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KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/01/31 03:06
Reported-by: syzbot+caaaafd8611645a190df@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 567d, last: 6d10h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget 19 2 342d 384d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/21 07:26
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget (3) 19 C 58 87d 160d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/13 17:21
linux-6.1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget (2) 19 17 20d 200d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/02/01 20:39
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget fs reiserfs 19 278 568d 806d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/04/09 13:42
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget origin:lts 19 C 435 1h18m 141d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/01 19:00
linux-5.15 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget 19 6 673d 716d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/25 22:09
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget 19 13 545d 752d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/05/22 19:07
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget 19 C 378 6h23m 165d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/08 14:28
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget (2) 19 4 427d 445d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/17 10:19
linux-6.1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget 19 14 507d 763d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/07/09 19:10
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget 19 2 1d10h 5d21h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/08/15 02:29

Sample crash report:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 1024
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in check_igot_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:-1 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ext4_iget+0x2b8/0x3d90 fs/ext4/inode.c:4673
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88806061a700 by task syz.0.4017/13335

CPU: 1 PID: 13335 Comm: syz.0.4017 Not tainted 5.15.189-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 check_igot_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:-1 [inline]
 __ext4_iget+0x2b8/0x3d90 fs/ext4/inode.c:4673
 ext4_fill_super+0x77d5/0x9a00 fs/ext4/super.c:4839
 mount_bdev+0x287/0x3c0 fs/super.c:1400
 legacy_get_tree+0xe6/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:611
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3014
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3357 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3565 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2d6/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3542
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fa3b5deb38a
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb a6 e8 de 1a 00 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 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:00007fa3b4050e68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa3b4050ef0 RCX: 00007fa3b5deb38a
RDX: 0000200000000140 RSI: 00002000000005c0 RDI: 00007fa3b4050eb0
RBP: 0000200000000140 R08: 00007fa3b4050ef0 R09: 000000000000c248
R10: 000000000000c248 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00002000000005c0
R13: 00007fa3b4050eb0 R14: 00000000000005e8 R15: 0000200000000180
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 10591:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x9c/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:467
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3220 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3228 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x100/0x290 mm/slub.c:3233
 reiserfs_alloc_inode+0x19/0xb0 fs/reiserfs/super.c:642
 alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
 iget5_locked+0x9e/0x250 fs/inode.c:1263
 reiserfs_fill_super+0x11c5/0x23e0 fs/reiserfs/super.c:2057
 mount_bdev+0x287/0x3c0 fs/super.c:1400
 legacy_get_tree+0xe6/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:611
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3014
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3357 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3565 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2d6/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3542
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:3011 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x182/0x930 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3091
 destroy_inode fs/inode.c:316 [inline]
 evict+0x7da/0x870 fs/inode.c:662
 reiserfs_fill_super+0x145c/0x23e0 fs/reiserfs/super.c:2082
 mount_bdev+0x287/0x3c0 fs/super.c:1400
 legacy_get_tree+0xe6/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:611
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3014
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3357 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3565 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2d6/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3542
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88806061a120
 which belongs to the cache reiser_inode_cache of size 1568
The buggy address is located 1504 bytes inside of
 1568-byte region [ffff88806061a120, ffff88806061a740)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001818600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88806061a120 pfn:0x60618
head:ffffea0001818600 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
memcg:ffff8880248f2701
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff88801daa0140
raw: ffff88806061a120 000000008013000d 00000001ffffffff ffff8880248f2701
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0x1d20d0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_RECLAIMABLE), pid 4839, ts 95469415308, free_ts 94747843803
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1b77/0x1c60 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1e1/0x470 mm/page_alloc.c:5474
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1775 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1912 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1975
 ___slab_alloc+0x81e/0xdf0 mm/slub.c:3008
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3095 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3186 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3228 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x195/0x290 mm/slub.c:3233
 reiserfs_alloc_inode+0x19/0xb0 fs/reiserfs/super.c:642
 alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
 iget5_locked+0x9e/0x250 fs/inode.c:1263
 reiserfs_fill_super+0x11c5/0x23e0 fs/reiserfs/super.c:2057
 mount_bdev+0x287/0x3c0 fs/super.c:1400
 legacy_get_tree+0xe6/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:611
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3014
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3357 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3565 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2d6/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3542
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x94/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2015 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2021 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1a5/0x200 mm/slub.c:2507
 put_cpu_partial+0x12d/0x190 mm/slub.c:2587
 qlist_free_all+0x35/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x150/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:444
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3220 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3228 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x100/0x290 mm/slub.c:3233
 getname_flags+0xb5/0x500 fs/namei.c:138
 do_sys_openat2+0xcf/0x4a0 fs/open.c:1247
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1269 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1285 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1280 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1280
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88806061a600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88806061a680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88806061a700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                   ^
 ffff88806061a780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88806061a800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================

