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KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/09 21:03
Subsystems: ext4
Labels: actionable prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+3fbf2337de43f5581aec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 39d, last: 6d18h
✨ AI Jobs (3)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
3d7b2494-e9b0-4d67-bc7a-3c0b99f28dcb assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ✅ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ✅ KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries (2) 2026/06/09 20:18 2026/06/09 20:18 2026/06/09 21:13 c36c07f6c1f2230a36374cbd22235f635e8f9284

			
		
b34af3c3-3b70-47da-85aa-55b6a5daf9f2 moderation Actionable: ✅ KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries (2) 2026/06/09 20:16 2026/06/09 20:16 2026/06/09 21:02 c36c07f6c1f2230a36374cbd22235f635e8f9284

			
		
662933c2-3c23-461a-9119-fd68fa47a7df assessment-security 💥 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries (2) 2026/06/04 00:00 2026/06/04 00:00 2026/06/04 00:00 62fe15281f5011cd203d8845b8767b10e7443aa5
failed to run ["git" "-c" "core.hooksPath=/dev/null" "fetch" "--force" "--tags" "f569e972c8e9057ee9c286220c83a480ebf30cc5" "6f3ed7fec72fc8979b2a8c7219c0a9fcfc8d07b5"]: exit status 128
error: insuffici...
truncated to first 200 bytes; open job for full error
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[syzbot] [ext4?] KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries (2) 0 (1) 2026/06/09 21:03
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries ext4 19 4 183d 274d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/10 00:23
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries 19 C error 15 150d 175d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/18 01:47

Sample crash report:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 r/w without journal. Quota mode: none.
loop0: detected capacity change from 2048 to 64
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_list_entries+0x302/0x3d0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:724
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880539bc014 by task syz.0.0/5329

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5329 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 ext4_xattr_list_entries+0x302/0x3d0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:724
 ext4_xattr_ibody_list fs/ext4/xattr.c:793 [inline]
 ext4_listxattr+0x229/0x680 fs/ext4/xattr.c:818
 vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:516 [inline]
 listxattr+0x19d/0x380 fs/xattr.c:941
 filename_listxattr fs/xattr.c:974 [inline]
 path_listxattrat+0x1a3/0x3f0 fs/xattr.c:1001
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2f07b9de59
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:00007f2f08a08fe8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000c2
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2f07e25fa0 RCX: 00007f2f07b9de59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00002000000000c0
RBP: 00007f2f07c33e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2f07e26038 R14: 00007f2f07e25fa0 R15: 00007ffe2f81fd08
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x539bc
flags: 0x4fff00000000000(node=1|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 04fff00000000000 ffffea00014e6f48 ffffea00014a6688 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner info is not present (never set?)

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880539bbf00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff8880539bbf80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff8880539bc000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                         ^
 ffff8880539bc080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff8880539bc100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/05 15:08 upstream 7404ce516372 fcece630 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2026/06/07 13:40 upstream 8e65320d91cd cc095639 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2026/06/02 20:37 upstream 6f3ed7fec72f 62fe1528 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.