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KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_try_to_merge_right

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/06/14 05:31
Reported-by: syzbot+3e5fae560f5aeebcd144@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 17d, last: 17d

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_ext_try_to_merge_right+0x424/0x840 fs/ext4/extents.c:1828
Read of size 718752 at addr ffff88804bda5484 by task syz.0.543/7065

CPU: 0 PID: 7065 Comm: syz.0.543 Not tainted 6.1.141-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x22e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:427
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:531
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x27b/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 memmove+0x25/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:54
 ext4_ext_try_to_merge_right+0x424/0x840 fs/ext4/extents.c:1828
 ext4_ext_try_to_merge+0x8e/0x620 fs/ext4/extents.c:1905
 ext4_ext_insert_extent+0x2181/0x4740 fs/ext4/extents.c:2174
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1598/0x66d0 fs/ext4/extents.c:4360
 ext4_map_blocks+0x9d1/0x1b60 fs/ext4/inode.c:679
 _ext4_get_block+0x1d7/0x4e0 fs/ext4/inode.c:822
 ext4_get_block_unwritten+0x2a/0x100 fs/ext4/inode.c:855
 __block_write_begin_int+0x54b/0x1a70 fs/buffer.c:1991
 __block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2041 [inline]
 block_page_mkwrite+0x2d8/0x5f0 fs/buffer.c:2510
 ext4_page_mkwrite+0x3b2/0x10c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6313
 do_page_mkwrite+0x16b/0x5c0 mm/memory.c:3011
 wp_page_shared+0x167/0x370 mm/memory.c:3360
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5049 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5173 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1ca6/0x3e70 mm/memory.c:5294
 do_user_addr_fault+0x51f/0xb10 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1340
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1431 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x60/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1487
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
RIP: 0010:copy_user_enhanced_fast_string+0xa/0x40 arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S:166
Code: ff c9 75 f2 89 d1 c1 e9 03 83 e2 07 f3 48 a5 89 d1 f3 a4 31 c0 0f 01 ca c3 8d 0c ca 89 ca eb 20 0f 01 cb 83 fa 40 72 38 89 d1 <f3> a4 31 c0 0f 01 ca c3 89 ca eb 0a 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003407a88 EFLAGS: 00050246
RAX: ffffffff8407c001 RBX: 0000000000000040 RCX: 0000000000000040
RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: ffffc90003407b20 RDI: 000020000004f000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffff52000680f6c
R10: fffff52000680f6c R11: 1ffff92000680f64 R12: 00007fffffffefc0
R13: 000000007ffe3a80 R14: 000020000004f000 R15: ffffc90003407b20
 copy_user_generic arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:37 [inline]
 raw_copy_to_user arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:58 [inline]
 _copy_to_user+0xea/0x130 lib/usercopy.c:41
 copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:169 [inline]
 rng_dev_read+0x3c5/0x710 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c:267
 do_loop_readv_writev fs/read_write.c:-1 [inline]
 do_iter_read+0x49f/0xb10 fs/read_write.c:798
 vfs_readv fs/read_write.c:916 [inline]
 do_preadv+0x1f6/0x330 fs/read_write.c:1008
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f1694d8e929
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:00007f1695b67038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000127
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1694fb5fa0 RCX: 00007f1694d8e929
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000200000000240 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f1694e10b39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f1694fb5fa0 R15: 00007ffffaa67a88
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00012f6940 refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888148d3c9f8 index:0x64 pfn:0x4bda5
memcg:ffff8880794b6000
aops:def_blk_aops ino:700000
flags: 0xfff9800000205a(referenced|dirty|lru|workingset|private|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff9800000205a ffffea0001326488 ffffea0001c770c8 ffff888148d3c9f8
raw: 0000000000000064 ffff88807ada3910 00000002ffffffff ffff8880794b6000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x148c48(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_MOVABLE), pid 7065, tgid 7064 (syz.0.543), ts 452317982754, free_ts 452304341424
