KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/31 22:12
Reported-by: syzbot+0dd83d00e975fdccfacf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 18d, last: 16d
Similar bugs (9)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock origin:upstream 19 syz, C error 1 86d 1185d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/05/21 13:36
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock ext4 19 syz, C error done 7 963d 1240d 25/29 fixed on 2024/02/03 12:44
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock 19 syz error 1 707d 840d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/28 07:38
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock (2) 19 syz, C 7 11d 57d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/22 03:50
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock origin:upstream missing-backport 19 syz, C done 2 644d 840d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/20 23:05
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock missing-backport origin:upstream 19 syz, C error 1 656d 812d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/08 19:49
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock (2) 19 syz, C 8 27d 58d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/21 08:24
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock origin:upstream 19 syz, C error 2 547d 1221d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2023/04/15 09:27
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock 19 syz, C 1 674d 840d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/03 02:23

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_read_inline_data fs/ext4/inline.c:210 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock+0x30e/0x9e0 fs/ext4/inline.c:1234
Read of size 68 at addr ffff88812572fc80 by task syz-executor263/306

CPU: 0 PID: 306 Comm: syz-executor263 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x71/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:316
 print_report+0x4a/0x60 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x122/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x249/0x2a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 memcpy+0x2d/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:65
 ext4_read_inline_data fs/ext4/inline.c:210 [inline]
 ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock+0x30e/0x9e0 fs/ext4/inline.c:1234
 ext4_try_add_inline_entry+0x732/0xa60 fs/ext4/inline.c:1360
 ext4_add_entry+0x509/0xda0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2458
 ext4_mkdir+0x520/0xc90 fs/ext4/namei.c:3081
 vfs_mkdir+0x39c/0x580 fs/namei.c:4113
 do_mkdirat+0x174/0x4d0 fs/namei.c:4138
 __do_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4158 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:4156 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdir+0x6e/0x80 fs/namei.c:4156
 x64_sys_call+0x966/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:84
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f29db244de7
Code: 1f 40 00 48 89 f2 b9 00 01 00 00 48 89 fe bf 9c ff ff ff e9 cb ba 01 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 b8 53 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 c7 c2 d8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8
RSP: 002b:00007ffeb1b82758 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000053
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f29db244de7
RDX: 000000000399446c RSI: 00000000000001ff RDI: 0000200000000080
RBP: 0000200000000140 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000080
R13: 00007ffeb1b827f0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea000495cbc0 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x12572f
flags: 0x4000000000000000(zone=1)
raw: 4000000000000000 ffffea00049555c8 ffffea000495cb88 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x8140dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_CMA), pid 298, tgid 298 (sshd-session), ts 19792339377, free_ts 19801714832
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f5/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:2672
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2679
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2ca9/0x2d20 mm/page_alloc.c:4586
 __alloc_pages+0x1fa/0x610 mm/page_alloc.c:5930
 __folio_alloc+0x12/0x40 mm/page_alloc.c:5963
 __folio_alloc_node include/linux/gfp.h:245 [inline]
 folio_alloc include/linux/gfp.h:274 [inline]
 alloc_page_vma include/linux/gfp.h:283 [inline]
 do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:4286 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:5181 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:5325 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1989/0x26b0 mm/memory.c:5465
 do_user_addr_fault+0x900/0x1030 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1321
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1464 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x51/0xb0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1517
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:608
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1580 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1654 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x80c/0x820 mm/page_alloc.c:3621
 free_unref_page_list+0x117/0x8d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3772
 release_pages+0xc7e/0xce0 mm/swap.c:1053
 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x86/0xa0 mm/swap_state.c:316
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:59 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:254 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:261 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x1b2/0x380 mm/mmu_gather.c:361
 unmap_region+0x2b7/0x320 mm/mmap.c:2419
 do_mas_align_munmap+0xbf3/0x1330 mm/mmap.c:2693
 do_mas_munmap+0x23d/0x2b0 mm/mmap.c:2751
 __vm_munmap+0x1af/0x310 mm/mmap.c:3050
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:3076 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:3072 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x6b/0x80 mm/mmap.c:3072
 x64_sys_call+0x8a/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:12
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88812572fb80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88812572fc00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88812572fc80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                   ^
 ffff88812572fd00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88812572fd80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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EXT4-fs error (device loop0): ext4_check_all_de:666: inode #12: block 7: comm syz-executor263: bad entry in directory: directory entry overrun - offset=0, inode=901261600, rec_len=7976, size=124 fake=0
EXT4-fs (loop0): Remounting filesystem read-only

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/02 09:45 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 e611ffe1 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (clean fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock
2026/08/02 08:52 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 e611ffe1 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (clean fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock
2026/08/01 00:56 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 7664cf44 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (clean fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock
2026/07/31 22:40 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 7664cf44 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (clean fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock
2026/07/31 22:11 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 7664cf44 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (clean fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock
2026/08/02 09:22 android14-6.1 92668decd5e0 e611ffe1 .config strace log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro #1 (clean fs)] [mounted in repro #2 (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_convert_inline_data_nolock
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.