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KASAN: use-after-free Read in generic_perform_write

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/08/31 13:16
Reported-by: syzbot+65fde1a06da8d5b614b1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d05h, last: 3d05h
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in generic_perform_write origin:upstream 19 C error 47 26d 717d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/09/17 14:11
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in generic_perform_write mm 19 C inconclusive done 10473 153d 710d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/28 07:39
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in generic_perform_write origin:lts-only 19 C unreliable 31 72d 722d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/09/12 02:51
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in generic_perform_write (2) hfsplus jfs 19 C error 20 950d 1368d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2021/12/05 01:05
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in generic_perform_write 19 11 1573d 1803d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/09/11 00:48
linux-4.19 KASAN: use-after-free Read in generic_perform_write hfsplus jfs 19 C error 68 913d 1805d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/09/24 08:55
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in generic_perform_write mm fs 19 C error 73 1540d 2603d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/14 08:17

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0xaf1/0x1530 lib/iov_iter.c:592
Read of size 4096 at addr ffff888077507000 by task kworker/u4:1/12

CPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u4:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/14/2025
Workqueue: loop1 loop_workfn
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
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x288/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:187
 __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105
 copy_page_from_iter_atomic+0xaf1/0x1530 lib/iov_iter.c:592
 generic_perform_write+0x350/0x5b0 mm/filemap.c:4024
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xfb/0x120 mm/shmem.c:2884
 do_iter_readv_writev fs/read_write.c:-1 [inline]
 do_iter_write+0x79a/0xc70 fs/read_write.c:860
 lo_write_bvec drivers/block/loop.c:244 [inline]
 lo_write_simple drivers/block/loop.c:266 [inline]
 do_req_filebacked drivers/block/loop.c:490 [inline]
 loop_handle_cmd drivers/block/loop.c:1933 [inline]
 loop_process_work+0x1097/0x1ed0 drivers/block/loop.c:1968
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001dd41c0 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x77507
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea000079de88 ffffea0001dd7e88 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x100dc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_ZERO), pid 8458, tgid 8456 (syz.1.727), ts 403696182904, free_ts 403853552877
 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
 lbmLogInit fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1816 [inline]
 lmLogInit+0x316/0x1a30 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1270
 open_inline_log fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1175 [inline]
 lmLogOpen+0x4ef/0xfb0 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1069
 jfs_mount_rw+0xea/0x670 fs/jfs/jfs_mount.c:257
 jfs_fill_super+0x592/0xac0 fs/jfs/super.c:565
 mount_bdev+0x22b/0x2d0 fs/super.c:1643
 legacy_get_tree+0xea/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:662
 vfs_get_tree+0x8c/0x280 fs/super.c:1764
 do_new_mount+0x24b/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3377
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3717 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3926 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2da/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3903
 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
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+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
 lbmLogShutdown fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1864 [inline]
 lmLogShutdown+0x43a/0x830 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1684
 lmLogClose+0x28a/0x520 fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c:1460
 jfs_umount+0x2ef/0x3c0 fs/jfs/jfs_umount.c:114
 jfs_put_super+0x8c/0x190 fs/jfs/super.c:194
 generic_shutdown_super+0x134/0x2b0 fs/super.c:693
 kill_block_super+0x44/0x90 fs/super.c:1660
 deactivate_locked_super+0x97/0x100 fs/super.c:481
 cleanup_mnt+0x429/0x4c0 fs/namespace.c:1250
 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+0xb1/0x140 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
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888077506f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888077506f80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888077507000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                   ^
 ffff888077507080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888077507100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/31 13:15 linux-6.6.y cc1a1c5b404a 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in generic_perform_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.