KASAN: use-after-free Read in zswap_frontswap_load

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/04 03:17
Reported-by: syzbot+4c7fb0055a3f3b44f130@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 15d

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_long_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1183 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xd5/0x6c0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:860
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802bec8d00 by task syz.3.119/4696

CPU: 0 PID: 4696 Comm: syz.3.119 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x235/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
 atomic_long_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1183 [inline]
 __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0xd5/0x6c0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:860
 zswap_frontswap_load+0x88d/0xcb0 mm/zswap.c:1306
 __frontswap_load+0x25f/0x4e0 mm/frontswap.c:316
 frontswap_load include/linux/frontswap.h:98 [inline]
 swap_readpage+0xc8f/0xda0 mm/page_io.c:327
 swap_cluster_readahead+0x37d/0x7c0 mm/swap_state.c:649
 swapin_readahead+0xf1/0xab0 mm/swap_state.c:854
 do_swap_page+0x4d0/0x1fd0 mm/memory.c:3622
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4654 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:4785 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1bd9/0x4440 mm/memory.c:4883
 do_user_addr_fault+0x494/0xc90 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1355
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1443 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x60/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1496
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:606
RIP: 0033:0x7fa96e96e7bf
Code: 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 41 89 fb 44 8d 56 04 4c 8d 0d 52 08 3c 00 89 f0 4c 8d 05 49 e8 3b 00 89 c2 81 e2 ff 1f 00 00 <49> 8b 0c d1 48 39 f1 74 28 48 85 c9 74 29 45 38 1c 10 75 23 83 c0
RSP: 002b:00007fff2f2ecf68 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 00000000817f242a RBX: ffffffff817f242a RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000042a RSI: ffffffff817f242a RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00007fa96ed2d000 R09: 00007fa96ed2f000
R10: 00000000817f242e R11: 0000000000000005 R12: 00007fa96ed43038
R13: 0000000000000008 R14: ffffffff817f22e6 R15: 00007fa96f872720
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1:
 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+0xaf/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:625 [inline]
 zswap_dstmem_prepare+0xa7/0x200 mm/zswap.c:417
 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x423/0x7e0 kernel/cpu.c:191
 cpuhp_issue_call+0x3d3/0x760 kernel/cpu.c:-1
 __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked+0x410/0x7f0 kernel/cpu.c:2104
 __cpuhp_setup_state+0x3b/0x50 kernel/cpu.c:2133
 cpuhp_setup_state include/linux/cpuhotplug.h:282 [inline]
 init_zswap+0x68/0x2d0 mm/zswap.c:1449
 do_one_initcall+0x272/0x730 init/main.c:1315
 do_initcall_level+0x13d/0x1f0 init/main.c:1388
 do_initcalls+0x4b/0x90 init/main.c:1404
 kernel_init_freeable+0x3d5/0x560 init/main.c:1628
 kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1519
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Freed by task 4700:
 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+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 zswap_dstmem_dead+0x7e/0x200 mm/zswap.c:435
 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x423/0x7e0 kernel/cpu.c:191
 __cpuhp_invoke_callback_range kernel/cpu.c:677 [inline]
 cpuhp_invoke_callback_range kernel/cpu.c:701 [inline]
 cpuhp_down_callbacks kernel/cpu.c:1130 [inline]
 _cpu_down+0x455/0xbb0 kernel/cpu.c:1191
 cpu_down_maps_locked kernel/cpu.c:1217 [inline]
 cpu_down+0x4d/0x70 kernel/cpu.c:1225
 target_store+0x316/0x4a0 kernel/cpu.c:2349
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a8/0x500 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2173 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x748/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802bec8d00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
 192-byte region [ffff88802bec8d00, ffff88802bec8dc0)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0000afb200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2bec8
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ffff888016c41a00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 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 0x12cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 1, ts 22257110576, free_ts 22166040564
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 alloc_page_interleave+0x24/0x1e0 mm/mempolicy.c:2031
 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+0x807/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf9/0x290 mm/slub.c:3250
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 call_usermodehelper_setup+0x8a/0x260 kernel/umh.c:365
 call_modprobe kernel/kmod.c:93 [inline]
 __request_module+0x3ea/0x980 kernel/kmod.c:170
 crypto_larval_lookup crypto/api.c:230 [inline]
 crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0x96/0x6d0 crypto/api.c:277
 crypto_find_alg crypto/api.c:490 [inline]
 crypto_alloc_tfm_node+0x14e/0x360 crypto/api.c:527
 crypto_alloc_tfm crypto/internal.h:101 [inline]
 crypto_alloc_sync_skcipher+0x2f/0xc0 crypto/skcipher.c:768
 rxkad_init+0x1e/0xe0 net/rxrpc/rxkad.c:1362
 rxrpc_init_security+0x8c/0x180 net/rxrpc/security.c:31
 af_rxrpc_init+0x14f/0x370 net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c:982
 do_one_initcall+0x272/0x730 init/main.c:1315
 do_initcall_level+0x13d/0x1f0 init/main.c:1388
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
 __vunmap+0x8e0/0xa80 mm/vmalloc.c:2628
 free_work+0x56/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:95
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802bec8c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88802bec8c80: 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88802bec8d00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff88802bec8d80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802bec8e00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/04 03:16 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 9451e17e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in zswap_frontswap_load
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.