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KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/13 15:52
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+9231067e328b56b281ac@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 48d, last: 4d05h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/07/14 linux-6.6.y (ToT) 59a2de10b81a C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/07/14 upstream (ToT) 347e9f5043c8 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode origin:upstream missing-backport 19 C inconclusive 2846 1d18h 495d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/22 17:59
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode fs 19 1 572d 568d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/04/05 09:37
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode (2) fs 19 C inconclusive error 21224 145d 478d 29/29 fixed on 2025/07/16 08:24
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode missing-backport origin:upstream 19 C done 2892 2d00h 503d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/14 13:45
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/13 23:45 2h05m bisect fix linux-6.6.y OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
VFS: Found a Xenix FS (block size = 1024) on device loop0
syz.0.17: attempt to access beyond end of device
loop0: rw=0, sector=6491536, nr_sectors = 2 limit=128
Buffer I/O error on dev loop0, logical block 3245768, async page read
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in sysv_new_inode+0x10c5/0x1270 fs/sysv/ialloc.c:153
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88806d3c61ce by task syz.0.17/5943

CPU: 1 PID: 5943 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted 6.6.97-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
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/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:475
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:588
 sysv_new_inode+0x10c5/0x1270 fs/sysv/ialloc.c:153
 sysv_mknod+0x4e/0xe0 fs/sysv/namei.c:53
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3488 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3556 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1277/0x3190 fs/namei.c:3786
 do_filp_open+0x1c5/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:3816
 do_sys_openat2+0x12c/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1419
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1450 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1445 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1445
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7f8f6898e929
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:00007ffd5b7195e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8f68bb5fa0 RCX: 00007f8f6898e929
RDX: 0000000000101042 RSI: 0000200000000180 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f8f68a10b39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00000000000001b6 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8f68bb5fa0 R14: 00007f8f68bb5fa0 R15: 0000000000000004
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001b4f180 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x6d3c6
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001b4f0c8 ffffea0001b4fd48 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 0x140dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), pid 5905, tgid 5905 (dhcpcd-run-hook), ts 101055668992, free_ts 101459567536
 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
 __folio_alloc+0x10/0x20 mm/page_alloc.c:4489
 vma_alloc_folio+0x47a/0x8f0 mm/mempolicy.c:2242
 do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:4149 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:3686 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5025 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5166 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1a38/0x4920 mm/memory.c:5331
 do_user_addr_fault+0xad0/0x12e0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1324
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1465 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x67/0x110 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1521
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
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_list+0xbe/0x860 mm/page_alloc.c:2475
 release_pages+0x1fa0/0x2220 mm/swap.c:1022
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:98 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:293 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu+0x368/0x4f0 mm/mmu_gather.c:300
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xc3/0x1d0 mm/mmu_gather.c:392
 exit_mmap+0x3f0/0xb50 mm/mmap.c:3311
 __mmput+0x118/0x3c0 kernel/fork.c:1355
 exit_mm+0x1da/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:569
 do_exit+0x88e/0x23c0 kernel/exit.c:870
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1024
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1035 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1033 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1033
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88806d3c6080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88806d3c6100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88806d3c6180: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                                              ^
 ffff88806d3c6200: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88806d3c6280: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/13 16:51 linux-6.6.y 59a2de10b81a 3cda49cf .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/07/13 16:22 linux-6.6.y 59a2de10b81a 3cda49cf .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/08/26 16:46 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/08/26 16:46 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/08/24 01:16 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/08/14 10:49 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/08/14 10:49 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/08/14 10:42 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/08/14 10:41 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/07/13 15:52 linux-6.6.y 59a2de10b81a 3cda49cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
2025/07/13 15:52 linux-6.6.y 59a2de10b81a 3cda49cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in sysv_new_inode
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.