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KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2)
Status:
upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/05 13:22
Bug presence:
origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+73836c72f168b93b604e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 487d, last: 60d
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Bug presence (2)
| Date |
Name |
Commit |
Repro |
Result |
| 2026/03/03 |
lts (merge base) |
0182cb5b74ee |
C
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[report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
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| 2026/03/03 |
upstream (ToT) |
af4e9ef3d784 |
C
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[report] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
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Similar bugs (15)
| Kernel |
Title |
Rank
🛈
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Repro |
Cause bisect |
Fix bisect |
Count |
Last |
Reported |
Patched |
Status |
| android-5-10 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2)
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19 |
syz, C |
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12 |
10h53m |
562d
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0/2 |
upstream: reported C repro on 2025/01/19 16:52
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| upstream |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (3)
ext4
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19 |
syz, C |
inconclusive |
done |
6 |
515d |
667d
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0/29 |
auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/16 07:57
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| linux-4.14 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
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19 |
syz, C |
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inconclusive |
6 |
2141d |
2245d
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0/1 |
upstream: reported C repro on 2020/06/12 02:23
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| upstream |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2)
ext4
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19 |
syz, C |
error |
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1 |
803d |
813d
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0/29 |
closed as dup on 2024/06/26 08:39
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| android-5-15 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2)
origin:lts
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19 |
syz, C |
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error |
10 |
79d |
483d
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0/2 |
upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/09 15:24
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| linux-5.15 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
origin:upstream
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19 |
syz, C |
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error |
10 |
71d |
793d
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0/3 |
upstream: reported C repro on 2024/06/03 01:15
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| android-5-15 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
missing-backport
origin:upstream
|
19 |
syz, C |
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error |
4 |
644d |
768d
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0/2 |
auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/07 07:57
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| linux-6.6 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
origin:upstream
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19 |
syz, C |
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error |
1 |
164d |
164d
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0/2 |
upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/22 03:13
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| upstream |
KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
prio:high
ext4
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19 |
syz, C |
error |
error |
6 |
45d |
400d
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0/29 |
upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/30 17:28
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| upstream |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
ext4
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19 |
syz, C |
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8 |
3046d |
3048d
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22/29 |
closed as dup on 2018/03/31 22:38
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| android-5-10 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
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19 |
syz, C |
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error |
2 |
698d |
817d
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0/2 |
auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/26 18:56
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| android-6-1 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
missing-backport
origin:upstream
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19 |
syz, C |
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error |
4 |
692d |
816d
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0/2 |
auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/21 14:06
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| linux-6.1 |
KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
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19 |
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15 |
756d |
793d
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0/3 |
auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/17 20:54
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| linux-4.14 |
KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
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17 |
syz, C |
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18 |
1262d |
2309d
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0/1 |
upstream: reported C repro on 2020/04/08 18:25
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| upstream |
KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
ext4
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17 |
syz, C |
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18 |
3047d |
3048d
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5/29 |
fixed on 2018/05/29 12:14
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Last patch testing requests (6)
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Fix bisection attempts (7)
Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs warning (device loop2): dx_probe:833: inode #2: comm syz.2.17: Unrecognised inode hash code 4
EXT4-fs warning (device loop2): dx_probe:966: inode #2: comm syz.2.17: Corrupt directory, running e2fsck is recommended
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x7c2/0x970 fs/ext4/dir.c:85
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88812992d003 by task syz.2.17/361
CPU: 1 PID: 361 Comm: syz.2.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:88
dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description+0x71/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:316
print_report+0x4a/0x60 mm/kasan/report.c:420
kasan_report+0x122/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:524
__asan_report_load2_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:349
__ext4_check_dir_entry+0x7c2/0x970 fs/ext4/dir.c:85
ext4_readdir+0x1315/0x3e10 fs/ext4/dir.c:261
iterate_dir+0x271/0x610 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
x64_sys_call+0x15c/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:218
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fdcead9c799
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:00007fffac9d3068 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d9
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdceb015fa0 RCX: 00007fdcead9c799
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007fdceae32c99 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdceb015fac R14: 00007fdceb015fa0 R15: 00007fdceb015fa0
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0004a64b40 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x12992d
flags: 0x4000000000000000(zone=1)
raw: 4000000000000000 ffffea0004a67388 ffff8881f6f3c868 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 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 0x8140dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_CMA), pid 361, tgid 361 (syz.2.17), ts 26379792674, free_ts 26381791822
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f5/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:2670
prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2677
get_page_from_freelist+0x2d12/0x2d80 mm/page_alloc.c:4583
__alloc_pages+0x1fa/0x610 mm/page_alloc.c:5924
__folio_alloc+0x12/0x40 mm/page_alloc.c:5957
__folio_alloc_node include/linux/gfp.h:245 [inline]
folio_alloc include/linux/gfp.h:274 [inline]
alloc_page_vma include/linux/gfp.h:283 [inline]
wp_page_copy+0x27d/0x15a0 mm/memory.c:3207
do_wp_page+0x9f2/0xfc0 mm/memory.c:-1
handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5192 [inline]
__handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5316 [inline]
handle_mm_fault+0x1124/0x26c0 mm/memory.c:5456
do_user_addr_fault+0x905/0x1050 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1321
handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1464 [inline]
exc_page_fault+0x51/0xb0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1517
asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1578 [inline]
free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1652 [inline]
free_unref_page_prepare+0x742/0x750 mm/page_alloc.c:3618
free_unref_page_list+0x117/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3769
release_pages+0xaf2/0xb50 mm/swap.c:1048
free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x86/0xa0 mm/swap_state.c:315
tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:59 [inline]
tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:254 [inline]
tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:261 [inline]
tlb_finish_mmu+0x1aa/0x370 mm/mmu_gather.c:361
unmap_region+0x2b7/0x320 mm/mmap.c:2419
do_mas_align_munmap+0xbed/0x1320 mm/mmap.c:2693
do_mas_munmap+0x241/0x2b0 mm/mmap.c:2751
__vm_munmap+0x1bd/0x330 mm/mmap.c:3050
__do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:3076 [inline]
__se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:3072 [inline]
__x64_sys_munmap+0x6b/0x80 mm/mmap.c:3072
x64_sys_call+0x8a/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:12
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88812992cf00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff88812992cf80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88812992d000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
^
ffff88812992d080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff88812992d100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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EXT4-fs error (device loop2): ext4_readdir:263: inode #2: block 255: comm syz.2.17: path /0/file0: bad entry in directory: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=1023, inode=0, rec_len=0, size=1024 fake=0
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.