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

Status: premoderation: reported on 2025/10/03 02:03
Reported-by: syzbot+46fffa8f1b823a3c8490@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 9d10h, last: 9d10h
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in kernfs_get 24 syz error 8 158d 326d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/05 11:00
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in kernfs_get kernfs 19 8 1186d 1307d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/11/11 09:18
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in kernfs_get (2) origin:lts 24 syz 23 29d 454d 0/2 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2024/07/15 05:15
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in kernfs_get (2) kernfs 19 2 968d 1054d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/16 19:32
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in kernfs_get 19 3 965d 1089d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/20 22:47
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in kernfs_get 19 2 425d 470d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/11 11:50
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in kernfs_get 19 1 423d 423d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/23 10:42
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kernfs_get kernfs 19 1 604d 604d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/26 00:41
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in kernfs_get 24 3 719d 807d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/21 14:31
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kernfs_get (2) kernfs 19 2 321d 318d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/04 15:25

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in arch_atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:29 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:28 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kernfs_get+0x8a/0x90 fs/kernfs/dir.c:525
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888121e04708 by task kworker/1:6/388

CPU: 1 PID: 388 Comm: kworker/1:6 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Workqueue: events flush_stashed_error_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xee/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x71/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:316
 print_report+0x4a/0x60 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x122/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:350
 arch_atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:29 [inline]
 atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:28 [inline]
 kernfs_get+0x8a/0x90 fs/kernfs/dir.c:525
 sysfs_notify+0x5a/0xd0 fs/sysfs/file.c:187
 ext4_notify_error_sysfs+0x25/0x30 fs/ext4/sysfs.c:518
 flush_stashed_error_work+0x2cb/0x2f0 fs/ext4/super.c:-1
 process_one_work+0x71f/0xc40 kernel/workqueue.c:2302
 worker_thread+0xa29/0x11f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2449
 kthread+0x281/0x320 kernel/kthread.c:386
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 3978:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:505
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x72/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:333
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:202 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4f/0x2d0 mm/slab.h:768
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3382 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3399 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x16e/0x330 mm/slub.c:3408
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:689 [inline]
 __kernfs_new_node+0xdb/0x680 fs/kernfs/dir.c:614
 kernfs_new_node+0x150/0x260 fs/kernfs/dir.c:690
 kernfs_create_dir_ns+0x47/0x130 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1046
 sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x11c/0x280 fs/sysfs/dir.c:59
 create_dir lib/kobject.c:63 [inline]
 kobject_add_internal+0x6fc/0xc20 lib/kobject.c:231
 kobject_add_varg lib/kobject.c:366 [inline]
 kobject_init_and_add+0x122/0x190 lib/kobject.c:449
 ext4_register_sysfs+0xbb/0x2c0 fs/ext4/sysfs.c:531
 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5500 [inline]
 ext4_fill_super+0x6e14/0x7970 fs/ext4/super.c:5655
 get_tree_bdev+0x444/0x680 fs/super.c:1368
 ext4_get_tree+0x1c/0x20 fs/ext4/super.c:5685
 vfs_get_tree+0x9a/0x270 fs/super.c:1575
 do_new_mount+0x25a/0xa20 fs/namespace.c:3069
 path_mount+0x675/0x1010 fs/namespace.c:3399
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3412 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3620 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x318/0x380 fs/namespace.c:3597
 __x64_sys_mount+0xbf/0xd0 fs/namespace.c:3597
 x64_sys_call+0x65d/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:166
 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

