KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in cachefiles_set_object_xattr

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/14 09:05
Subsystems: netfs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+62b392c7348147ad767d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 2d10h
✨ AI Jobs (2)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
91003057 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in cachefiles_set_object_xattr 2026/08/13 20:02 2026/08/13 21:31 2026/08/13 23:08 0165196a
e6c8d8cd assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in cachefiles_set_object_xattr 2026/08/02 01:21 2026/08/02 01:21 2026/08/02 02:12 e611ffe1
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] cachefiles: Fix OOB access in coherency trace 1 (1) 2026/08/16 18:55
[syzbot] [netfs?] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in cachefiles_set_object_xattr 0 (1) 2026/08/14 09:05
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/14 08:23 14m nogikh@google.com upstream report job log log

Sample crash report:
evm: overlay not supported
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BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __swab64p include/uapi/linux/swab.h:202 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __be64_to_cpup include/uapi/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:75 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cachefiles_set_object_xattr+0x713/0x7a0 fs/cachefiles/xattr.c:88
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801c329b52 by task kworker/u33:5/163

CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 163 Comm: kworker/u33:5 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: fscache fscache_cookie_worker
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __swab64p include/uapi/linux/swab.h:202 [inline]
 __be64_to_cpup include/uapi/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:75 [inline]
 cachefiles_set_object_xattr+0x713/0x7a0 fs/cachefiles/xattr.c:88
 cachefiles_commit_object fs/cachefiles/interface.c:319 [inline]
 cachefiles_clean_up_object fs/cachefiles/interface.c:344 [inline]
 cachefiles_withdraw_cookie+0x8f4/0xc50 fs/cachefiles/interface.c:381
 fscache_cookie_state_machine fs/netfs/fscache_cookie.c:780 [inline]
 fscache_cookie_worker+0x54f/0x1270 fs/netfs/fscache_cookie.c:835
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3322
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3405 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 163:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5334 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x322/0x820 mm/slub.c:5359
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:992 [inline]
 cachefiles_set_object_xattr+0xef/0x7a0 fs/cachefiles/xattr.c:53
 cachefiles_commit_object fs/cachefiles/interface.c:319 [inline]
 cachefiles_clean_up_object fs/cachefiles/interface.c:344 [inline]
 cachefiles_withdraw_cookie+0x8f4/0xc50 fs/cachefiles/interface.c:381
 fscache_cookie_state_machine fs/netfs/fscache_cookie.c:780 [inline]
 fscache_cookie_worker+0x54f/0x1270 fs/netfs/fscache_cookie.c:835
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3322
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3405 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88801c329b40
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-32 of size 32
The buggy address is located 18 bytes inside of
 allocated 22-byte region [ffff88801c329b40, ffff88801c329b56)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1c329
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88801bc42780 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800400040 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2800(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5919, tgid 5919 (dhcpcd-run-hook), ts 64295555076, free_ts 64295085659
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xf48/0x3530 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x299/0x2dc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3380 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa2/0x640 mm/slub.c:3426
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x376/0x680 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x479/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2629 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6377 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x412/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:6504
 tear_down_vmas+0x2a5/0x600 mm/mmap.c:1262
 exit_mmap+0x469/0xa00 mm/mmap.c:1320
 __mmput+0x12a/0x410 kernel/fork.c:1187
 mmput+0x67/0x80 kernel/fork.c:1210
 exit_mm kernel/exit.c:615 [inline]
 do_exit+0x8b1/0x2ae0 kernel/exit.c:997
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1152
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1163 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1161 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3e/0x50 kernel/exit.c:1161
 x64_sys_call+0x102c/0x1530 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
page last free pid 5919 tgid 5919 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x1090 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 tlb_batch_list_free mm/mmu_gather.c:161 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x27d/0x810 mm/mmu_gather.c:552
 exit_mmap+0x454/0xa00 mm/mmap.c:1313
 __mmput+0x12a/0x410 kernel/fork.c:1187
 mmput+0x67/0x80 kernel/fork.c:1210
 exit_mm kernel/exit.c:615 [inline]
 do_exit+0x8b1/0x2ae0 kernel/exit.c:997
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1152
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1163 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1161 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3e/0x50 kernel/exit.c:1161
 x64_sys_call+0x102c/0x1530 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88801c329a00: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
 ffff88801c329a80: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
>ffff88801c329b00: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc 00 00 06 fc fc fc fc fc
                                                 ^
 ffff88801c329b80: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
 ffff88801c329c00: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/14 09:04 upstream 2f1baf1fc892 7664cf44 .config console log report C ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in cachefiles_set_object_xattr
2026/07/31 20:11 upstream 8ba098e6b6ff 7664cf44 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in cachefiles_set_object_xattr
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.