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KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/15 18:41
Reported-by: syzbot+5a4cb69d50e0f4dc32e9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d16h, last: 2d02h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-15 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_get_inode_usage origin:upstream 19 C 3 3d10h 3d10h 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/16 23:51
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage 19 C 2 3d03h 3d08h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/17 01:53

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_get_inode_usage+0x3a1/0x520 fs/ext4/xattr.c:817
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888113e90070 by task syz.2.23/402

CPU: 1 PID: 402 Comm: syz.2.23 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x1a7/0x208 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:435 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xe2/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:308
 ext4_get_inode_usage+0x3a1/0x520 fs/ext4/xattr.c:817
 __dquot_transfer+0x192/0x20d0 fs/quota/dquot.c:2017
 dquot_transfer+0x2f1/0x460 fs/quota/dquot.c:2169
 ext4_setattr+0x715/0x1950 fs/ext4/inode.c:5577
 notify_change+0xab3/0xe40 fs/attr.c:410
 chown_common+0x335/0x500 fs/open.c:675
 vfs_fchown fs/open.c:742 [inline]
 ksys_fchown+0xef/0x160 fs/open.c:753
 __do_sys_fchown fs/open.c:761 [inline]
 __se_sys_fchown fs/open.c:759 [inline]
 __x64_sys_fchown+0x7a/0x90 fs/open.c:759
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f7861c69e59
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:00007ffdd8241b68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000005d
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7861ee2fa0 RCX: 00007f7861c69e59
RDX: 000000000000ee01 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f7861cffd6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7861ee2fac R14: 00007f7861ee2fa0 R15: 00007f7861ee2fa0

Allocated by task 113:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:430 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0xbd/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:463
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:244 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x5d/0x2f0 mm/slab.h:580
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2952 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x162/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2965
 kmem_cache_alloc_node include/linux/slab.h:426 [inline]
 alloc_task_struct_node kernel/fork.c:177 [inline]
 dup_task_struct+0x57/0xbd0 kernel/fork.c:912
 copy_process+0x5cd/0x3300 kernel/fork.c:2101
 kernel_clone+0x233/0x960 kernel/fork.c:2650
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2776 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2760 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x198/0x210 kernel/fork.c:2760
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Freed by task 19:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4a/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x23/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x125/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:362
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:370
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:220 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1600 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc5/0x190 mm/slub.c:1626
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3208 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x100/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:3224
 free_task_struct kernel/fork.c:182 [inline]
 free_task+0xf3/0x230 kernel/fork.c:482
 __put_task_struct+0x2b7/0x420 kernel/fork.c:785
 put_task_struct include/linux/sched/task.h:143 [inline]
 delayed_put_task_struct+0x6f/0x1a0 kernel/exit.c:221
 rcu_do_batch+0x4ef/0xab0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2494
 rcu_core+0x577/0xd80 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2735
 rcu_core_si+0x9/0x10 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2748
 __do_softirq+0x255/0x563 kernel/softirq.c:309

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xd2/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc+0xb/0x10 mm/kasan/generic.c:358
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:2980 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x11a/0x10b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3054
 put_task_struct_rcu_user kernel/exit.c:227 [inline]
 release_task+0x11a0/0x1200 kernel/exit.c:273
 wait_task_zombie kernel/exit.c:1171 [inline]
 wait_consider_task+0x1802/0x27d0 kernel/exit.c:1398
 do_wait_thread kernel/exit.c:1461 [inline]
 do_wait+0x244/0x6c0 kernel/exit.c:1532
 kernel_wait4+0x1d1/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1694
 __do_sys_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1722 [inline]
 __se_sys_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1718 [inline]
 __x64_sys_wait4+0x163/0x230 kernel/exit.c:1718
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888113e90000
 which belongs to the cache task_struct of size 4800
The buggy address is located 112 bytes inside of
 4800-byte region [ffff888113e90000, ffff888113e912c0)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00044fa400 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x113e90
head:ffffea00044fa400 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ffff888100188000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080060006 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 104, ts 3986950037, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:35 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:2456 [inline]
 prep_new_page+0x179/0x180 mm/page_alloc.c:2462
 get_page_from_freelist+0x223b/0x23d0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x290/0x620 mm/page_alloc.c:5384
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1813 [inline]
 new_slab+0x84/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:1874
 new_slab_objects mm/slub.c:2632 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x2a6/0x450 mm/slub.c:2796
 __slab_alloc+0x63/0xa0 mm/slub.c:2836
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2918 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1ac/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2965
 kmem_cache_alloc_node include/linux/slab.h:426 [inline]
 alloc_task_struct_node kernel/fork.c:177 [inline]
 dup_task_struct+0x57/0xbd0 kernel/fork.c:912
 copy_process+0x5cd/0x3300 kernel/fork.c:2101
 kernel_clone+0x233/0x960 kernel/fork.c:2650
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2776 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2760 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x198/0x210 kernel/fork.c:2760
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888113e8ff00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888113e8ff80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff888113e90000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                             ^
 ffff888113e90080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888113e90100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (42):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/17 08:34 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (corrupt fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 01:08 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (corrupt fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 00:39 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (corrupt fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/15 19:16 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da 9cd3beaa .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (corrupt fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/15 18:56 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da 9cd3beaa .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (corrupt fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/15 18:35 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da 9cd3beaa .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (corrupt fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 08:05 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 08:00 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 07:10 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 07:10 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 06:05 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 04:30 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 03:22 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 02:52 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 01:59 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 00:34 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 22:10 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 17:46 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 17:29 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 17:17 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 17:00 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 14:34 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 14:17 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 13:46 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 13:46 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 11:02 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 08:05 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 07:03 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 05:57 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 03:31 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 02:10 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 01:59 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 00:36 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/15 18:08 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da 9cd3beaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/15 18:07 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da 9cd3beaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/18 06:35 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 22:06 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 15:20 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 13:33 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/17 03:41 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
2026/05/16 21:57 android13-5.10-lts 1b32327554da de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_get_inode_usage
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.