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2532
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2539 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a26/0x1ac0 mm/page_alloc.c:4328
 __alloc_pages+0x1df/0x4e0 mm/page_alloc.c:5614
 folio_alloc+0x1c/0x60 mm/mempolicy.c:2292
 filemap_alloc_folio+0xdb/0x460 mm/filemap.c:999
 __filemap_get_folio+0x697/0xdd0 mm/filemap.c:1993
 pagecache_get_page+0x26/0x250 mm/folio-compat.c:110
 find_or_create_page include/linux/pagemap.h:646 [inline]
 grow_dev_page fs/buffer.c:946 [inline]
 grow_buffers fs/buffer.c:1011 [inline]
 __getblk_slow fs/buffer.c:1038 [inline]
 __getblk_gfp+0x2d8/0xb20 fs/buffer.c:1333
 sb_getblk_gfp include/linux/buffer_head.h:363 [inline]
 ext4_ext_grow_indepth fs/ext4/extents.c:1336 [inline]
 ext4_ext_create_new_leaf fs/ext4/extents.c:1437 [inline]
 ext4_ext_insert_extent+0x10e2/0x4740 fs/ext4/extents.c:2105
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1598/0x66d0 fs/ext4/extents.c:4360
 ext4_map_blocks+0x9d1/0x1b60 fs/ext4/inode.c:679
 _ext4_get_block+0x1d7/0x4e0 fs/ext4/inode.c:822
 ext4_get_block_unwritten+0x2a/0x100 fs/ext4/inode.c:855
 __block_write_begin_int+0x54b/0x1a70 fs/buffer.c:1991
 __block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2041 [inline]
 block_page_mkwrite+0x2d8/0x5f0 fs/buffer.c:2510
 ext4_page_mkwrite+0x3b2/0x10c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6313
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1459 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1509 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3384
 free_unref_page_list+0xbb/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3525
 release_pages+0x1f92/0x2200 mm/swap.c:1035
 __pagevec_release+0x6d/0xe0 mm/swap.c:1055
 pagevec_release include/linux/pagevec.h:71 [inline]
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:135 [inline]
 truncate_inode_pages_range+0x2f6/0xff0 mm/truncate.c:372
 truncate_inode_pages mm/truncate.c:451 [inline]
 truncate_pagecache+0x68/0x80 mm/truncate.c:751
 ext4_collapse_range fs/ext4/extents.c:5407 [inline]
 ext4_fallocate+0xf2b/0x1ff0 fs/ext4/extents.c:4765
 vfs_fallocate+0x584/0x6f0 fs/open.c:323
 ksys_fallocate fs/open.c:346 [inline]
 __do_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:354 [inline]
 __se_sys_fallocate fs/open.c:352 [inline]
 __x64_sys_fallocate+0xbd/0x100 fs/open.c:352
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88804bdaff00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88804bdaff80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88804bdb0000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                   ^
 ffff88804bdb0080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88804bdb0100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	ff c9                	dec    %ecx
   2:	75 f2                	jne    0xfffffff6
   4:	89 d1                	mov    %edx,%ecx
   6:	c1 e9 03             	shr    $0x3,%ecx
   9:	83 e2 07             	and    $0x7,%edx
   c:	f3 48 a5             	rep movsq %ds:(%rsi),%es:(%rdi)
   f:	89 d1                	mov    %edx,%ecx
  11:	f3 a4                	rep movsb %ds:(%rsi),%es:(%rdi)
  13:	31 c0                	xor    %eax,%eax
  15:	0f 01 ca             	clac
  18:	c3                   	ret
  19:	8d 0c ca             	lea    (%rdx,%rcx,8),%ecx
  1c:	89 ca                	mov    %ecx,%edx
  1e:	eb 20                	jmp    0x40
  20:	0f 01 cb             	stac
  23:	83 fa 40             	cmp    $0x40,%edx
  26:	72 38                	jb     0x60
  28:	89 d1                	mov    %edx,%ecx
* 2a:	f3 a4                	rep movsb %ds:(%rsi),%es:(%rdi) <-- trapping instruction
  2c:	31 c0                	xor    %eax,%eax
  2e:	0f 01 ca             	clac
  31:	c3                   	ret
  32:	89 ca                	mov    %ecx,%edx
  34:	eb 0a                	jmp    0x40
  36:	90                   	nop
  37:	90                   	nop
  38:	90                   	nop
  39:	90                   	nop
  3a:	90                   	nop
  3b:	90                   	nop
  3c:	90                   	nop
  3d:	90                   	nop
  3e:	90                   	nop
  3f:	90                   	nop

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/06/14 05:31 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f 0e8da31f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_ext_try_to_merge_right
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.