KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/31 10:27
Reported-by: syzbot+e6aecaf4c47dc4f22a07@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d02h, last: 1d01h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio 19 22 150d 393d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/12 16:28
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio prio:high gfs2 19 syz, C error 174 147d 872d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/11 16:17
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio 19 24 184d 472d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/08 21:36

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in list_empty include/linux/list.h:373 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in gfs2_discard fs/gfs2/aops.c:622 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in gfs2_invalidate_folio+0x42f/0xa30 fs/gfs2/aops.c:660
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802ebf4088 by task syz-executor/5775

CPU: 0 PID: 5775 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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
 list_empty include/linux/list.h:373 [inline]
 gfs2_discard fs/gfs2/aops.c:622 [inline]
 gfs2_invalidate_folio+0x42f/0xa30 fs/gfs2/aops.c:660
 folio_invalidate mm/truncate.c:158 [inline]
 truncate_cleanup_folio+0x21f/0x5e0 mm/truncate.c:178
 truncate_inode_pages_range+0x275/0xea0 mm/truncate.c:392
 gfs2_evict_inode+0x42e/0x13c0 fs/gfs2/super.c:1536
 evict+0x4b7/0x8a0 fs/inode.c:705
 gfs2_evict_inodes fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1770 [inline]
 gfs2_kill_sb+0x1fb/0x2e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1796
 deactivate_locked_super+0x97/0x100 fs/super.c:481
 cleanup_mnt+0x3d7/0x460 fs/namespace.c:1259
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:245
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0x986/0x2530 kernel/exit.c:890
 do_group_exit+0x22d/0x2f0 kernel/exit.c:1032
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1043 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1041 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1041
 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: 0033:0x7f162a79e159
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f162a79e12f.
RSP: 002b:00007fffc0a35748 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000e7
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f162a834499 RCX: 00007f162a79e159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000000000000005 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f162a834474
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fffc0a369a0
R13: 00007f162a834474 R14: 000000000001b4a5 R15: 00007fffc0a369e0
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6157:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:329
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6a/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:770
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x17e/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:3519
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:711 [inline]
 gfs2_alloc_bufdata fs/gfs2/trans.c:168 [inline]
 gfs2_trans_add_data+0x1fb/0x5f0 fs/gfs2/trans.c:209
 gfs2_trans_add_databufs+0x15a/0x1c0 fs/gfs2/aops.c:57
 gfs2_iomap_put_folio+0x1be/0x410 fs/gfs2/bmap.c:994
 iomap_write_end+0x631/0xbc0 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:897
 iomap_write_iter fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:963 [inline]
 iomap_file_buffered_write+0x751/0xda0 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c:1008
 gfs2_file_buffered_write+0x4c0/0x820 fs/gfs2/file.c:1060
 gfs2_file_write_iter+0x43d/0xe90 fs/gfs2/file.c:1158
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:699 [inline]
 __do_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:709 [inline]
 __se_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:706 [inline]
 __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x198/0x220 fs/read_write.c:706
 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 6157:
 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+0xf8/0x290 mm/slub.c:3852
 trans_drain fs/gfs2/log.c:1023 [inline]
 __gfs2_log_flush+0x18fd/0x24d0 fs/gfs2/log.c:1162
 gfs2_log_flush+0x34/0x50 fs/gfs2/log.c:1180
 gfs2_jdata_writepages+0xf9/0x150 fs/gfs2/aops.c:398
 do_writepages+0x351/0x590 mm/page-writeback.c:2575
 filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x122/0x180 mm/filemap.c:390
 __filemap_fdatawrite_range mm/filemap.c:423 [inline]
 filemap_fdatawrite_range+0xf7/0x160 mm/filemap.c:441
 gfs2_fsync+0xde/0x330 fs/gfs2/file.c:751
 generic_write_sync include/linux/fs.h:2669 [inline]
 gfs2_file_write_iter+0xb40/0xe90 fs/gfs2/file.c:1160
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:699 [inline]
 __do_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:709 [inline]
 __se_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:706 [inline]
 __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x198/0x220 fs/read_write.c:706
 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 ffff88802ebf4070
 which belongs to the cache gfs2_bufdata of size 80
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 freed 80-byte region [ffff88802ebf4070, ffff88802ebf40c0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000bafd00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2ebf4
flags: 0xfff00000000800(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000800 ffff888143a94dc0 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000240024 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x112c40(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 6157, tgid 6127 (syz.2.102), ts 111539474121, free_ts 111208078864
 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]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x109/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:3519
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:711 [inline]
 gfs2_alloc_bufdata fs/gfs2/trans.c:168 [inline]
 gfs2_trans_add_meta+0x31b/0xc60 fs/gfs2/trans.c:251
 init_dinode+0x92/0xa50 fs/gfs2/inode.c:500
 gfs2_create_inode+0x1049/0x1540 fs/gfs2/inode.c:776
 gfs2_atomic_open+0xd2/0x220 fs/gfs2/inode.c:1314
 atomic_open fs/namei.c:3402 [inline]
 lookup_open fs/namei.c:3510 [inline]
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3607 [inline]
 path_openat+0xf84/0x3270 fs/namei.c:3841
 do_filp_open+0x1f2/0x430 fs/namei.c:3871
 do_sys_openat2+0x134/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1422
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1437 [inline]
 __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1515 [inline]
 __se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1509 [inline]
 __x64_sys_creat+0x90/0xb0 fs/open.c:1509
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
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_list+0xbe/0x860 mm/page_alloc.c:2505
 release_pages+0x208a/0x2300 mm/swap.c:1022
 __folio_batch_release+0x71/0xe0 mm/swap.c:1042
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:83 [inline]
 truncate_inode_pages_range+0x381/0xea0 mm/truncate.c:396
 kill_bdev block/bdev.c:76 [inline]
 blkdev_flush_mapping+0x132/0x290 block/bdev.c:645
 blkdev_put_whole block/bdev.c:676 [inline]
 blkdev_put+0x49a/0x7a0 block/bdev.c:954
 blkdev_release+0x84/0x90 block/fops.c:604
 __fput+0x221/0x940 fs/file_table.c:418
 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1574 [inline]
 __se_sys_close+0x15c/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1559
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802ebf3f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802ebf4000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb
>ffff88802ebf4080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88802ebf4100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802ebf4180: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/31 11:12 linux-6.6.y a4a971135a2f 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio
2026/08/31 11:06 linux-6.6.y a4a971135a2f 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio
2026/08/31 10:55 linux-6.6.y a4a971135a2f 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio
2026/08/31 10:32 linux-6.6.y a4a971135a2f 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio
2026/08/31 10:26 linux-6.6.y a4a971135a2f 2f52988a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in gfs2_invalidate_folio
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.