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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/21 08:28
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+e8b3520b53e78e90034e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 125d, last: 5d09h
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4792bef1-6cb5-40ff-a508-95dc1e371697 assessment-security 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache (2) 2026/05/14 14:18 2026/05/14 14:18 2026/05/14 14:19 6ccb967e465e832a7bfd7a116ad00d52a0923a5d failed to run ["git" "pull" "origin" "HEAD" "--depth=1" "--allow-unrelated-histories"]: exit status 128 From /app/workdir/repo/linux * branch HEAD -> FETCH_HEAD Updating files: 21% (19438/92211) Updating files: 22% (20287/92211) Updating files: 23% (21209/92211) Updating files: 24% (22131/92211) Updating files: 25% (23053/92211) Updating files: 26% (23975/92211) Updating files: 27% (24897/92211) Updating files: 28% (25820/92211) Updating files: 29% (26742/92211) Updating files: 30% (27664/92211) Updating files: 31% (28586/92211) Updating files: 31% (28630/92211) Updating files: 32% (29508/92211) Updating files: 33% (30430/92211) Updating files: 34% (31352/92211) error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/dispcc-sm8250.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/dispcc-sm8450.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/dispcc-sm8550.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/dispcc-sm8750.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/dispcc-x1e80100.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/dispcc0-sa8775p.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/dispcc1-sa8775p.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/ecpricc-qdu1000.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-apq8084.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-glymur.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-ipq4019.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-ipq5018.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-ipq5332.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-ipq5424.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-ipq6018.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-ipq806x.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-ipq8074.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-ipq9574.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-mdm9607.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-mdm9615.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-milos.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8660.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8909.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8916.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8917.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8939.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8953.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8960.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8974.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8976.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8994.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8996.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-msm8998.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-qcm2290.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-qcs404.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-qcs615.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-qcs8300.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-qdu1000.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sa8775p.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sar2130p.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sc7180.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sc7280.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sc8180x.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sc8280xp.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sdm660.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sdm845.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sdx55.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sdx65.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sdx75.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm4450.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm6115.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm6125.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm6350.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm6375.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm7150.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm8150.c error: unable to write file drivers/clk/qcom/gcc-sm8250.c error: unable to write
6bb0a4d8-8089-4a88-aa58-d098636af10c repro KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache (2) 2026/03/06 20:43 2026/03/06 20:43 2026/03/06 20:51 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
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[syzbot] [fs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache (2) 0 (1) 2026/01/21 08:28
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache fs 19 1 250d 246d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/23 02:53
upstream general protection fault in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache fs 2 1 1746d 1742d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/11/08 05:37

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88805fbfc5f8 by task syz.4.1898/10679

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 10679 Comm: syz.4.1898 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:574
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x84/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
 rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xbf/0x8b0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1426
 proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache+0x3db/0x6c0 fs/proc/inode.c:143
 release_task+0x1207/0x16f0 kernel/exit.c:291
 exit_notify kernel/exit.c:777 [inline]
 do_exit+0x1674/0x22c0 kernel/exit.c:988
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1119
 get_signal+0x1284/0x1330 kernel/signal.c:3037
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x840 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8c/0x4d0 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:238 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x33e/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe9972fd68e
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7fe9972fd664.
RSP: 002b:00007fe99556cec8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: 0000000000000004 RBX: 00007fe99556d6c0 RCX: 00007fe9972fd68e
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 00007fe99556cf90 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007fe9973d2d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe9975b6128 R14: 00007fe9975b6090 R15: 00007fff44619818
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 10679:
 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:4569 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4898 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x33c/0x680 mm/slub.c:4917
 __d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1807
 d_alloc_parallel+0xe6/0x1610 fs/dcache.c:2671
 __lookup_slow+0x152/0x440 fs/namei.c:1900
 lookup_slow+0x53/0x70 fs/namei.c:1932
 walk_component fs/namei.c:2278 [inline]
 link_path_walk+0x1273/0x18d0 fs/namei.c:2649
 path_openat+0x2d5/0x38a0 fs/namei.c:4854
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4887
 do_sys_openat2+0x113/0x200 fs/open.c:1364
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1370 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1386 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1381 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1381
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 28:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 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:2689 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6250 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x187/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6377
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869 [inline]
 rcu_cpu_kthread+0x99e/0x1470 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2957
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x541/0xa50 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 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

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:3131 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3251
 __dentry_kill+0x4a9/0x690 fs/dcache.c:737
 shrink_kill+0xa9/0x2c0 fs/dcache.c:1195
 shrink_dentry_list+0x2e3/0x5e0 fs/dcache.c:1222
 shrink_dcache_tree+0xe9/0x5d0 fs/dcache.c:-1
 shrink_dcache_parent fs/dcache.c:1693 [inline]
 d_invalidate+0xde/0x210 fs/dcache.c:1775
 proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache+0x3d3/0x6c0 fs/proc/inode.c:142
 release_task+0x1207/0x16f0 kernel/exit.c:291
 wait_task_zombie kernel/exit.c:1281 [inline]
 wait_consider_task+0x1966/0x2e30 kernel/exit.c:1508
 do_wait_thread kernel/exit.c:1571 [inline]
 __do_wait+0x155/0x740 kernel/exit.c:1689
 do_wait+0x1e7/0x510 kernel/exit.c:1723
 kernel_wait4+0x232/0x2b0 kernel/exit.c:1882
 __do_sys_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1910 [inline]
 __se_sys_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1906 [inline]
 __x64_sys_wait4+0x166/0x240 kernel/exit.c:1906
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805fbfc528
 which belongs to the cache dentry of size 376
The buggy address is located 208 bytes inside of
 freed 376-byte region [ffff88805fbfc528, ffff88805fbfc6a0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88805fbfd658 pfn:0x5fbfc
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff88805fbfdef1
flags: 0x80000000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000240 ffff88801b6af3c0 ffffea0000f5c590 ffffea0000f5e090
raw: ffff88805fbfd658 0000000800120011 00000000f5000000 ffff88805fbfdef1
head: 0080000000000240 ffff88801b6af3c0 ffffea0000f5c590 ffffea0000f5e090
head: ffff88805fbfd658 0000000800120011 00000000f5000000 ffff88805fbfdef1
head: 0080000000000001 ffffffffffffff81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0xd20d0(__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4962, tgid 4962 (udevd), ts 114157364340, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1858
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1866 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x27c8/0x2840 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5226
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x33c/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7271
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x373/0x720 mm/slub.c:4651
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4749 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4883 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x433/0x680 mm/slub.c:4917
 __d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1807
 d_alloc+0x4b/0x190 fs/dcache.c:1886
 lookup_one_qstr_excl+0xd8/0x360 fs/namei.c:1801
 __start_dirop fs/namei.c:2916 [inline]
 start_dirop fs/namei.c:2938 [inline]
 filename_unlinkat+0x2c0/0x610 fs/namei.c:5549
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5603 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink+0x2e/0x140 fs/namei.c:5600
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805fbfc480: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc
 ffff88805fbfc500: fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88805fbfc580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                                ^
 ffff88805fbfc600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805fbfc680: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/17 06:28 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache
2026/02/16 05:44 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git for-next 18be4ca5cb4e 1e62d198 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache
2026/01/17 03:35 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git for-next 8f0b4cce4481 56f88057 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.