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

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/05/30 09:24
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+5e9a0234f9112563202d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d03h, last: 7d03h

Sample crash report:
FAT-fs (loop0): Invalid FSINFO signature: 0x41615252, 0x80417272 (sector = 1)
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88806293ae90 by task syz.0.240/7482

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7482 Comm: syz.0.240 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:574
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x84/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
 rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xbf/0x8b0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1426
 end_dirop fs/namei.c:2952 [inline]
 end_creating include/linux/namei.h:123 [inline]
 end_creating_path fs/namei.c:4990 [inline]
 filename_mkdirat+0x311/0x520 fs/namei.c:5299
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:5315 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat+0x35/0x150 fs/namei.c:5312
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7f0ad209ce59
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:00007f0ad02f6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000102
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0ad2315fa0 RCX: 00007f0ad209ce59
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00002000000004c0 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f0ad2132d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0ad2316038 R14: 00007f0ad2315fa0 R15: 00007ffc131430c8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 7482:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4570 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4899 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x33c/0x680 mm/slub.c:4918
 __d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1807
 d_alloc+0x4b/0x190 fs/dcache.c:1886
 lookup_one_qstr_excl+0xd8/0x360 fs/namei.c:1801
 __start_dirop fs/namei.c:2916 [inline]
 start_dirop fs/namei.c:2938 [inline]
 filename_create+0x20e/0x370 fs/namei.c:4950
 filename_mkdirat+0xd2/0x520 fs/namei.c:5287
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:5315 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat+0x35/0x150 fs/namei.c:5312
 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 28:
 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:2689 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6251 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x187/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6378
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869 [inline]
 rcu_cpu_kthread+0x99e/0x1470 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2957
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x541/0xa50 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 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

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3131 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3251
 __dentry_kill+0x4a9/0x690 fs/dcache.c:737
 finish_dput+0xc9/0x480 fs/dcache.c:927
 path_put+0x39/0x60 fs/namei.c:717
 vfs_statx+0x138/0x200 fs/stat.c:357
 vfs_fstatat fs/stat.c:373 [inline]
 vfs_lstat include/linux/fs.h:3212 [inline]
 __do_sys_newlstat fs/stat.c:524 [inline]
 __se_sys_newlstat fs/stat.c:518 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newlstat+0x125/0x1e0 fs/stat.c:518
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88806293adc0
 which belongs to the cache dentry of size 376
The buggy address is located 208 bytes inside of
 freed 376-byte region [ffff88806293adc0, ffff88806293af38)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x6293a
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff88806293bef1
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88801b6e83c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800120012 00000000f5000000 ffff88806293bef1
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88801b6e83c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800120012 00000000f5000000 ffff88806293bef1
head: 0080000000000001 ffffffffffffff81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0xd20d0(__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4965, tgid 4965 (udevd), ts 96191026007, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x22d/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1858
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1866 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x27c8/0x2840 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5226
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x33c/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7272
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x373/0x720 mm/slub.c:4652
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4750 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4884 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x433/0x680 mm/slub.c:4918
 __d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1807
 d_alloc_parallel+0xe6/0x1610 fs/dcache.c:2671
 __lookup_slow+0x152/0x440 fs/namei.c:1900
 lookup_slow+0x53/0x70 fs/namei.c:1932
 walk_component fs/namei.c:2278 [inline]
 lookup_last fs/namei.c:2785 [inline]
 path_lookupat+0x3f5/0x8c0 fs/namei.c:2809
 filename_lookup+0x256/0x5d0 fs/namei.c:2838
 vfs_statx+0xfc/0x200 fs/stat.c:353
 vfs_fstatat+0x11b/0x170 fs/stat.c:373
 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:538 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:532 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x151/0x200 fs/stat.c:532
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88806293ad80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88806293ae00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88806293ae80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88806293af00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa
 ffff88806293af80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/26 09:22 upstream e8c2f9fdadee a3e47276 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in filename_mkdirat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.