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KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/06/06 12:35
Reported-by: syzbot+1c60687a1f6580099289@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 270d, last: 13d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad origin:lts-only 19 C inconclusive 174 24m 324d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/13 18:37
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad gfs2 19 syz error error 10 41d 85d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/12/08 08:47

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x106/0x7d10 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4882
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888022b0cbb0 by task gfs2_quotad/25229

CPU: 1 PID: 25229 Comm: gfs2_quotad Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
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
 __lock_acquire+0x106/0x7d10 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4882
 lock_acquire+0x19e/0x400 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5623
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xb0/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 finish_wait+0xb5/0x1d0 kernel/sched/wait.c:407
 gfs2_quotad+0x710/0x890 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1605
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 25205:
 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+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 init_sbd fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:77 [inline]
 gfs2_fill_super+0x17d/0x1f00 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1151
 get_tree_bdev+0x3f1/0x610 fs/super.c:1325
 gfs2_get_tree+0x4d/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3034
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3377 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3585 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e3/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3562
 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 14308:
 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+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 generic_shutdown_super+0x130/0x300 fs/super.c:475
 kill_block_super+0x7c/0xe0 fs/super.c:1427
 deactivate_locked_super+0x93/0xf0 fs/super.c:335
 cleanup_mnt+0x42d/0x4e0 fs/namespace.c:1148
 task_work_run+0x125/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10f/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888022b0c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 2992 bytes inside of
 8192-byte region [ffff888022b0c000, ffff888022b0e000)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00008ac200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x22b08
head:ffffea00008ac200 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ffff888016c42280
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d28c0(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 23580, ts 1531051585648, free_ts 1530145115286
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1bbd/0x1ca0 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5487
 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+0x80a/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1fc/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:4963
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:356 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x22c/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:427
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1162 [inline]
 netlink_dump+0x19f/0xcf0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2243
 netlink_recvmsg+0x672/0xe20 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2001
 ____sys_recvmsg+0x2cd/0x5e0 net/socket.c:-1
 ___sys_recvmsg+0x21a/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2706
 do_recvmmsg+0x382/0x850 net/socket.c:2800
 __sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2881 [inline]
 __do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2902 [inline]
 __se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2895 [inline]
 __x64_sys_recvmmsg+0x1b4/0x250 net/socket.c:2895
 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_slab mm/slub.c:2020 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2026 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1a5/0x200 mm/slub.c:2512
 put_cpu_partial+0x12d/0x190 mm/slub.c:2592
 qlist_free_all+0x35/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x150/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:444
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x100/0x290 mm/slub.c:3238
 getname_flags+0xb5/0x500 fs/namei.c:138
 getname fs/namei.c:217 [inline]
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4404 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4402 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x38/0x50 fs/namei.c:4402
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888022b0ca80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888022b0cb00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888022b0cb80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                     ^
 ffff888022b0cc00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888022b0cc80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (14):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/18 19:24 linux-5.15.y e45d5d41c134 77d4d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2026/02/03 02:03 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 d78927dd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2026/02/01 16:33 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2026/01/20 23:52 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 06648d9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2026/01/06 20:08 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/12/08 22:16 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/12/06 10:40 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/11/11 13:26 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/11/06 06:34 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/11/05 18:56 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 a6c9c731 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/10/28 00:17 linux-5.15.y ac56c046adf4 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/06/06 12:35 linux-5.15.y 1c700860e8bc 9fa58bba .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/07/21 09:32 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 7117feec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_quotad
2025/12/15 02:22 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in gfs2_quotad
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.