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KASAN: use-after-free Read in quotad_error

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/19 01:42
Reported-by: syzbot+f2b6e998ff712cb4660d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 73d, last: 4d22h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in quotad_error 19 3 45d 127d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/11/25 11:24

Sample crash report:
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:134 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in gfs2_withdrawn fs/gfs2/util.h:207 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in quotad_error+0x60/0x170 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1506
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880282400a8 by task gfs2_quotad/4677

CPU: 0 PID: 4677 Comm: gfs2_quotad Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 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_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x235/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
 test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:134 [inline]
 gfs2_withdrawn fs/gfs2/util.h:207 [inline]
 quotad_error+0x60/0x170 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1506
 quotad_check_timeo fs/gfs2/quota.c:1520 [inline]
 gfs2_quotad+0x414/0x890 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1586
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4663:
 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_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 init_sbd fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:77 [inline]
 gfs2_fill_super+0x17d/0x1f00 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1151
 get_tree_bdev+0x3f1/0x610 fs/super.c:1325
 gfs2_get_tree+0x4d/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3034
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3377 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3585 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e3/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3562
 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

Freed by task 4188:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 generic_shutdown_super+0x130/0x300 fs/super.c:475
 kill_block_super+0x7c/0xe0 fs/super.c:1427
 deactivate_locked_super+0x93/0xf0 fs/super.c:335
 cleanup_mnt+0x42d/0x4e0 fs/namespace.c:1148
 task_work_run+0x125/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10f/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888028240000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 168 bytes inside of
 8192-byte region [ffff888028240000, ffff888028242000)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0000a09000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x28240
head:ffffea0000a09000 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff888016c42280
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 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 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 4663, ts 114930308450, free_ts 110303021078
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1bbd/0x1ca0 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
 ___slab_alloc+0x80a/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1a5/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:3250
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 init_sbd fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:77 [inline]
 gfs2_fill_super+0x17d/0x1f00 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1151
 get_tree_bdev+0x3f1/0x610 fs/super.c:1325
 gfs2_get_tree+0x4d/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3034
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3377 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3585 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e3/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3562
 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+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 kasan_depopulate_vmalloc_pte+0x67/0x80 mm/kasan/shadow.c:375
 apply_to_pte_range mm/memory.c:2573 [inline]
 apply_to_pmd_range mm/memory.c:2617 [inline]
 apply_to_pud_range mm/memory.c:2653 [inline]
 apply_to_p4d_range mm/memory.c:2689 [inline]
 __apply_to_page_range+0x983/0xd10 mm/memory.c:2725
 kasan_release_vmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/shadow.c:485
 __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0xafc/0x1950 mm/vmalloc.c:1711
 _vm_unmap_aliases+0x410/0x4a0 mm/vmalloc.c:2114
 change_page_attr_set_clr+0x323/0xca0 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:1740
 change_page_attr_clear arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:1797 [inline]
 set_memory_ro+0x89/0xd0 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:1943
 bpf_jit_binary_lock_ro include/linux/filter.h:919 [inline]
 bpf_int_jit_compile+0xc6d8/0xcd80 arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c:2478
 bpf_prog_select_runtime+0x46f/0x7c0 kernel/bpf/core.c:1977
 bpf_migrate_filter net/core/filter.c:1307 [inline]
 bpf_prepare_filter+0x1020/0x11d0 net/core/filter.c:1355
 bpf_prog_create_from_user+0x2ce/0x420 net/core/filter.c:1449
 seccomp_prepare_filter kernel/seccomp.c:669 [inline]
 seccomp_prepare_user_filter kernel/seccomp.c:706 [inline]
 seccomp_set_mode_filter kernel/seccomp.c:1834 [inline]
 do_seccomp+0x814/0x16c0 kernel/seccomp.c:1954
 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:
 ffff88802823ff80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888028240000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888028240080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                  ^
 ffff888028240100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888028240180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/28 08:39 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in quotad_error
2026/01/19 01:41 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in quotad_error
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.