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KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_insert_extent

Status: premoderation: reported syz repro on 2025/06/20 07:17
Bug presence: origin:lts
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Reported-by: syzbot+0e29293a1af2ec0f0fcd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d15h, last: 2d15h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/06/20 lts (merge base) 1c700860e8bc C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_remove_space
2025/06/20 upstream (ToT) 75f5f23f8787 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_insert_extent 1 413d 413d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/13 04:16
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_insert_extent ext4 C done 5 11d 28d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/05/25 18:12
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_insert_extent syz 2 15d 100d 0/2 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2025/03/14 06:10
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_insert_extent ext4 1 589d 585d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/09 07:34

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_ext_insert_extent+0x204c/0x47a0 fs/ext4/extents.c:2157
Read of size 521328 at addr ffff8881333e1c3c by task syz.7.34/461

CPU: 0 PID: 461 Comm: syz.7.34 Not tainted 5.15.185-syzkaller-00339-ge678c93d43cc #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xee/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:427 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xf1/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:444
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x280/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 memmove+0x2d/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:54
 ext4_ext_insert_extent+0x204c/0x47a0 fs/ext4/extents.c:2157
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1574/0x6270 fs/ext4/extents.c:4360
 ext4_map_blocks+0x97b/0x1b20 fs/ext4/inode.c:674
 _ext4_get_block+0x1da/0x4e0 fs/ext4/inode.c:817
 ext4_get_block+0x39/0x50 fs/ext4/inode.c:834
 ext4_block_write_begin+0x556/0x1150 fs/ext4/inode.c:1102
 ext4_write_begin+0x638/0x1220 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h:-1
 ext4_da_write_begin+0x2fa/0xb60 fs/ext4/inode.c:2988
 generic_perform_write+0x2ad/0x670 mm/filemap.c:3857
 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x4ed/0x670 fs/ext4/file.c:270
 ext4_file_write_iter+0x18c/0x14c0 fs/ext4/file.c:664
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2204 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x802/0xf70 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x140/0x240 fs/read_write.c:647
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:659 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:656 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:656
 x64_sys_call+0x8ef/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 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: 0033:0x7fc689759929
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:00007fc6891a9038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fc689981080 RCX: 00007fc689759929
RDX: 00000000002a979d RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fc6897dbb39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007fc689981080 R15: 00007fff144f7d88
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004ccf840 refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8881093843d8 index:0x3f pfn:0x1333e1
memcg:ffff88811a340000
aops:def_blk_aops ino:700007
flags: 0x4000000000002014(uptodate|lru|private|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000002014 ffffea0004c70d88 ffffea0004c70dc8 ffff8881093843d8
raw: 000000000000003f ffff888120413a80 00000002ffffffff ffff88811a340000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x108c48(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_MOVABLE), pid 461, ts 30352666406, free_ts 29959986356
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x192/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2605
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2611
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2cc5/0x2d50 mm/page_alloc.c:4485
 __alloc_pages+0x18f/0x440 mm/page_alloc.c:5789
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:591 [inline]
 alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:605 [inline]
 alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:618 [inline]
 __page_cache_alloc include/linux/pagemap.h:305 [inline]
 pagecache_get_page+0x8c7/0xc20 mm/filemap.c:1946
 find_or_create_page include/linux/pagemap.h:418 [inline]
 grow_dev_page fs/buffer.c:949 [inline]
 grow_buffers fs/buffer.c:1014 [inline]
 __getblk_slow fs/buffer.c:1041 [inline]
 __getblk_gfp+0x238/0x7d0 fs/buffer.c:1336
 sb_getblk_gfp include/linux/buffer_head.h:368 [inline]
 ext4_ext_grow_indepth fs/ext4/extents.c:1330 [inline]
 ext4_ext_create_new_leaf fs/ext4/extents.c:1431 [inline]
 ext4_ext_insert_extent+0x110f/0x47a0 fs/ext4/extents.c:2102
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1574/0x6270 fs/ext4/extents.c:4360
 ext4_map_blocks+0x97b/0x1b20 fs/ext4/inode.c:674
 _ext4_get_block+0x1da/0x4e0 fs/ext4/inode.c:817
 ext4_get_block+0x39/0x50 fs/ext4/inode.c:834
 ext4_block_write_begin+0x556/0x1150 fs/ext4/inode.c:1102
 ext4_write_begin+0x638/0x1220 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h:-1
 ext4_da_write_begin+0x2fa/0xb60 fs/ext4/inode.c:2988
 generic_perform_write+0x2ad/0x670 mm/filemap.c:3857
 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x4ed/0x670 fs/ext4/file.c:270
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1472 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1544 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x542/0x550 mm/page_alloc.c:3534
 free_unref_page_list+0x134/0x9d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3671
 release_pages+0x1076/0x10d0 mm/swap.c:1009
 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x86/0xa0 mm/swap_state.c:320
 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+0x175/0x300 mm/mmu_gather.c:338
 exit_mmap+0x40f/0x860 mm/mmap.c:3236
 __mmput+0x93/0x320 kernel/fork.c:1180
 mmput+0x50/0x150 kernel/fork.c:1203
 exit_mm kernel/exit.c:554 [inline]
 do_exit+0x9ca/0x27a0 kernel/exit.c:867
 do_group_exit+0x141/0x310 kernel/exit.c:1002
 get_signal+0x66a/0x1480 kernel/signal.c:2907
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc1/0x10f0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:867
 handle_signal_work kernel/entry/common.c:154 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xa7/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:178
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x5a/0xa0 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888133405f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888133405f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff888133406000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                   ^
 ffff888133406080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888133406100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/06/20 07:17 android13-5.15-lts e678c93d43cc ed3e87f7 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_insert_extent
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.