KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/14 23:26
Reported-by: syzbot+e9c2cc0e1e674e43ef5a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 15d
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries (2) actionable prio:high ext4 19 5 5d13h 50d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/06/09 21:03
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries ext4 19 4 201d 293d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/10 00:23
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries 19 syz, C error 15 168d 193d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/18 01:47

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs (loop2): encrypted files will use data=ordered instead of data journaling mode
EXT4-fs (loop2): 1 truncate cleaned up
EXT4-fs (loop2): mounted filesystem without journal. Quota mode: none.
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_list_entries+0x2d8/0x380 fs/ext4/xattr.c:670
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88812968e018 by task syz.2.17/372

CPU: 1 PID: 372 Comm: syz.2.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/25/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x71/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:316
 print_report+0x4a/0x60 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x122/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:350
 ext4_xattr_list_entries+0x2d8/0x380 fs/ext4/xattr.c:670
 ext4_xattr_ibody_list fs/ext4/xattr.c:740 [inline]
 ext4_listxattr+0x20e/0x600 fs/ext4/xattr.c:765
 vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:457 [inline]
 listxattr+0x2a8/0x310 fs/xattr.c:804
 path_listxattr+0xe1/0x1b0 fs/xattr.c:828
 __do_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:840 [inline]
 __se_sys_listxattr fs/xattr.c:837 [inline]
 __x64_sys_listxattr+0x80/0x90 fs/xattr.c:837
 x64_sys_call+0xd7/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:195
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f866eb9de59
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:00007ffdd095bdc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000c2
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f866ee25fa0 RCX: 00007f866eb9de59
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000200000000140
RBP: 00007f866ec33e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f866ee25fac R14: 00007f866ee25fa0 R15: 00007f866ee25fa0
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0004a5a380 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x12968e
flags: 0x4000000000000000(zone=1)
raw: 4000000000000000 ffffea0004a5a3c8 ffffea0004a5a448 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x8140dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_CMA), pid 372, tgid 372 (syz.2.17), ts 36177402137, free_ts 36179337566
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f5/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:2672
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2679
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2ca9/0x2d20 mm/page_alloc.c:4586
 __alloc_pages+0x1fa/0x610 mm/page_alloc.c:5930
 __folio_alloc+0x12/0x40 mm/page_alloc.c:5963
 __folio_alloc_node include/linux/gfp.h:245 [inline]
 folio_alloc include/linux/gfp.h:274 [inline]
 alloc_page_vma include/linux/gfp.h:283 [inline]
 do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:4286 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5181 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5325 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1989/0x26b0 mm/memory.c:5465
 do_user_addr_fault+0x900/0x1030 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1321
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1464 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x51/0xb0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1517
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1580 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1654 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x80c/0x820 mm/page_alloc.c:3621
 free_unref_page_list+0x117/0x8d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3772
 release_pages+0xc7e/0xce0 mm/swap.c:1053
 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x86/0xa0 mm/swap_state.c:316
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:59 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:254 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:261 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x1b2/0x380 mm/mmu_gather.c:361
 unmap_region+0x2b7/0x320 mm/mmap.c:2419
 do_mas_align_munmap+0xbf3/0x1330 mm/mmap.c:2693
 do_mas_munmap+0x23d/0x2b0 mm/mmap.c:2751
 __vm_munmap+0x1af/0x310 mm/mmap.c:3050
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:3076 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:3072 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x6b/0x80 mm/mmap.c:3072
 x64_sys_call+0x8a/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:12
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88812968df00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88812968df80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88812968e000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                            ^
 ffff88812968e080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88812968e100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/14 23:52 android14-6.1 e69716042404 2130f682 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2026/07/14 23:29 android14-6.1 e69716042404 2130f682 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2026/07/15 00:16 android14-6.1 e69716042404 2130f682 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2026/07/14 23:24 android14-6.1 e69716042404 2130f682 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2026/07/14 22:52 android14-6.1 e69716042404 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2026/07/14 22:54 android14-6.1 e69716042404 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.