Freed by task 282:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_free_info+0x31/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x132/0x180 mm/kasan/common.c:241
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:249
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:178 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1750 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc2/0x190 mm/slub.c:1776
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3712 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x12d/0x300 mm/slub.c:3737
 kernfs_put+0x310/0x480 fs/kernfs/dir.c:568
 sysfs_put include/linux/sysfs.h:657 [inline]
 __kobject_del+0xf8/0x2f0 lib/kobject.c:597
 kobject_del+0x45/0x60 lib/kobject.c:619
 ext4_unregister_sysfs+0x91/0xa0 fs/ext4/sysfs.c:565
 ext4_put_super+0x73/0xac0 fs/ext4/super.c:1216
 generic_shutdown_super+0x15f/0x370 fs/super.c:503
 kill_block_super+0x7f/0xf0 fs/super.c:1472
 deactivate_locked_super+0xb5/0x120 fs/super.c:334
 deactivate_super+0xaf/0xe0 fs/super.c:365
 cleanup_mnt+0x45f/0x4e0 fs/namespace.c:1182
 __cleanup_mnt+0x19/0x20 fs/namespace.c:1189
 task_work_run+0x1db/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:203
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x9b/0xb0 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x5a/0xa0 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:292 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:303
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888121e04708
 which belongs to the cache kernfs_node_cache of size 136
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
 136-byte region [ffff888121e04708, ffff888121e04790)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0004878100 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x121e04
flags: 0x4000000000000200(slab|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000000200 ffffea000458b180 dead000000000005 ffff8881002acd80
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000140014 00000001ffffffff 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 0x112cc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 2970, tgid 2969 (syz.4.609), ts 566483709690, free_ts 566478716268
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f5/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:2643
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2650
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2c7b/0x2cf0 mm/page_alloc.c:4554
 __alloc_pages+0x1c3/0x450 mm/page_alloc.c:5868
 alloc_slab_page+0x6e/0xf0 include/linux/gfp.h:-1
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1967 [inline]
 new_slab+0x98/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:2020
 ___slab_alloc+0x6bd/0xb20 mm/slub.c:3177
 __slab_alloc+0x5e/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3263
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3348 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3399 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1b0/0x330 mm/slub.c:3408
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:689 [inline]
 __kernfs_new_node+0xdb/0x680 fs/kernfs/dir.c:614
 kernfs_new_node+0x150/0x260 fs/kernfs/dir.c:690
 __kernfs_create_file+0x4e/0x270 fs/kernfs/file.c:1050
 sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0x1ce/0x270 fs/sysfs/file.c:294
 create_files fs/sysfs/group.c:64 [inline]
 internal_create_group+0x495/0xd00 fs/sysfs/group.c:148
 internal_create_groups fs/sysfs/group.c:188 [inline]
 sysfs_create_groups+0x58/0x120 fs/sysfs/group.c:214
 create_dir lib/kobject.c:68 [inline]
 kobject_add_internal+0x745/0xc20 lib/kobject.c:231
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1551 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1625 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x742/0x750 mm/page_alloc.c:3589
 free_unref_page_list+0x112/0x8b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3740
 release_pages+0xad1/0xb20 mm/swap.c:1043
 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x86/0xa0 mm/swap_state.c:315
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:59 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:254 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:261 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x1aa/0x370 mm/mmu_gather.c:361
 unmap_region+0x28d/0x2e0 mm/mmap.c:2418
 do_mas_align_munmap+0xb9b/0x1230 mm/mmap.c:2691
 do_mas_munmap+0x241/0x2b0 mm/mmap.c:2749
 __vm_munmap+0x19f/0x2f0 mm/mmap.c:3048
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:3074 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:3070 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x6b/0x80 mm/mmap.c:3070
 x64_sys_call+0x8a/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:12
 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:
 ffff888121e04600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888121e04680: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888121e04700: fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff888121e04780: fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888121e04800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xe0bc1c2ba000002d: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0x05e1015d00000168-0x05e1015d0000016f]
CPU: 1 PID: 388 Comm: kworker/1:6 Tainted: G    B              syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Workqueue: events flush_stashed_error_work

RIP: 0010:kernfs_root fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h:68 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x54/0x110 fs/kernfs/dir.c:903
Code: 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 05 e8 03 64 d6 ff 49 8b 5c 24 08 48 85 db 49 0f 44 dc 48 83 c3 50 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 dd 63 d6 ff 48 8b 1b 48 83 c3 60
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e90fc60 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 00bc202ba000002d RBX: 05e1015d0000016a RCX: ffffffff81de28cd
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff888121e04710
RBP: ffffc9000e90fc88 R08: fffffffffffffffa R09: 0000000000000003
R10: ffffed10243c08e1 R11: 1ffff110243c08e1 R12: ffff888121e04708
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8594cc20
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c29af2d CR3: 0000000006e0f000 CR4: 00000000003526a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 kernfs_find_and_get include/linux/kernfs.h:614 [inline]
 sysfs_notify+0x71/0xd0 fs/sysfs/file.c:190
 ext4_notify_error_sysfs+0x25/0x30 fs/ext4/sysfs.c:518
 flush_stashed_error_work+0x2cb/0x2f0 fs/ext4/super.c:-1
 process_one_work+0x71f/0xc40 kernel/workqueue.c:2302
 worker_thread+0xa29/0x11f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2449
 kthread+0x281/0x320 kernel/kthread.c:386
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:kernfs_root fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h:68 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x54/0x110 fs/kernfs/dir.c:903
Code: 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 05 e8 03 64 d6 ff 49 8b 5c 24 08 48 85 db 49 0f 44 dc 48 83 c3 50 48 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 dd 63 d6 ff 48 8b 1b 48 83 c3 60
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e90fc60 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 00bc202ba000002d RBX: 05e1015d0000016a RCX: ffffffff81de28cd
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff888121e04710
RBP: ffffc9000e90fc88 R08: fffffffffffffffa R09: 0000000000000003
R10: ffffed10243c08e1 R11: 1ffff110243c08e1 R12: ffff888121e04708
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8594cc20
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f498822be9c CR3: 0000000107136000 CR4: 00000000003526a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	48 89 f8             	mov    %rdi,%rax
   3:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
   7:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1)
   c:	74 05                	je     0x13
   e:	e8 03 64 d6 ff       	call   0xffd66416
  13:	49 8b 5c 24 08       	mov    0x8(%r12),%rbx
  18:	48 85 db             	test   %rbx,%rbx
  1b:	49 0f 44 dc          	cmove  %r12,%rbx
  1f:	48 83 c3 50          	add    $0x50,%rbx
  23:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  34:	e8 dd 63 d6 ff       	call   0xffd66416
  39:	48 8b 1b             	mov    (%rbx),%rbx
  3c:	48 83 c3 60          	add    $0x60,%rbx

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/03 02:02 android14-6.1 f6787ec80e17 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in kernfs_get
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.