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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/18 10:40
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+0aee5e8066eddbbe7397@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d18h, last: 4d18h
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[syzbot] [fs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache 0 (1) 2025/09/18 10:40
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache fs 2 1 1500d 1496d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/11/08 05:37

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache+0x6ae/0x6bc fs/proc/inode.c:114
Read of size 8 at addr ffffaf801b161418 by task sshd/3178

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3178 Comm: sshd Not tainted 6.17.0-rc1-syzkaller-g8f5ae30d69d7 #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8007949a>] dump_backtrace+0x2e/0x3c arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c:132
[<ffffffff8000329a>] show_stack+0x30/0x3c arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c:138
[<ffffffff80060b76>] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
[<ffffffff80060b76>] dump_stack_lvl+0x12e/0x1a6 lib/dump_stack.c:120
[<ffffffff8000ee40>] print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
[<ffffffff8000ee40>] print_report+0x28e/0x5a2 mm/kasan/report.c:482
[<ffffffff80b1ed32>] kasan_report+0xf0/0x214 mm/kasan/report.c:595
[<ffffffff80b20dca>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x12/0x1a mm/kasan/report_generic.c:381
[<ffffffff80e6eeda>] proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache+0x6ae/0x6bc fs/proc/inode.c:114
[<ffffffff80e83324>] proc_flush_pid+0x20/0x2a fs/proc/base.c:3483
[<ffffffff80159a0c>] release_task+0xcda/0x1cae kernel/exit.c:293
[<ffffffff8015c1a4>] wait_task_zombie kernel/exit.c:1264 [inline]
[<ffffffff8015c1a4>] wait_consider_task+0x17c4/0x3922 kernel/exit.c:1491
[<ffffffff80161c48>] do_wait_thread kernel/exit.c:1554 [inline]
[<ffffffff80161c48>] __do_wait+0x1b2/0x7ba kernel/exit.c:1672
[<ffffffff80162468>] do_wait+0x218/0x6ca kernel/exit.c:1706
[<ffffffff80163d84>] kernel_wait4+0x188/0x5a6 kernel/exit.c:1865
[<ffffffff801642f8>] __do_sys_wait4+0x156/0x162 kernel/exit.c:1893
[<ffffffff80164678>] __se_sys_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1889 [inline]
[<ffffffff80164678>] __riscv_sys_wait4+0x8a/0xd6 kernel/exit.c:1889
[<ffffffff8007715e>] syscall_handler+0x94/0x118 arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h:112
[<ffffffff863c3c76>] do_trap_ecall_u+0x396/0x530 arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c:343
[<ffffffff863ed596>] handle_exception+0x146/0x152 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S:197

Allocated by task 3178:
 stack_trace_save+0xa0/0xd2 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x6a mm/kasan/common.c:47
 kasan_save_track+0x16/0x28 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x30/0x3e mm/kasan/generic.c:562
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:330 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x7c/0x82 mm/kasan/common.c:356
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4180 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4229 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x104/0x3bc mm/slub.c:4236
 alloc_pid+0xd8/0x128a kernel/pid.c:183
 copy_process+0x426c/0x72da kernel/fork.c:2191
 kernel_clone+0x128/0xd9e kernel/fork.c:2605
 __do_sys_clone+0xfe/0x13e kernel/fork.c:2748
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2716 [inline]
 __riscv_sys_clone+0xa0/0x10e kernel/fork.c:2716
 syscall_handler+0x94/0x118 arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h:112
 do_trap_ecall_u+0x396/0x530 arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c:343
 handle_exception+0x146/0x152 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S:197

Freed by task 3192:
 stack_trace_save+0xa0/0xd2 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x6a mm/kasan/common.c:47
 kasan_save_track+0x16/0x28 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x5a mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:243 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x4a/0x62 mm/kasan/common.c:275
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2417 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4680 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x2b4/0x562 mm/slub.c:4782
 put_pid.part.0+0x104/0x144 kernel/pid.c:104
 put_pid+0x24/0x36 kernel/pid.c:98
 proc_free_inode+0x4a/0xbc fs/proc/inode.c:76
 i_callback+0x42/0x8e fs/inode.c:325
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]
 rcu_core+0xa24/0x1ef8 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2861
 rcu_core_si+0xc/0x14 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2878
 handle_softirqs+0x4b2/0x132e kernel/softirq.c:579
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:613 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:453 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x18c/0x550 kernel/softirq.c:680
 irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0xf8 kernel/softirq.c:696
 handle_riscv_irq+0x40/0x4c arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c:390
 call_on_irq_stack+0x32/0x40 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S:360

Last potentially related work creation:
 stack_trace_save+0xa0/0xd2 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x6a mm/kasan/common.c:47
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0x114/0x160 mm/kasan/generic.c:548
 __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x9e/0x9da kernel/rcu/tree.c:3123
 call_rcu+0xc/0x14 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3243
 free_pid+0x20a/0x2d0 kernel/pid.c:147
 free_pids+0x4c/0x8a kernel/pid.c:159
 release_task+0xcf0/0x1cae kernel/exit.c:296
 wait_task_zombie kernel/exit.c:1264 [inline]
 wait_consider_task+0x17c4/0x3922 kernel/exit.c:1491
 do_wait_thread kernel/exit.c:1554 [inline]
 __do_wait+0x1b2/0x7ba kernel/exit.c:1672
 do_wait+0x218/0x6ca kernel/exit.c:1706
 kernel_wait4+0x188/0x5a6 kernel/exit.c:1865
 __do_sys_wait4+0x156/0x162 kernel/exit.c:1893
 __se_sys_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1889 [inline]
 __riscv_sys_wait4+0x8a/0xd6 kernel/exit.c:1889
 syscall_handler+0x94/0x118 arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h:112
 do_trap_ecall_u+0x396/0x530 arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c:343
 handle_exception+0x146/0x152 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S:197

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffffaf801b161380
 which belongs to the cache pid of size 272
The buggy address is located 152 bytes inside of
 freed 272-byte region [ffffaf801b161380, ffffaf801b161490)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x9b160
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xffe000000000040(head|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0ffe000000000040 ffffaf8011a93780 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080150015 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0ffe000000000040 ffffaf8011a93780 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000080150015 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0ffe000000000001 ffff8d80006c5801 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 949, tgid 949 (kworker/u9:4), ts 62141947100, free_ts 0
 __set_page_owner+0x94/0x4a8 mm/page_owner.c:329
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xdc/0x1ba mm/page_alloc.c:1851
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x7fa/0x359a mm/page_alloc.c:3858
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x22e/0x2120 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x1fa/0x5bc mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x174/0x2f0 mm/mempolicy.c:2487
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2487 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2655 [inline]
 new_slab+0x27c/0x38c mm/slub.c:2709
 ___slab_alloc+0xb5a/0x1192 mm/slub.c:3891
 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x60/0xb0 mm/slub.c:3981
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4056 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4217 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0xd0/0x3bc mm/slub.c:4236
 alloc_pid+0xd8/0x128a kernel/pid.c:183
 copy_process+0x426c/0x72da kernel/fork.c:2191
 kernel_clone+0x128/0xd9e kernel/fork.c:2605
 user_mode_thread+0xd4/0x110 kernel/fork.c:2683
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work kernel/umh.c:171 [inline]
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0xd4/0x1ac kernel/umh.c:157
 process_one_work+0x96a/0x1f32 kernel/workqueue.c:3236
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffffaf801b161300: fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffffaf801b161380: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffffaf801b161400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffffaf801b161480: fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffffaf801b161500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/14 02:52 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git for-next 8f5ae30d69d7 e2beed91 .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.