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KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2023/04/26 06:52
Bug presence: origin:upstream
Labels: missing-backport
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Reported-by: syzbot+f3117ba42f5190608948@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 934d, last: 11d
Fix commit to backport (bisect log) :
tree: upstream
commit fb6f20ecb121cef4d7946f834a6ee867c4e21b4a
Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Thu Oct 17 10:28:23 2024 +0000

  reiserfs: The last commit

  
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Bug presence (3)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2024/12/17 linux-5.15.y (ToT) 963e654022cc C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry
2023/09/02 upstream (ToT) 0468be89b3fa C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry
2024/12/17 upstream (ToT) f44d154d6e3d C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry reiserfs 19 C 1 1003d 1003d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/02/16 03:16
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry origin:upstream missing-backport 19 C done 5 267d 895d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/06/03 22:29
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in reiserfs_find_entry fs 19 C error done 25 687d 1124d 25/29 fixed on 2024/02/02 11:15
Last patch testing requests (8)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/10/08 11:48 10m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
2025/09/20 12:42 15m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
2025/07/28 21:33 9m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
2025/07/11 20:43 10m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
2025/05/19 08:27 14m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
2025/05/01 15:30 10m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
2025/03/06 01:20 10m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
2025/02/19 21:40 29m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
Fix bisection attempts (3)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/03/21 11:50 8h17m fix candidate upstream OK (1) job log
2023/10/30 08:48 0m bisect fix linux-5.15.y error job log
2023/09/01 14:57 59m bisect fix linux-5.15.y OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
REISERFS (device loop0): using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
REISERFS (device loop0): journal params: device loop0, size 512, journal first block 18, max trans len 256, max batch 225, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
REISERFS (device loop0): checking transaction log (loop0)
REISERFS (device loop0): Using tea hash to sort names
REISERFS (device loop0): using 3.5.x disk format
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in set_de_name_and_namelen fs/reiserfs/namei.c:81 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in linear_search_in_dir_item fs/reiserfs/namei.c:262 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in reiserfs_find_entry+0xc6d/0x18e0 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:331
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88806b092f83 by task syz.0.17/4361

CPU: 0 PID: 4361 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 set_de_name_and_namelen fs/reiserfs/namei.c:81 [inline]
 linear_search_in_dir_item fs/reiserfs/namei.c:262 [inline]
 reiserfs_find_entry+0xc6d/0x18e0 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:331
 reiserfs_lookup+0x1a7/0x420 fs/reiserfs/namei.c:368
 __lookup_slow+0x27d/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:1671
 lookup_one_len+0x18e/0x2c0 fs/namei.c:2726
 reiserfs_lookup_privroot+0x85/0x1e0 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:980
 reiserfs_fill_super+0x1f65/0x23e0 fs/reiserfs/super.c:2178
 mount_bdev+0x287/0x3c0 fs/super.c:1400
 legacy_get_tree+0xe6/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:611
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3034
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3377 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3585 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2d6/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3562
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f377d52d76a
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:00007ffd0532fdc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd0532fe50 RCX: 00007f377d52d76a
RDX: 0000200000000000 RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: 00007ffd0532fe10
RBP: 0000200000000000 R08: 00007ffd0532fe50 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000040
R13: 00007ffd0532fe10 R14: 000000000000111d R15: 0000200000000300
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001ac2480 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x6b092
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001ac24c8 ffffea0001ac2448 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 0x1100dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO), pid 4189, ts 54511601131, free_ts 57624754230
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1b77/0x1c60 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1e1/0x470 mm/page_alloc.c:5487
 alloc_pages_vma+0x393/0x7c0 mm/mempolicy.c:2146
 do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:3838 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4648 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:4785 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x237f/0x43b0 mm/memory.c:4883
 do_user_addr_fault+0x489/0xc80 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1357
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1445 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x60/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1501
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:606
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page_list+0x122/0x7e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3433
 release_pages+0x184b/0x1bb0 mm/swap.c:963
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:49 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:240 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:247 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x164/0x2e0 mm/mmu_gather.c:338
 unmap_region+0x315/0x360 mm/mmap.c:2669
 __do_munmap+0x9d3/0xdc0 mm/mmap.c:2899
 __vm_munmap+0x137/0x230 mm/mmap.c:2952
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:2978 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:2974 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x67/0x70 mm/mmap.c:2974
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88806b092e80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88806b092f00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88806b092f80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                   ^
 ffff88806b093000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88806b093080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/03 19:21 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 2c50b6a9 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry
2023/06/24 21:54 linux-5.15.y f67653019430 79782afc .config console log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry
2023/06/03 19:15 linux-5.15.y 0ab06468cbd1 a4ae4f42 .config console log report syz C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry
2023/09/29 23:52 linux-5.15.y b911329317b4 8e26a358 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry
2025/04/02 20:08 linux-5.15.y 0c935c049b5c c799dfdd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry
2023/04/26 06:51 linux-5.15.y 3299fb36854f 65320f8e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in reiserfs_find_entry
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.