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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/04/05 21:30
Subsystems: gfs2
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+84a21b16aba9f279d96a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 167d, last: 1d02h
✨ AI Jobs (4)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
083e3e32-05e9-43ed-bf07-2603baf16d99 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain 2026/06/01 08:09 2026/06/01 08:09 2026/06/01 09:09 6b4a844333e83556da95d61d7f207e7ef5cd4bc6

			
		
822a6f54-ff25-4ea7-9882-67c3c4118240 assessment-security 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain 2026/05/15 10:39 2026/05/15 10:39 2026/05/15 10:40 9cd3beaadf14b3a22d15fd97a0bf081ee41ebe01
failed to run ["make" "KERNELVERSION=syzkaller" "KERNELRELEASE=syzkaller" "LOCALVERSION=-syzkaller" "-j" "32" "ARCH=x86_64" "CC=ccache clang" "LD=ld.lld" "O=/app/workdir/cache/build/0f0d9fde4603707e32...
truncated to first 200 bytes; open job for full error
6a5040ad-39b4-4edb-bc3d-26483b55f98c repro KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain 2026/03/07 13:07 2026/03/07 13:07 2026/03/07 13:17 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0

			
		
2b286aba-f6cd-4212-9056-8e39f04e3e00 moderation Actionable: ✅ Confident: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain 2026/02/06 07:04 2026/02/06 08:33 2026/02/06 08:48 9b618abc0cd923b36c7a5ebc58a21174112d8f70

			
		
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH] gfs2: keep LRU glocks with pending AIL during withdraw 1 (1) 2026/07/09 17:17
[syzbot] [gfs2?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain 0 (1) 2026/04/05 21:30

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x92/0x190 lib/list_debug.c:62
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888011db8118 by task kworker/0:2/803

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 803 Comm: kworker/0:2 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: events gfs2_withdraw_func
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
 __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x92/0x190 lib/list_debug.c:62
 __list_del_entry_valid include/linux/list.h:132 [inline]
 __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:246 [inline]
 list_del_init include/linux/list.h:318 [inline]
 gfs2_remove_from_ail fs/gfs2/log.c:79 [inline]
 gfs2_ail_empty_tr fs/gfs2/log.c:287 [inline]
 gfs2_ail_drain+0x1be/0xb20 fs/gfs2/log.c:946
 do_withdraw+0x10d/0x2f0 fs/gfs2/util.c:126
 gfs2_withdraw_func+0x2ef/0x440 fs/gfs2/util.c:-1
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 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 5329:
 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:4612 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4945 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2a0/0x5f0 mm/slub.c:4959
 gfs2_glock_get+0x276/0xf20 fs/gfs2/glock.c:1098
 gfs2_create_inode+0xdc6/0x1710 fs/gfs2/inode.c:835
 gfs2_mkdir+0x9f/0xd0 fs/gfs2/inode.c:1354
 vfs_mkdir+0x406/0x620 fs/namei.c:5276
 filename_mkdirat+0x285/0x510 fs/namei.c:5309
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:5330 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat+0x35/0x150 fs/namei.c:5327
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5336:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 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:2705 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6405 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x182/0x650 mm/slub.c:6532
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2645 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x78b/0x10a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2897
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:735
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:752
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674

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:3159 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xee/0x8b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3279
 gfs2_glock_free+0x3c/0xa0 fs/gfs2/glock.c:152
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 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

Second to 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
 insert_work+0x3d/0x330 kernel/workqueue.c:2226
 __queue_work+0xcd8/0x10a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2401
 queue_delayed_work_on+0x11a/0x1e0 kernel/workqueue.c:2620
 queue_delayed_work include/linux/workqueue.h:714 [inline]
 gfs2_glock_queue_work fs/gfs2/glock.c:224 [inline]
 do_xmote+0x539/0x770 fs/gfs2/glock.c:745
 glock_work_func+0x2ef/0x600 fs/gfs2/glock.c:1011
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888011db8000
 which belongs to the cache gfs2_glock(aspace) of size 1176
The buggy address is located 280 bytes inside of
 freed 1176-byte region [ffff888011db8000, ffff888011db8498)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x11db8
head: order:2 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88803230d780 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 00000008000c000c 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88803230d780 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 00000008000c000c 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000002 ffffffffffffff01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000004
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5329, tgid 5328 (syz.0.0), ts 104878388141, free_ts 101478265710
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x21fa/0x2270 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3294 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x79/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:3408
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3454 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7338
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2832 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2bf/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:4703
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4801 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4933 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x382/0x5f0 mm/slub.c:4959
 gfs2_glock_get+0x276/0xf20 fs/gfs2/glock.c:1098
 gfs2_inode_lookup+0x2a3/0xc30 fs/gfs2/inode.c:149
 gfs2_lookup_root fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:426 [inline]
 init_sb+0xa55/0x1300 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:495
 gfs2_fill_super+0x1615/0x20b0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1217
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x430/0x4f0 fs/super.c:1634
 gfs2_get_tree+0x51/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1694
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3765 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x319/0xdc0 fs/namespace.c:3841
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4174 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4390 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4367
page last free pid 28 tgid 28 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc1e/0xd10 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 __folio_put+0x4b3/0x590 mm/swap.c:112
 folio_put include/linux/mm.h:2124 [inline]
 migrate_folio_done mm/migrate.c:1199 [inline]
 migrate_folio_move mm/migrate.c:1430 [inline]
 migrate_folios_move mm/migrate.c:1738 [inline]
 migrate_pages_batch+0x3be1/0x4e50 mm/migrate.c:1994
 migrate_pages_sync mm/migrate.c:2024 [inline]
 migrate_pages+0x1b9f/0x2920 mm/migrate.c:2133
 compact_zone+0x310e/0x4a30 mm/compaction.c:2668
 compact_node+0x210/0x310 mm/compaction.c:2937
 kcompactd+0xc0b/0x12c0 mm/compaction.c:3235
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888011db8000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888011db8080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888011db8100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff888011db8180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888011db8200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/14 07:34 upstream 0f26556c5eee 2130f682 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain
2026/05/23 09:33 upstream cca95436be15 c69befb3 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain
2026/05/06 14:42 upstream 74fe02ce122a 23ad3581 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain
2026/04/05 21:29 upstream 1791c390149f 4440e7c2 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain
2026/04/05 21:22 upstream 1791c390149f 4440e7c2 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain
2026/03/03 20:30 upstream af4e9ef3d784 4180d919 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain
2026/02/03 11:45 upstream 6bd9ed02871f 6df4c87a .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain
2026/01/29 06:04 upstream 8dfce8991b95 0adc945e .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_ail_drain
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.