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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: 272d, last: 9d17h
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 225d 377d 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 1851d 1955d 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 513d 523d 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 9d10h 193d 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 67d 503d 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 354d 478d 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 2756d 2758d 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 409d 527d 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 402d 526d 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 466d 503d 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 8d06h 197d 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 C error 2 6d19h 110d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/30 17:28
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/10/09 22:33 11m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/10/09 22:33 10m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/09/19 17:50 14m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/09/19 17:50 12m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/09/19 17:50 15m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/09/19 17:50 11m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/09/03 06:05 14m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
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
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 (loop2): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: ,errors=continue
ext4 filesystem being mounted at /1/file0 supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff)
EXT4-fs warning (device loop2): dx_probe:806: inode #2: comm syz.2.18: Unrecognised inode hash code 20
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 ffff888110150003 by task syz.2.18/373

CPU: 1 PID: 373 Comm: syz.2.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/14/2025
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: 0033:0x7ff5f5bf2ec9
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:00007fff6f7c45e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d9
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff5f5e49fa0 RCX: 00007ff5f5bf2ec9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007ff5f5c75f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff5f5e49fa0 R14: 00007ff5f5e49fa0 R15: 0000000000000003

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004405400 refcount:0 mapcount:-128 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888110154400 pfn:0x110150
flags: 0x4000000000000000()
raw: 4000000000000000 ffffea0004404e08 ffffea0004405808 0000000000000000
raw: ffff888110154400 0000000000000003 00000000ffffff7f 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 101, ts 8905576943, free_ts 38753530844
 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: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+0x1af/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2965
 getname_flags+0xb9/0x500 fs/namei.c:141
 getname+0x19/0x20 fs/namei.c:212
 do_sys_openat2+0xd9/0x6d0 fs/open.c:1211
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1233 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1249 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1244 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x136/0x160 fs/open.c:1244
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
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_pages_ok+0x7fc/0x820 mm/page_alloc.c:1629
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:5431 [inline]
 __free_pages+0xdd/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5440
 __free_slab+0xcf/0x190 mm/slub.c:1899
 free_slab mm/slub.c:1914 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:1920 [inline]
 unfreeze_partials+0x15f/0x190 mm/slub.c:2415
 put_cpu_partial+0xc1/0x180 mm/slub.c:2451
 __slab_free+0x2c9/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:3100
 do_slab_free mm/slub.c:3196 [inline]
 ___cache_free+0x111/0x130 mm/slub.c:3215
 qlink_free+0x50/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:157
 qlist_free_all+0x5f/0xb0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14a/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:440
 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+0x165/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2965
 kmem_cache_alloc_node include/linux/slab.h:423 [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+0x5f6/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1889
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x41d/0x580 net/socket.c:2006

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88811014ff00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88811014ff80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff888110150000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                   ^
 ffff888110150080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888110150100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================
EXT4-fs error (device loop2): ext4_readdir:263: inode #2: block 3: comm syz.2.18: path /1/file0: bad entry in directory: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=2047, inode=2321768448, rec_len=33037, size=2048 fake=0
EXT4-fs error (device loop2) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:5933: Corrupt filesystem
EXT4-fs error (device loop2): ext4_dirty_inode:6143: inode #2: comm syz.2.18: mark_inode_dirty error

Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
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.