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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: 222d, last: 10d
Similar bugs (12)
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 174d 327d 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 1801d 1904d 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 462d 472d 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 5 14d 142d 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 16d 452d 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 303d 427d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/07 07:57
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry ext4 19 C 8 2705d 2708d 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 358d 476d 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 351d 475d 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 416d 452d 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 3 33d 146d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/05 13:22
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry ext4 19 syz error 1 46d 60d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/06/30 17:28
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/16 19:43 13m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/07/26 07:18 6m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/06/26 17:49 10m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/06/26 17:49 17m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/06/26 17:49 9m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/06/07 13:38 6m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/05/15 03:33 9m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/04/16 14:55 1h30m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/04/16 14:55 7m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/04/16 14:55 15m 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 (loop0): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: jqfmt=vfsold,grpid,debug,noload,noauto_da_alloc,commit=0x0000000000000005,init_itable=0x0000000000000009,debug,usrjquota=,nolazytime,mblk_io_submit,,errors=continue
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): dx_probe:806: inode #2: comm syz-executor161: Unrecognised inode hash code 4
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): dx_probe:946: inode #2: comm syz-executor161: 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 ffff888120b20003 by task syz-executor161/297

CPU: 0 PID: 297 Comm: syz-executor161 Not tainted 5.10.240-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x169/0x1d8 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+0x11ca/0x39b0 fs/ext4/dir.c:261
 iterate_dir+0x260/0x570 fs/readdir.c:-1
 __do_sys_getdents64 fs/readdir.c:369 [inline]
 __se_sys_getdents64+0xe5/0x240 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: 0033:0x7fa33240d4a9
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 21 18 00 00 90 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 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffeb26423d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d9
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa3324560e0 RCX: 00007fa33240d4a9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fa3324560a5 R08: 00007ffeb2642410 R09: 00007ffeb2642410
R10: 00007ffeb2642410 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffeb26423fc
R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 431bde82d7b634db R15: 00007ffeb2642430

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea000482c800 refcount:0 mapcount:-128 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x120b20
flags: 0x4000000000000000()
raw: 4000000000000000 ffffea0004841608 ffffffff869f6988 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000003 00000000ffffff7f 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x100cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE), pid 275, ts 28772159375, free_ts 28850287411
 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+0x2235/0x23d0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x268/0x5f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5357
 __alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:544 [inline]
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:557 [inline]
 alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:571 [inline]
 alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:590 [inline]
 wp_page_copy+0x1fd/0x15d0 mm/memory.c:3171
 do_wp_page+0x9a6/0xc80 mm/memory.c:-1
 handle_pte_fault+0xac1/0x3750 mm/memory.c:4810
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:4944 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0xf3f/0x16a0 mm/memory.c:5358
 do_user_addr_fault+0x5a2/0xc80 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1362
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1428 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x5a/0xc0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1484
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:571
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:28 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1349 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1421 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x2b7/0x2d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3336
 free_unref_page_list+0x12e/0x9b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3443
 release_pages+0xe38/0xe80 mm/swap.c:1103
 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x86/0xa0 mm/swap_state.c:356
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:49 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:240 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:247 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x175/0x300 mm/mmu_gather.c:326
 exit_mmap+0x2fc/0x540 mm/mmap.c:3383
 __mmput+0x93/0x2f0 kernel/fork.c:1153
 mmput+0x4e/0x150 kernel/fork.c:1176
 exit_mm kernel/exit.c:539 [inline]
 do_exit+0x9ae/0x2480 kernel/exit.c:859
 do_group_exit+0x141/0x310 kernel/exit.c:986
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:997 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:995 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:995
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888120b1ff00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888120b1ff80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff888120b20000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                   ^
 ffff888120b20080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888120b20100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_readdir:263: inode #2: block 255: comm syz-executor161: path (unknown): bad entry in directory: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=1023, inode=2590052352, rec_len=28762, size=1024 fake=0

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
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.