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KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/07 12:57
Reported-by: syzbot+51d9b5fc591851f378d3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d14h, last: 7d14h
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-4.19 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block sysv 19 C error 4 1112d 1142d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/11/30 03:11
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block fs 19 C error done 1105 294d 1140d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/23 14:42
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block origin:upstream missing-backport 19 C inconclusive 107 3d13h 443d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/10/28 12:55
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block missing-backport origin:upstream 19 C 121 2d23h 451d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/10/20 05:31
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block 19 C 1 1049d 1134d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/12/08 01:50

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in sysv_new_block+0x735/0x8d0 fs/sysv/balloc.c:113
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88805d5e30c8 by task syz.3.21/5928

CPU: 1 PID: 5928 Comm: syz.3.21 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xac/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 sysv_new_block+0x735/0x8d0 fs/sysv/balloc.c:113
 alloc_branch fs/sysv/itree.c:134 [inline]
 get_block+0x285/0x1550 fs/sysv/itree.c:253
 __block_write_begin_int+0x566/0x1ad0 fs/buffer.c:2124
 __block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2173 [inline]
 block_write_begin+0x9a/0x1e0 fs/buffer.c:2234
 sysv_write_begin+0x35/0x70 fs/sysv/itree.c:488
 page_symlink+0x243/0x3c0 fs/namei.c:5238
 sysv_symlink+0xcc/0x160 fs/sysv/namei.c:86
 vfs_symlink+0x138/0x2b0 fs/namei.c:4481
 do_symlinkat+0x1b2/0x3f0 fs/namei.c:4507
 __do_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4528 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlink fs/namei.c:4526 [inline]
 __x64_sys_symlink+0x7e/0x90 fs/namei.c:4526
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fddcfd8f749
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:00007fddd0c13038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000058
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fddcffe6090 RCX: 00007fddcfd8f749
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000240 RDI: 0000200000000200
RBP: 00007fddcfe13f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fddcffe6128 R14: 00007fddcffe6090 R15: 00007ffc2e70ccf8
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00017578c0 refcount:2 mapcount:1 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x3ba pfn:0x5d5e3
memcg:ffff88807a7b8000
anon flags: 0xfff000000a0108(uptodate|active|mappedtodisk|swapbacked|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0x0()
raw: 00fff000000a0108 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff888025bab551
raw: 00000000000003ba 0000000000000000 0000000200000000 ffff88807a7b8000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x140cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP), pid 5931, tgid 5931 (syz-executor), ts 68130863488, free_ts 68037246778
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1cd/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1554
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
 __alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
 __folio_alloc+0x10/0x20 mm/page_alloc.c:4489
 vma_alloc_folio+0x47a/0x8f0 mm/mempolicy.c:2242
 wp_page_copy mm/memory.c:3094 [inline]
 do_wp_page+0x12bd/0x3630 mm/memory.c:3469
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5063 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5188 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x12d4/0x4920 mm/memory.c:5353
 do_user_addr_fault+0xad0/0x12e0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1324
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1465 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x67/0x110 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1521
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
 free_unref_page_list+0xbe/0x860 mm/page_alloc.c:2475
 release_pages+0x1fa0/0x2220 mm/swap.c:1022
 __folio_batch_release+0x71/0xe0 mm/swap.c:1042
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:83 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x5d0/0x1a40 mm/shmem.c:1026
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1135 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x273/0xa70 mm/shmem.c:1264
 evict+0x486/0x870 fs/inode.c:705
 __dentry_kill+0x431/0x650 fs/dcache.c:611
 dentry_kill+0xb8/0x290 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0xfe/0x1e0 fs/dcache.c:918
 __fput+0x5e5/0x970 fs/file_table.c:392
 task_work_run+0x1ce/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:239
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xf6/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805d5e2f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88805d5e3000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88805d5e3080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                                              ^
 ffff88805d5e3100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88805d5e3180: 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
2026/01/07 13:05 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block
2026/01/07 13:02 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block
2026/01/07 12:56 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_block
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.