KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in get_empty_nodes

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/17 22:46
Reported-by: syzbot+13bc02acf427225c620c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 292d, last: 292d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in get_empty_nodes (2) 8 syz, C error 3 118d 118d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/03 07:32
linux-6.1 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in get_empty_nodes 8 3 231d 237d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/19 21:33

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in set_buffer_journal_new fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.h:2833 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in get_empty_nodes+0x525/0x8c0 fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c:901
Read of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task syz.0.201/6871

CPU: 1 PID: 6871 Comm: syz.0.201 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x288/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:187
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline]
 _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
 set_buffer_journal_new fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.h:2833 [inline]
 get_empty_nodes+0x525/0x8c0 fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c:901
 fix_nodes+0x1e52/0x82e0 fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c:2663
 reiserfs_insert_item+0x9a1/0xbe0 fs/reiserfs/stree.c:2238
 indirect2direct+0x596/0x9c0 fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c:283
 maybe_indirect_to_direct fs/reiserfs/stree.c:1585 [inline]
 reiserfs_cut_from_item+0x78b/0x1f10 fs/reiserfs/stree.c:1692
 reiserfs_do_truncate+0xa3d/0x1340 fs/reiserfs/stree.c:1971
 reiserfs_truncate_file+0x37a/0x7c0 fs/reiserfs/inode.c:2306
 reiserfs_setattr+0xc0c/0x11a0 fs/reiserfs/inode.c:3392
 notify_change+0xb0d/0xe10 fs/attr.c:499
 do_truncate+0x19b/0x220 fs/open.c:66
 do_sys_ftruncate+0x325/0x3d0 fs/open.c:194
 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: 0033:0x7fb28638f6c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fb287170038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004d
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb2865e6180 RCX: 00007fb28638f6c9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000f88 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fb286411f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb2865e6218 R14: 00007fb2865e6180 R15: 00007ffcecc90f98
 </TASK>
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/09 22:45 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: null-ptr-deref Read in get_empty_nodes
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.