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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/08/15 02:29
Reported-by: syzbot+a08013e80f8d0b18d42b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 64d, last: 15h09m
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget fs reiserfs 19 278 626d 864d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/04/09 13:42
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget 19 2 401d 443d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/21 07:26
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget (3) 19 C 58 145d 218d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/13 17:21
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget 19 42 64d 626d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/01/31 03:06
linux-6.1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget (2) 19 20 1d03h 258d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/02/01 20:39
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget origin:lts 19 C 505 20h25m 199d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/01 19:00
linux-5.15 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget 19 6 731d 774d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/25 22:09
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget 19 13 603d 810d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/22 19:07
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget 19 C 426 1d18h 223d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/08 14:28
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget (2) 19 4 486d 504d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/17 10:19
linux-6.1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget 19 14 565d 821d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/07/09 19:10

Sample crash report:
loop1: detected capacity change from 0 to 512
EXT4-fs: Ignoring removed nobh option
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in check_igot_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:-1 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __ext4_iget+0x2bd/0x3e70 fs/ext4/inode.c:4832
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805c32a050 by task syz.1.11632/32143

CPU: 1 PID: 32143 Comm: syz.1.11632 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xac/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 check_igot_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:-1 [inline]
 __ext4_iget+0x2bd/0x3e70 fs/ext4/inode.c:4832
 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5504 [inline]
 ext4_fill_super+0x4b09/0x66c0 fs/ext4/super.c:5731
 get_tree_bdev+0x3e4/0x510 fs/super.c:1591
 vfs_get_tree+0x8c/0x280 fs/super.c:1764
 do_new_mount+0x24b/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3377
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3717 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3926 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2da/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3903
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f118f79066a
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb a6 e8 de 1a 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f1190573e68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1190573ef0 RCX: 00007f118f79066a
RDX: 0000200000000340 RSI: 0000200000000980 RDI: 00007f1190573eb0
RBP: 0000200000000340 R08: 00007f1190573ef0 R09: 0000000003000010
R10: 0000000003000010 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000980
R13: 00007f1190573eb0 R14: 0000000000000519 R15: 0000200000000100
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 15272:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:328
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x115/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:3526
 alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:2946 [inline]
 reiserfs_alloc_inode+0x2a/0xc0 fs/reiserfs/super.c:642
 alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
 new_inode_pseudo+0x63/0x1d0 fs/inode.c:1049
 new_inode+0x22/0x1b0 fs/inode.c:1075
 reiserfs_mkdir+0x189/0x970 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:813
 xattr_mkdir fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:77 [inline]
 create_privroot fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:891 [inline]
 reiserfs_xattr_init+0x33c/0x6a0 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:1007
 reiserfs_fill_super+0x1f85/0x2340 fs/reiserfs/super.c:2175
 mount_bdev+0x22b/0x2d0 fs/super.c:1643
 legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:662
 vfs_get_tree+0x8c/0x280 fs/super.c:1764
 do_new_mount+0x24b/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3377
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3717 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3926 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2da/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3903
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:2721 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x158/0x930 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2837
 destroy_inode fs/inode.c:316 [inline]
 evict+0x7db/0x870 fs/inode.c:720
 dispose_list fs/inode.c:738 [inline]
 evict_inodes+0x5fe/0x690 fs/inode.c:792
 generic_shutdown_super+0x97/0x2b0 fs/super.c:672
 kill_block_super+0x44/0x90 fs/super.c:1660
 deactivate_locked_super+0x97/0x100 fs/super.c:481
 cleanup_mnt+0x429/0x4c0 fs/namespace.c:1250
 task_work_run+0x1ce/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:239
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xf6/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805c329a80
 which belongs to the cache reiser_inode_cache of size 1568
The buggy address is located 1488 bytes inside of
 freed 1568-byte region [ffff88805c329a80, ffff88805c32a0a0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea000170ca00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88805c32e360 pfn:0x5c328
head:ffffea000170ca00 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888025d6bc01
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff8880187d0780 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: ffff88805c32e360 0000000080130006 00000001ffffffff ffff888025d6bc01
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0x1d20d0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_RECLAIMABLE), pid 9910, tgid 9909 (syz.2.2024), ts 317960923356, free_ts 298979352082
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1cd/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1554
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
 __alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x170 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc6d/0x1300 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x1ae/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:3526
 alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:2946 [inline]
 reiserfs_alloc_inode+0x2a/0xc0 fs/reiserfs/super.c:642
 alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
 iget5_locked+0xa2/0x260 fs/inode.c:1314
 reiserfs_fill_super+0x1170/0x2340 fs/reiserfs/super.c:2053
 mount_bdev+0x22b/0x2d0 fs/super.c:1643
 legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:662
 vfs_get_tree+0x8c/0x280 fs/super.c:1764
 do_new_mount+0x24b/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3377
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3717 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3926 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2da/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3903
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
 __slab_free+0x35e/0x410 mm/slub.c:3736
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:305
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x11e/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:3519
 getname_flags+0xbb/0x500 fs/namei.c:140
 user_path_at_empty+0x2c/0x60 fs/namei.c:2908
 do_readlinkat+0xd8/0x480 fs/stat.c:494
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:527 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:524 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x7f/0x90 fs/stat.c:524
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805c329f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805c329f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88805c32a000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff88805c32a080: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805c32a100: fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/07 22:19 linux-6.6.y e617101e5626 7e2882b3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/08/21 13:39 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 3e79b825 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/08/19 13:22 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 254a27c1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/08/15 02:28 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/10/17 21:49 linux-6.6.y 0bbbd97a442d 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.