KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/27 21:42
Reported-by: syzbot+087fc6d8c1e2f78f5966@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 22d, last: 14d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv 22 8 7d00h 22d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/28 00:19
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv 22 6 14d 22d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/27 23:02

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:111 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:193 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in svc_get include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:108 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nfsd_create_serv+0x11b/0x700 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:662
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88805f208850 by task syz.1.393/5520

CPU: 0 PID: 5520 Comm: syz.1.393 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 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
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x235/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:111 [inline]
 __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:193 [inline]
 __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
 refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
 kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
 svc_get include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:108 [inline]
 nfsd_create_serv+0x11b/0x700 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:662
 nfsd_svc+0x132/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:798
 write_threads+0x2ea/0x350 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:426
 nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
 vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 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: 0033:0x7f6b51c67019
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:00007f6b4febf028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6b51eeefa0 RCX: 00007f6b51c67019
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f6b51cfe00c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6b51eef038 R14: 00007f6b51eeefa0 R15: 00007ffcaffceb78
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5520:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaf/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 __svc_create+0x60/0x9d0 net/sunrpc/svc.c:458
 svc_create_pooled+0x62f/0x810 net/sunrpc/svc.c:546
 nfsd_create_serv+0x2f9/0x700 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:668
 __write_ports_addfd fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:718 [inline]
 __write_ports fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:793 [inline]
 write_ports+0x526/0xb80 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:849
 nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
 vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 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

Freed by task 5520:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 svc_put include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:123 [inline]
 __write_ports_addfd fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:730 [inline]
 __write_ports fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:793 [inline]
 write_ports+0x9ac/0xb80 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:849
 nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
 vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805f208800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff88805f208800, ffff88805f208a00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00017c8200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5f208
head:ffffea00017c8200 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888016c41c80
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4178, ts 75383890513, free_ts 25117545146
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
 ___slab_alloc+0x807/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf9/0x290 mm/slub.c:3250
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 kernfs_fop_open+0x3c9/0xba0 fs/kernfs/file.c:628
 do_dentry_open+0x7f7/0xf90 fs/open.c:826
 do_open fs/namei.c:3616 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2718/0x2fb0 fs/namei.c:3750
 do_filp_open+0x1df/0x400 fs/namei.c:3777
 do_sys_openat2+0x14b/0x500 fs/open.c:1255
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1271 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1287 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1282 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1282
 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
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+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_contig_range+0x96/0xf0 mm/page_alloc.c:9428
 destroy_args+0xef/0xa00 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1018
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x321/0x380 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1336
 do_one_initcall+0x272/0x730 init/main.c:1315
 do_initcall_level+0x13d/0x1f0 init/main.c:1388
 do_initcalls+0x4b/0x90 init/main.c:1404
 kernel_init_freeable+0x3d5/0x560 init/main.c:1628
 kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1519
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805f208700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805f208780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88805f208800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff88805f208880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805f208900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (12):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/04 19:31 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/08/03 20:38 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 6b7c9f71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/08/03 20:38 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 6b7c9f71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/08/03 19:22 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 6b7c9f71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/08/03 19:21 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 6b7c9f71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/07/28 00:00 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/07/28 00:00 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/07/27 23:09 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/07/27 22:37 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/07/27 21:46 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/07/27 21:42 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
2026/07/27 21:42 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_create_serv
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.