Crashes (42):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/14 13:29 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 5d8c2ac2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/08/12 17:50 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 22ec1469 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/08/11 18:45 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 c06e8995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/08/08 02:05 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 6a893178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/07/10 16:59 linux-5.15.y 2f693b607545 3cda49cf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/06/04 10:11 linux-5.15.y 98f47d0e9b8c e565f08d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/06/02 05:14 linux-5.15.y 98f47d0e9b8c 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/05/24 03:48 linux-5.15.y 98f47d0e9b8c ed351ea7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/05/09 00:41 linux-5.15.y 16fdf2c7111b bb813bcc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/05/07 16:55 linux-5.15.y 16fdf2c7111b dbf35fa1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/04/05 19:36 linux-5.15.y 0c935c049b5c 1c65791e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/04/02 05:50 linux-5.15.y 0c935c049b5c c799dfdd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/04/02 05:46 linux-5.15.y 0c935c049b5c c799dfdd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/04/01 02:08 linux-5.15.y 0c935c049b5c 36d76a97 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/03/18 14:42 linux-5.15.y 0c935c049b5c 22a6c2b1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/02/07 19:48 linux-5.15.y c16c81c81336 ef44b750 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/12/13 20:33 linux-5.15.y 0a51d2d4527b 7cbfbb3a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/08/09 17:18 linux-5.15.y 7e89efd3ae1c a83d9288 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/07/21 09:47 linux-5.15.y 7c6d66f0266f b88348e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/04/12 02:14 linux-5.15.y cdfd0a7f0139 27de0a5c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/04/02 00:09 linux-5.15.y 9465fef4ae35 6baf5069 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/01/31 03:05 linux-5.15.y 6139f2a02fe0 7f400fcb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/06/11 16:37 linux-5.15.y 1c700860e8bc 98683f8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/05/02 16:15 linux-5.15.y 16fdf2c7111b b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/03/29 17:09 linux-5.15.y 0c935c049b5c d3999433 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/02/28 14:13 linux-5.15.y c16c81c81336 67cf5345 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/01/29 00:45 linux-5.15.y 003148680b79 865ef71e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/01/27 22:00 linux-5.15.y 003148680b79 18070896 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/01/23 18:05 linux-5.15.y 003148680b79 521b0ce3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/09/16 14:47 linux-5.15.y 3a5928702e71 c673ca06 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/05/30 03:44 linux-5.15.y c61bd26ae81a 34889ee3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/04/02 00:37 linux-5.15.y 9465fef4ae35 6baf5069 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/04/01 07:28 linux-5.15.y 9465fef4ae35 6baf5069 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2024/03/29 18:25 linux-5.15.y 9465fef4ae35 c52bcb23 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_iget
2025/05/06 02:01 linux-5.15.y 16fdf2c7111b ae98e6b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
2025/03/03 19:55 linux-5.15.y c16c81c81336 c3901742 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
2025/02/07 07:11 linux-5.15.y c16c81c81336 53657d1b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
2025/07/28 14:00 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 6654ea9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
2025/03/26 01:56 linux-5.15.y 0c935c049b5c 89d30d73 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
2025/01/24 20:34 linux-5.15.y 003148680b79 1293872d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
2024/10/29 14:09 linux-5.15.y 74cdd62cb470 66aeb999 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
2024/07/08 03:47 linux-5.15.y f45bea23c39c 2a40360c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in __ext4_iget
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.