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

Status: fixed on 2026/05/22 04:12
Subsystems: cgroups
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Reported-by: syzbot+33e571025d88efd1312c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: a5b98009f16d sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write
First crash: 110d, last: 109d
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
▶ ▼ Discussions (5)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write 1 (1) 2026/07/15 08:42
[PATCH 6.1.y 2/2] sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write 1 (1) 2026/07/15 08:42
[PATCH 6.12.y 2/2] sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write 1 (1) 2026/07/15 08:32
[PATCH] sched/psi: fix race between file release and pressure write 19 (19) 2026/04/17 17:37
[syzbot] [cgroups?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in pressure_write 12 (25) 2026/04/13 02:44
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in pressure_write 19 1 415d 415d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/12 19:33
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (12)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/13 02:20 22m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream OK log
2026/04/12 06:50 23m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream OK log
2026/04/11 03:11 14m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/10 12:13 25m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream OK log
2026/04/10 12:02 23m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/10 10:48 21m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream OK log
2026/04/10 10:01 23m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/10 04:00 16m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/10 00:56 21m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream OK log
2026/04/09 14:02 24m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/09 13:35 14m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/09 13:06 16m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream report log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pressure_write+0xa4/0x210 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4011
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88803160f208 by task syz.3.1283/9352

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9352 Comm: syz.3.1283 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 pressure_write+0xa4/0x210 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4011
 cgroup_file_write+0x36f/0x790 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4311
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3b0/0x540 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x629/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f73f541c819
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:00007f73f4a76028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f73f5695fa0 RCX: 00007f73f541c819
RDX: 000000000000002f RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f73f54b2c91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f73f5696038 R14: 00007f73f5695fa0 R15: 00007ffe5707b838
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 9352:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3a6/0x690 mm/slub.c:5380
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 cgroup_file_open+0x90/0x3a0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4256
 kernfs_fop_open+0x9eb/0xcb0 fs/kernfs/file.c:724
 do_dentry_open+0x83d/0x13e0 fs/open.c:949
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1081
 do_open fs/namei.c:4677 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2e43/0x38a0 fs/namei.c:4836
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4865
 do_sys_openat2+0x113/0x200 fs/open.c:1366
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1388 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1383 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1383
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 9353:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2685 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c1/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6483
 cgroup_file_release+0xd6/0x100 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4283
 kernfs_release_file fs/kernfs/file.c:764 [inline]
 kernfs_drain_open_files+0x392/0x720 fs/kernfs/file.c:834
 kernfs_drain+0x470/0x600 fs/kernfs/dir.c:525
 __kernfs_remove+0x3cf/0x660 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1513
 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xaf/0x130 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1722
 kernfs_remove_by_name include/linux/kernfs.h:633 [inline]
 cgroup_rm_file kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:1758 [inline]
 cgroup_addrm_files+0x684/0xc30 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:4483
 cgroup_destroy_locked+0x321/0x630 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:6197
 cgroup_rmdir+0x3e8/0x710 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:6311
 kernfs_iop_rmdir+0x203/0x350 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1291
 vfs_rmdir+0x400/0x6f0 fs/namei.c:5344
 filename_rmdir+0x292/0x520 fs/namei.c:5399
 __do_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:5422 [inline]
 __se_sys_rmdir+0x2e/0x140 fs/namei.c:5419
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88803160f200
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 freed 192-byte region [ffff88803160f200, ffff88803160f2c0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x3160f
flags: 0x80000000000000(node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000000 ffff88813fe1a3c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 17504889254, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x28bb/0x2950 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3292 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3481
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x334/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35c/0x710 mm/slub.c:4615
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4717 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4851 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x44e/0x690 mm/slub.c:5375
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 call_usermodehelper_setup+0x8e/0x270 kernel/umh.c:362
 kobject_uevent_env+0x65b/0x9e0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:628
 device_add+0x557/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3672
 netdev_register_kobject+0x178/0x310 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2358
 register_netdevice+0x12d7/0x1d10 net/core/dev.c:11441
 register_netdev+0x40/0x60 net/core/dev.c:11557
 nr_proto_init+0x14a/0x720 net/netrom/af_netrom.c:1424
 do_one_initcall+0x250/0x8d0 init/main.c:1382
 do_initcall_level+0x104/0x190 init/main.c:1444
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88803160f100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88803160f180: 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88803160f200: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88803160f280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88803160f300: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/06 16:26 upstream 591cd656a1bf 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in pressure_write
2026/04/06 12:59 upstream 591cd656a1bf 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in pressure_write
2026/04/05 09:58 upstream 3aae9383f42f 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in pressure_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.