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

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/05/03 02:16
Subsystems: erofs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+52bae5c495dbe261a0bc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: 1aee05e814d2 erofs: fix use-after-free on sbi->sync_decompress
Patched on: [ci-qemu2-arm32 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-root ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 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-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 42d, last: 16d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
520b2757-c158-4e29-a75c-77d7bbb79497 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in z_erofs_decompress_kickoff 2026/05/25 22:09 2026/05/25 22:09 2026/05/25 22:58 c69befb30ac10e158cc9d1557b508ee3f0eca1de
60774bc5-77a0-4431-8291-c4f13cff44e0 moderation Actionable: ✅ Confident: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in z_erofs_decompress_kickoff 2026/05/04 00:02 2026/05/04 00:02 2026/05/04 00:28 a0d91488fc4a789de6e559c15c02b0633b053c1d
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[PATCH] erofs: fix use-after-free on sbi->sync_decompress 2 (2) 2026/05/22 13:00

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in z_erofs_decompress_kickoff+0x371/0x3d0 fs/erofs/zdata.c:1475
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880328ae168 by task kworker/u8:12/1364

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1364 Comm: kworker/u8:12 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Comput[  433.002871][    C1] Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Workqueue: wg-kex-wg1 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 z_erofs_decompress_kickoff+0x371/0x3d0 fs/erofs/zdata.c:1475
 z_erofs_endio+0xb28/0xd40 fs/erofs/zdata.c:1656
 blk_update_request+0x57e/0xe60 block/blk-mq.c:1016
 blk_mq_end_request+0x3e/0x70 block/blk-mq.c:1178
 blk_complete_reqs block/blk-mq.c:1253 [inline]
 blk_done_softirq+0x10a/0x160 block/blk-mq.c:1258
 handle_softirqs+0x1de/0x6d0 kernel/softirq.c:626
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:660 [inline]
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x170/0x2b0 kernel/softirq.c:302
 local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:116 [inline]
 wg_index_hashtable_insert+0x12e/0x8c0 drivers/net/wireguard/peerlookup.c:126
 wg_noise_handshake_create_initiation+0x64e/0x830 drivers/net/wireguard/noise.c:569
 wg_packet_send_handshake_initiation drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:34 [inline]
 wg_packet_handshake_send_worker+0x18d/0x350 drivers/net/wireguard/send.c:51
 process_one_work+0x98b/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3318
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3401 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xb49/0x1140 kernel/workqueue.c:3482
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 9209:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3a6/0x690 mm/slub.c:5425
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:967 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1284 [inline]
 erofs_init_fs_context+0x54/0x290 fs/erofs/super.c:897
 alloc_fs_context+0x9d5/0xd50 fs/fs_context.c:295
 do_new_mount+0x187/0xd30 fs/namespace.c:3819
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4172 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4388 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4365
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0x560 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5641:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2700 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6284 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6599
 erofs_sb_free fs/erofs/super.c:875 [inline]
 erofs_kill_sb+0x26a/0x2a0 fs/erofs/super.c:939
 deactivate_locked_super+0xbc/0x130 fs/super.c:476
 cleanup_mnt+0x437/0x4d0 fs/namespace.c:1317
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 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:67 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xf3/0x4d0 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x33e/0x560 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880328ae000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 360 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff8880328ae000, ffff8880328ae400)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x328a8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813fe1ddc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813fe1ddc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1836, tgid 1836 (kworker/u8:21), ts 195942774814, free_ts 192158703983
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1866
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1874 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x265c/0x26e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3953
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5296
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3289 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x74/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:3404
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3447 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x33c/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7226
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2827 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x373/0x720 mm/slub.c:4665
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4763 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4897 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5308 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x530/0x7b0 mm/slub.c:5322
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:971 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1284 [inline]
 ieee802_11_parse_elems_full+0x14f/0x2ba0 net/mac80211/parse.c:1058
 ieee802_11_parse_elems net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:2506 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_beacon net/mac80211/ibss.c:1568 [inline]
 ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt+0x4ca/0x2cb0 net/mac80211/ibss.c:1599
 ieee80211_iface_process_skb net/mac80211/iface.c:1757 [inline]
 ieee80211_iface_work+0x78b/0x1020 net/mac80211/iface.c:1811
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x2cf/0x460 net/wireless/core.c:538
 process_one_work+0x98b/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3318
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3401 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xb49/0x1140 kernel/workqueue.c:3482
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
page last free pid 6772 tgid 6772 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1413 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x10af/0x1190 mm/page_alloc.c:2957
 __slab_free+0x252/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:5646
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4583 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4912 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x33c/0x680 mm/slub.c:4931
 __d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1813
 d_alloc_parallel+0xe6/0x1610 fs/dcache.c:2681
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:4411 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4596 [inline]
 path_openat+0xccb/0x3960 fs/namei.c:4844
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4876
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1368
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1374 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1390 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1385 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1385
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0x560 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880328ae000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880328ae080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880328ae100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                          ^
 ffff8880328ae180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880328ae200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/25 18:12 linux-next c1ecb239fa34 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in z_erofs_decompress_kickoff
2026/04/29 02:08 linux-next 9974969c1403 95008c03 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in z_erofs_decompress_kickoff
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.