: bad entry in directory: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=39503, inode=3885038053, rec_len=39499, size=112 fake=0

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/24 05:26 android13-5.10-lts 5601baec60aa 4f25b9b4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (corrupt fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree
2024/04/14 03:43 android13-5.10-lts 4e1bc8d8e8ae c8349e48 .config strace log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1] [mounted in repro #2] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree
2026/01/24 16:05 android13-5.10-lts 5601baec60aa 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree
2026/01/24 04:53 android13-5.10-lts 5601baec60aa 4f25b9b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree
2026/01/24 04:53 android13-5.10-lts 5601baec60aa 4f25b9b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree
2026/01/24 16:06 android13-5.10-lts 5601baec60aa 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree
2026/01/24 16:06 android13-5.10-lts 5601baec60aa 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_inlinedir_to_tree
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.