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KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/01/19 16:52
Reported-by: syzbot+5ba45d89d357ee2e3c8c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 404d, last: 7d13h
Similar bugs (13)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (3) ext4 19 C inconclusive done 6 356d 509d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/16 07:57
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry 19 C inconclusive 6 1982d 2086d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/06/12 02:23
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2) ext4 19 C error 1 644d 654d 0/29 closed as dup on 2024/06/26 08:39
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2) origin:lts 19 C 8 4d21h 324d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/09 15:24
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry origin:upstream 19 C error 10 56d 634d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/06/03 01:15
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry missing-backport origin:upstream 19 C error 4 485d 609d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/07 07:57
linux-6.6 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry origin:upstream 19 C 1 5d14h 5d14h 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/22 03:13
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry ext4 19 C error 6 3d22h 242d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/30 17:28
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry ext4 19 C 8 2887d 2889d 22/29 closed as dup on 2018/03/31 22:38
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry 19 C error 2 540d 658d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/26 18:56
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry missing-backport origin:upstream 19 C error 4 533d 657d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/21 14:06
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry 19 15 597d 634d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/17 20:54
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2) origin:lts 19 C error 6 13d 328d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/05 13:22
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/02/20 03:47 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/02/20 03:47 6m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/02/20 03:47 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/02/20 03:47 9m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/02/20 03:47 6m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/01/31 15:40 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/01/31 15:40 8m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/01/31 15:40 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/01/06 09:29 8m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/12/23 05:00 6m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/03/05 14:18 1h47m bisect fix android13-5.10-lts OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs warning (device loop2): dx_probe:860: inode #2: comm syz.2.18: dx entry: limit 65535 != root limit 120
EXT4-fs warning (device loop2): dx_probe:946: inode #2: comm syz.2.18: Corrupt directory, running e2fsck is recommended
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x7c2/0x970 fs/ext4/dir.c:85
Read of size 2 at addr ffff888110db7003 by task syz.2.18/397

CPU: 0 PID: 397 Comm: syz.2.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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_load2_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:307
 __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x7c2/0x970 fs/ext4/dir.c:85
 ext4_readdir+0x123f/0x3ab0 fs/ext4/dir.c:261
 iterate_dir+0x260/0x570 fs/readdir.c:-1
 __do_sys_getdents64 fs/readdir.c:369 [inline]
 __se_sys_getdents64+0xf2/0x250 fs/readdir.c:354
 __x64_sys_getdents64+0x7b/0x90 fs/readdir.c:354
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f8057b80eb9
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:00007ffd1afb8708 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d9
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8057dfbfa0 RCX: 00007f8057b80eb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f8057beec1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8057dfbfac R14: 00007f8057dfbfa0 R15: 00007f8057dfbfa0

Allocated by task 105:
 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_skb+0x9e/0x520 net/core/skbuff.c:200
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1178 [inline]
 netlink_sendmsg+0x605/0xb50 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1889
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5b7/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2376
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2430
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2459 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2468 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2466 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1f9/0x2c0 net/socket.c:2466
 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 ffff888110db7000
 which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 248
The buggy address is located 3 bytes inside of
 248-byte region [ffff888110db7000, ffff888110db70f8)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004436dc0 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888110db7140 pfn:0x110db7
flags: 0x4000000000000200(slab)
raw: 4000000000000200 ffffea00043c9400 0000000200000002 ffff888107d92180
raw: ffff888110db7140 00000000800c0000 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 105, ts 4591616762, 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:5370
 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_skb+0x9e/0x520 net/core/skbuff.c:200
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1178 [inline]
 netlink_sendmsg+0x605/0xb50 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1889
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5b7/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2376
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2430
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2459 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2468 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2466 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1f9/0x2c0 net/socket.c:2466
 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:
 ffff888110db6f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888110db6f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff888110db7000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff888110db7080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc
 ffff888110db7100: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
EXT4-fs error (device loop2): ext4_readdir:263: inode #2: block 3: comm syz.2.18: path /1/file0: bad entry in directory: directory entry overrun - offset=1023, inode=3468742911, rec_len=33036, size=1024 fake=0

Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/06 03:46 android13-5.10-lts 58c592510fcd f03c4191 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/11/06 11:28 android13-5.10-lts ab3e1c0dd1ff a6c9c731 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/11/06 10:20 android13-5.10-lts ab3e1c0dd1ff a6c9c731 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/09/24 13:52 android13-5.10-lts 911f602c2237 0abd0691 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (clean fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/09/04 15:55 android13-5.10-lts dce613ec61e0 d291dd2d .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/08/19 10:16 android13-5.10-lts 1154f779f3f3 523f460e .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/04/02 14:12 android13-5.10-lts 094fc3778d6b c799dfdd .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/04/02 07:54 android13-5.10-lts 094fc3778d6b c799dfdd .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/03/15 02:34 android13-5.10-lts fc9aa81462ee e2826670 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/01/19 17:50 android13-5.10-lts fbe98d68b6b3 f2cb035c .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/01/19 16:50 android13-5.10-lts fbe98d68b6b3 f2cb035c .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.