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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/20 02:07
Subsystems: overlayfs
Labels: prio:normal actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+ced26b784bf977d223dd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d13h, last: 4d13h
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db0c506b moderation Actionable: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dentry_name 2026/09/20 01:33 2026/09/20 01:33 2026/09/20 02:06 853b104b
1f1c3c77 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dentry_name 2026/09/17 02:03 2026/09/17 02:03 2026/09/17 02:31 95928915
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[syzbot] [overlayfs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dentry_name 0 (1) 2026/09/20 02:07

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dentry_name+0x328/0xb90 lib/vsprintf.c:926
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88804090c3c0 by task syz.9.246/8095

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8095 Comm: syz.9.246 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/08/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 dentry_name+0x328/0xb90 lib/vsprintf.c:926
 pointer+0x31a/0x1120 lib/vsprintf.c:2587
 vsnprintf+0x626/0xef0 lib/vsprintf.c:2953
 va_format lib/vsprintf.c:1725 [inline]
 pointer+0xa12/0x1120 lib/vsprintf.c:2577
 vsnprintf+0x626/0xef0 lib/vsprintf.c:2953
 vprintk_store+0x3d9/0xdc0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2307
 vprintk_emit+0x192/0x560 kernel/printk/printk.c:2455
 _printk+0xdd/0x130 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504
 __dynamic_pr_debug+0x1a2/0x260 lib/dynamic_debug.c:879
 ovl_do_mkdir fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:258 [inline]
 ovl_workdir_create+0x86f/0x8b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:345
 ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:678 [inline]
 ovl_get_workdir+0x339/0x1980 fs/overlayfs/super.c:836
 ovl_fill_super_creds fs/overlayfs/super.c:1449 [inline]
 ovl_fill_super+0x1702/0x4360 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1561
 vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1391 [inline]
 get_tree_nodev+0xbb/0x150 fs/super.c:1410
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1933
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3772 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x319/0xdc0 fs/namespace.c:3848
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4374
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7efca640e159
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:00007efca4666028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007efca6695fa0 RCX: 00007efca640e159
RDX: 00002000000001c0 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007efca64a503b R08: 0000200000000280 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007efca6696038 R14: 00007efca6695fa0 R15: 00007ffe1c4c4c78
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 8095:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x35d/0x680 mm/slub.c:5029
 __d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1907
 d_alloc+0x4b/0x190 fs/dcache.c:1986
 lookup_one_qstr_excl+0xd8/0x360 fs/namei.c:1806
 __start_dirop fs/namei.c:2920 [inline]
 start_dirop fs/namei.c:2942 [inline]
 start_creating+0xce/0x100 fs/namei.c:3406
 ovl_start_creating_upper fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:429 [inline]
 ovl_workdir_create+0x1a1/0x8b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:321
 ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:678 [inline]
 ovl_get_workdir+0x339/0x1980 fs/overlayfs/super.c:836
 ovl_fill_super_creds fs/overlayfs/super.c:1449 [inline]
 ovl_fill_super+0x1702/0x4360 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1561
 vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1391 [inline]
 get_tree_nodev+0xbb/0x150 fs/super.c:1410
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1933
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3772 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x319/0xdc0 fs/namespace.c:3848
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4374
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 20:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6508 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x187/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6635
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2650 [inline]
 rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2919 [inline]
 rcu_cpu_kthread+0xb2c/0x1740 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3007
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x565/0xa70 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3181 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xee/0x8b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3301
 dentry_kill+0x4d3/0x880 fs/dcache.c:845
 finish_dput+0x1a/0x260 fs/dcache.c:1001
 end_dirop fs/namei.c:2956 [inline]
 end_creating include/linux/namei.h:120 [inline]
 vfs_mkdir+0x11c/0x620 fs/namei.c:5422
 ovl_do_mkdir fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:257 [inline]
 ovl_workdir_create+0x45f/0x8b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:345
 ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:678 [inline]
 ovl_get_workdir+0x339/0x1980 fs/overlayfs/super.c:836
 ovl_fill_super_creds fs/overlayfs/super.c:1449 [inline]
 ovl_fill_super+0x1702/0x4360 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1561
 vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1391 [inline]
 get_tree_nodev+0xbb/0x150 fs/super.c:1410
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1933
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3772 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x319/0xdc0 fs/namespace.c:3848
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4374
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88804090c370
 which belongs to the cache dentry of size 376
The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of
 freed 376-byte region [ffff88804090c370, ffff88804090c4e8)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x4090c
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff88802a5fe701
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff8881404153c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000200120012 00000000f5000000 ffff88802a5fe701
head: 0080000000000040 ffff8881404153c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000200120012 00000000f5000000 ffff88802a5fe701
head: 0080000000000001 ffffffffffffff81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0xd20d0(__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4953, tgid 4953 (udevd), ts 60620923678
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2591/0x2600 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x230/0x5c0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7417
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x339/0x690 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x455/0x680 mm/slub.c:5029
 __d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1907
 d_alloc_parallel+0xde/0x16c0 fs/dcache.c:2766
 lookup_open+0x2cd/0x1a60 fs/namei.c:4471
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4767 [inline]
 path_openat+0x67c/0x1d60 fs/namei.c:4997
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5029
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1417
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1434
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88804090c280: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88804090c300: 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb
>ffff88804090c380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                           ^
 ffff88804090c400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88804090c480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/15 22:28 upstream 587858367581 81a27d1a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dentry_name
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.