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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ext4_read_inline_data

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/21 05:23
Reported-by: syzbot+ac7795594cbc0754046a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d10h, last: 7d07h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_read_inline_data ext4 19 C 4 170d 166d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/19 11:05

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs (loop0): encrypted files will use data=ordered instead of data journaling mode
EXT4-fs (loop0): 1 truncate cleaned up
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 r/w without journal. Quota mode: none.
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ext4_read_inline_data+0x1c0/0x2a0 fs/ext4/inline.c:209
Read of size 68 at addr ffff888079a86c80 by task syz.0.17/5927

CPU: 0 PID: 5927 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 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+0x241/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:187
 __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105
 ext4_read_inline_data+0x1c0/0x2a0 fs/ext4/inline.c:209
 ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock+0x138/0x730 fs/ext4/inline.c:1214
 ext4_try_add_inline_entry+0x73c/0xa70 fs/ext4/inline.c:1340
 ext4_add_entry+0x5cc/0xd90 fs/ext4/namei.c:2458
 ext4_mkdir+0x524/0xc90 fs/ext4/namei.c:3081
 vfs_mkdir+0x2a5/0x470 fs/namei.c:4121
 do_mkdirat+0x1dc/0x450 fs/namei.c:4144
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4159 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4157 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x89/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4157
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f76c7f9bcc7
Code: 00 66 90 48 89 f2 b9 00 01 00 00 48 89 fe bf 9c ff ff ff e9 db f7 ff ff 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 b8 02 01 00 00 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:00007ffd1c5c14f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000102
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd1c5c1580 RCX: 00007f76c7f9bcc7
RDX: 00000000000001ff RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c
RBP: 0000200000000140 R08: 0000200000000080 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000200000000140 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000080
R13: 00007ffd1c5c1540 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5143:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:198 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1007 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xb7/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe6/0x5c0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x282/0x560 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 security_inode_getattr+0xd3/0x120 security/security.c:2154
 vfs_getattr fs/stat.c:173 [inline]
 vfs_fstat fs/stat.c:198 [inline]
 __do_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:473 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:470 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstat+0x12c/0x250 fs/stat.c:470
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 5143:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x28/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x587/0x5c0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:286
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x282/0x560 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 security_inode_getattr+0xd3/0x120 security/security.c:2154
 vfs_getattr fs/stat.c:173 [inline]
 vfs_fstat fs/stat.c:198 [inline]
 __do_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:473 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:470 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstat+0x12c/0x250 fs/stat.c:470
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888079a86000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 3200 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff888079a86000, ffff888079a87000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001e6a000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x79a80
head:ffffea0001e6a000 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017c42140 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 5143, tgid 5143 (udevd), ts 78856878592, free_ts 77266302374
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1582
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1589 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2181/0x22a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3221
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4501
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x180 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5c/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x11f/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa7/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe6/0x5c0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x224/0x460 security/tomoyo/file.c:771
 security_file_open+0x62/0xa0 security/security.c:2855
 do_dentry_open+0x32b/0x14b0 fs/open.c:916
 do_open fs/namei.c:3640 [inline]
 path_openat+0x284f/0x3270 fs/namei.c:3797
 do_filp_open+0x1f2/0x430 fs/namei.c:3824
 do_sys_openat2+0x134/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1421
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1447
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1182 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7d7/0x8f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2366
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2459
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2127 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1cf/0x210 mm/slub.c:2667
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2743
 __slab_free+0x319/0x400 mm/slub.c:3700
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6a/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1af/0x310 mm/slub.c:3540
 __alloc_skb+0x103/0x2c0 net/core/skbuff.c:643
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1316 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:1010 [inline]
 inet6_netconf_notify_devconf+0x10f/0x1d0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:582
 __addrconf_sysctl_unregister net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7249 [inline]
 addrconf_sysctl_unregister net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7273 [inline]
 addrconf_ifdown+0x155c/0x18a0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4001
 addrconf_notify+0x6c6/0x1010 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
 notifier_call_chain+0x18f/0x380 kernel/notifier.c:93
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2077 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2091 [inline]
 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x1037/0x1910 net/core/dev.c:11124

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888079a86b80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888079a86c00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888079a86c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff888079a86d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888079a86d80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/21 07:16 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 43bfcdb0 .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-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ext4_read_inline_data
2026/06/21 08:21 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 43bfcdb0 .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-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_read_inline_data
2026/06/21 06:16 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 43bfcdb0 .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-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_read_inline_data
2026/06/21 05:22 linux-6.6.y d1cfde2d5d15 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ext4_read_inline_data
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.