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KASAN: unknown-crash Read in copy_mc_to_kernel

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/17 13:13
Subsystems: kernel
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Reported-by: syzbot+d155b4893773c196cdd9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d19h, last: 6d19h
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[syzbot] [kernel?] KASAN: unknown-crash Read in copy_mc_to_kernel 0 (1) 2025/10/17 13:13

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: unknown-crash in instrument_memcpy_before include/linux/instrumented.h:163 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: unknown-crash in copy_mc_to_kernel+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/lib/copy_mc.c:74
Read of size 4096 at addr ffff8880af860000 by task syz.5.1091/9436

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9436 Comm: syz.5.1091 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x2b0/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 instrument_memcpy_before include/linux/instrumented.h:163 [inline]
 copy_mc_to_kernel+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/lib/copy_mc.c:74
 dump_page_copy fs/coredump.c:1321 [inline]
 dump_user_range+0x2e4/0xc90 fs/coredump.c:1372
 elf_core_dump+0x3369/0x3960 fs/binfmt_elf.c:2111
 coredump_write+0x116c/0x1900 fs/coredump.c:1049
 vfs_coredump+0x1db5/0x2a60 fs/coredump.c:1170
 get_signal+0x1108/0x1340 kernel/signal.c:3019
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xa0/0x790 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:40 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x7e/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:73
 exc_page_fault+0xab/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1535
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
RIP: 0033:0x7f97dd38eed1
Code: 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 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f
RSP: 002b:00000000fffffd10 EFLAGS: 00010217
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f97dd5e6090 RCX: 00007f97dd38eec9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fffffd10 RDI: 0000000001000000
RBP: 00007f97dd411f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f97dd5e6128 R14: 00007f97dd5e6090 R15: 00007ffcef26f528
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:3 mapcount:1 mapping:ffff888064726de8 index:0x14f pfn:0xaf860
memcg:ffff88801aea1a00
aops:ext4_da_aops ino:7f0 dentry name(?):"syz.IuCCpi"
flags: 0xfff6800000002c(referenced|uptodate|lru|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff6800000002c ffffea0002c0b3c8 ffffea0002be1848 ffff888064726de8
raw: 000000000000014f 0000000000000000 0000000300000000 ffff88801aea1a00
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x152c4a(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_MOVABLE|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 7122, tgid 7122 (syz.3.435), ts 155471149983, free_ts 153032620682
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2365/0x2440 mm/page_alloc.c:3884
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5183
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_frozen_pages_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2487 [inline]
 alloc_pages_noprof+0xa9/0x190 mm/mempolicy.c:2507
 folio_alloc_noprof+0x1e/0x30 mm/mempolicy.c:2517
 filemap_alloc_folio_noprof+0xdf/0x470 mm/filemap.c:1020
 ractl_alloc_folio mm/readahead.c:189 [inline]
 page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x35d/0x9a0 mm/readahead.c:275
 do_async_mmap_readahead mm/filemap.c:3376 [inline]
 filemap_fault+0x62d/0x12b0 mm/filemap.c:3475
 __do_fault+0x138/0x390 mm/memory.c:5280
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:5698 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:5832 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4361 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6177 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault+0x35e3/0x5400 mm/memory.c:6318
 handle_mm_fault+0x40a/0x8e0 mm/memory.c:6487
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:1126 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x165c/0x2a00 mm/gup.c:1428
 __get_user_pages_locked mm/gup.c:1692 [inline]
 get_dump_page+0x1ac/0x3f0 mm/gup.c:2192
 dump_user_range+0x1de/0xc90 fs/coredump.c:1366
 elf_core_dump+0x3369/0x3960 fs/binfmt_elf.c:2111
page last free pid 7072 tgid 7068 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1394 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xdb3/0x14f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2963
 folios_put_refs+0x584/0x670 mm/swap.c:1002
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:101 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x49e/0x14b0 mm/shmem.c:1120
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1232 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x272/0xa70 mm/shmem.c:1360
 evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810
 __dentry_kill+0x209/0x660 fs/dcache.c:669
 dput+0x19f/0x2b0 fs/dcache.c:911
 __fput+0x68e/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:476
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x6b5/0x2300 kernel/exit.c:966
 do_group_exit+0x21c/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1107
 get_signal+0x1285/0x1340 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xa0/0x790 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x72/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:40
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880af85ff00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff8880af85ff80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff8880af860000: 00 c9 2b 58 80 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
                      ^
 ffff8880af860080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff8880af860100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/13 12:54 upstream 3a8660878839 ff1712fe .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: unknown-crash Read in copy_mc_to_kernel
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.