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

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/04/23 17:45
Subsystems: block
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+e90526cab23b9efcd03c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 151d, last: 8d03h
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Version Stage Reported Report Link Job
1 moderation 2026/08/07 07:40 Discussion 827b5760-86a0-4f44-9c69-430b572eac12
✨ AI Jobs (7)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
827b5760 patching KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs 2026/08/06 08:33 2026/08/07 06:20 2026/08/07 07:40 c38879ea
40db1e80 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs 2026/08/05 15:59 2026/08/05 19:17 2026/08/05 20:09 e33390b8
76e9ad48 repro Reproduced: ❌ KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs 2026/07/21 13:12 2026/07/21 13:12 2026/07/21 15:04 0d5a7c31
76c97d0e repro 💥 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs 2026/07/21 13:12 2026/07/21 13:12 2026/07/21 22:10 0d5a7c31
414751ba repro 💥 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs 2026/07/17 14:18 2026/07/17 14:18 2026/07/17 18:39 8aaff637
a36f9ec0 repro 💥 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs 2026/07/17 10:11 2026/07/17 10:11 2026/07/17 11:08 7f27c57a
aea3e8a0 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs 2026/05/24 00:27 2026/05/24 00:27 2026/05/24 01:25 c69befb3
Discussions (3)
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[syzbot] [block?] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs 0 (2) 2026/08/06 08:23
[syzbot] Monthly block report (Jul 2026) 0 (1) 2026/07/05 12:32
[syzbot] Monthly block report (Jun 2026) 0 (1) 2026/06/04 04:32
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in blk_mq_free_rqs 2 syz, C inconclusive inconclusive 14 1175d 1645d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/23 18:25
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/06 07:09 26m glider@google.com upstream report log

Sample crash report:
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc11fd08a0
R13: 00007ffc11fd08c0 R14: 0000000000000007 R15: 00007ffc11fd08e0
 </TASK>
block nbd7: shutting down sockets
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in blk_mq_free_rqs+0xde/0x680 block/blk-mq.c:-1
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888026385588 by task syz-executor425/5940

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5940 Comm: syz-executor425 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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
 blk_mq_free_rqs+0xde/0x680 block/blk-mq.c:-1
 blk_mq_free_map_and_rqs+0x40/0xf0 block/blk-mq.c:4148
 blk_mq_free_sched_tags block/blk-mq-sched.c:425 [inline]
 blk_mq_free_sched_res+0xeb/0x280 block/blk-mq-sched.c:436
 elevator_change_done+0x1d2/0x5c0 block/elevator.c:639
 elevator_change+0x34f/0x480 block/elevator.c:685
 elv_iosched_store+0x504/0x630 block/elevator.c:826
 queue_attr_store+0x207/0x2b0 block/blk-sysfs.c:906
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a5/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x61e/0xbb0 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 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: 0033:0x7f3427ac2437
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 88 15 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffc11fd0710 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000555594bc4400 RCX: 00007f3427ac2437
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 00007f3427afdc5b RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 0000000000000007 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007f3427afdc5b
R13: 00007ffc11fd08c0 R14: 0000000000000007 R15: 00007ffc11fd08e0
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1:
 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]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5334 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x584/0x7d0 mm/slub.c:5346
 _kmalloc_array_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1294 [inline]
 blk_mq_alloc_tag_set+0x533/0x1000 block/blk-mq.c:4894
 nbd_dev_add+0x30e/0xb60 drivers/block/nbd.c:1970
 nbd_init+0x15f/0x1e0 drivers/block/nbd.c:2729
 do_one_initcall+0x250/0x870 init/main.c:1347
 do_initcall_level+0x10a/0x1a0 init/main.c:1409
 do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0 init/main.c:1425
 kernel_init_freeable+0x29d/0x3e0 init/main.c:1658
 kernel_init+0x1d/0x1d0 init/main.c:1548
 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 ffff888026385580
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
 allocated 8-byte region [ffff888026385580, ffff888026385588)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888026385f80 pfn:0x26385
flags: 0x80000000000200(workingset|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000200 ffff88801a017500 ffffea0000972d90 ffffea0000a02cd0
raw: ffff888026385f80 0000000800800075 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 0xd2c00(GFP_NOIO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 7259242334, free_ts 0
 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+0x262a/0x26a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x79/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:3380
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3426 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x330/0x690 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5333 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x62d/0x7c0 mm/slub.c:5471
 __kmemdup_nul mm/util.c:64 [inline]
 kstrdup+0x42/0x100 mm/util.c:84
 kobject_set_name_vargs+0x61/0x110 lib/kobject.c:274
 device_create_groups_vargs drivers/base/core.c:4450 [inline]
 device_create+0x23d/0x300 drivers/base/core.c:4493
 bdi_register_va+0x9c/0x7d0 mm/backing-dev.c:1099
 bdi_register+0xe2/0x140 mm/backing-dev.c:1131
 __add_disk+0x7da/0xe30 block/genhd.c:529
 add_disk_fwnode+0x100/0x3a0 block/genhd.c:593
 add_disk include/linux/blkdev.h:800 [inline]
 nbd_dev_add+0x733/0xb60 drivers/block/nbd.c:2021
 nbd_init+0x15f/0x1e0 drivers/block/nbd.c:2729
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888026385480: fa fc fc fc 07 fc fc fc 05 fc fc fc 05 fc fc fc
 ffff888026385500: 05 fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fa fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc
>ffff888026385580: 00 fc fc fc 07 fc fc fc 07 fc fc fc 07 fc fc fc
                      ^
 ffff888026385600: fa fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fa fc fc fc
 ffff888026385680: fa fc fc fc 02 fc fc fc 05 fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (28):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/06 08:22 upstream 0d8395707651 95008c03 .config console log report C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/04/29 05:53 upstream dca922e019dd 95008c03 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/03/19 14:30 upstream 8a30aeb0d1b4 bd6dcb30 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/03/15 20:01 upstream 267594792a71 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/03/22 05:36 upstream 113ae7b4decc 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/06/19 05:08 upstream 83f1454877cc d7ffd47b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/06/17 08:42 upstream 6b5a2b7d9bc1 62cc6db3 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/06/14 21:49 upstream 8cd9520d35a6 4f06757f .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/05/28 08:11 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 4c36e7e5 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/05/25 21:50 upstream e7ae89a0c97c c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/05/19 17:15 upstream ab5fce87a778 2aa09d96 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/05/19 17:13 upstream ab5fce87a778 2aa09d96 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/07/21 01:30 net e13caf1c2658 de6a700d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/06/26 22:59 net 805185b7c7a1 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/03/21 16:17 net bc0151c59e63 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/07/12 02:46 net-next f6f3b36c15ed d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/06/27 14:12 net-next 805185b7c7a1 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/06/19 01:02 net-next b85966adbf5d a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/06/01 17:56 net-next c2c0486c5680 8d8eeb3a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/05/13 05:30 net-next 543bdc1578cd a0949470 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/05/12 04:05 net-next cb880b02117d d168f260 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/05/09 12:06 net-next 8b2feced65cd 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/04/28 12:33 net-next 790ead939486 b4209743 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/04/25 22:52 net-next e728258debd5 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/04/24 21:27 net-next e728258debd5 1c2b9291 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/04/23 17:44 net-next 1f5ffc672165 4c3406dc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/07/04 00:31 upstream d2c9a99135da aa437a8a .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in blk_mq_free_rqs
2026/05/09 12:09 net-next 8b2feced65cd 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce general protection fault in blk_mq_free_rqs
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.