KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/26 19:47
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+1ded3afdecabdd33273d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 385d, last: 5d09h
▶ ▼ Bug presence (1)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/11/06 upstream (ToT) dc77806cf3b4 C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea prio:high fs 19 syz, C error 10317 3h19m 394d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/17 19:14
linux-6.6 KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea origin:upstream 19 syz, C error 433 4d15h 384d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/27 17:30
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea origin:upstream 19 syz, C 1197 4d07h 384d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/27 17:28
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/12 00:12 13m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log
2025/08/12 00:12 12m retest repro linux-5.15.y report log

Sample crash report:
hpfs: filesystem error: invalid number of hotfixes: 2066844986, used: 2066844985; already mounted read-only
hpfs: filesystem error: improperly stopped
hpfs: filesystem error: warning: spare dnodes used, try chkdsk
hpfs: You really don't want any checks? You are crazy...
hpfs: hpfs_map_sector(): read error
hpfs: code page support is disabled
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in strcmp+0x67/0xb0 lib/string.c:400
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88806a8bbf4f by task syz.0.17/4360

CPU: 1 PID: 4360 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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
 strcmp+0x67/0xb0 lib/string.c:400
 hpfs_get_ea+0x132/0xdd0 fs/hpfs/ea.c:139
 hpfs_read_inode+0x1a3/0x1050 fs/hpfs/inode.c:63
 hpfs_fill_super+0x135a/0x1fd0 fs/hpfs/super.c:712
 mount_bdev+0x287/0x3c0 fs/super.c:1400
 legacy_get_tree+0xe6/0x180 fs/fs_context.c:611
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7fc5a1a580ca
Code: 48 c7 c2 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 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:00007ffc99ad7b68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffc99ad7bf0 RCX: 00007fc5a1a580ca
RDX: 0000200000000100 RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: 00007ffc99ad7bb0
RBP: 0000200000000100 R08: 00007ffc99ad7bf0 R09: 0000000003200041
R10: 0000000003200041 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000200000000040
R13: 00007ffc99ad7bb0 R14: 0000000000009e2a R15: 00002000000000c0
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001aa2ec0 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x6a8bb
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001ab0a08 ffffea0001aa2988 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 0x1100dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO), pid 4360, ts 85272732056, free_ts 85275038663
 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_pages_vma+0x393/0x7c0 mm/mempolicy.c:2146
 do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:3838 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:4648 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:4785 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x23be/0x4410 mm/memory.c:4883
 do_user_addr_fault+0x489/0xc80 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1355
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1443 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x60/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1496
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:606
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_list+0x119/0x820 mm/page_alloc.c:3433
 release_pages+0x186c/0x1be0 mm/swap.c:963
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:50 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:241 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:248 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x1b4/0x370 mm/mmu_gather.c:371
 unmap_region+0x344/0x3b0 mm/mmap.c:2669
 __do_munmap+0x9f8/0xdf0 mm/mmap.c:2899
 __vm_munmap+0x140/0x240 mm/mmap.c:2952
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:2978 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:2974 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x67/0x70 mm/mmap.c:2974
 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:
 ffff88806a8bbe00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88806a8bbe80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88806a8bbf00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                                              ^
 ffff88806a8bbf80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88806a8bc000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (601):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/26 16:20 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c a3e47276 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/02/14 21:40 linux-5.15.y e45d5d41c134 1e62d198 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2025/11/04 12:48 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 686bf657 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2025/07/26 20:44 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 fb8f743d .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2025/07/26 20:02 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 fb8f743d .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/08/10 18:57 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/08/10 18:57 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/08/09 00:51 linux-5.15.y aabd761612db 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/08/02 20:22 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/08/01 08:16 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/08/01 02:29 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/31 00:15 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 aaffb173 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/25 18:30 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/23 11:13 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 881ce5c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/22 22:05 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 4a865b71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/18 18:54 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 72524a66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/17 02:13 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 71b49442 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/17 02:12 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 71b49442 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/15 08:02 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 a4ed0f4f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/06 02:25 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/04 12:17 linux-5.15.y c86c4726e7f0 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/07/04 10:15 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/25 18:46 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 7ff32d8b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/25 14:46 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 cfa969bf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/22 16:49 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/22 12:43 linux-5.15.y eceeec79dbc6 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/13 01:53 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/13 01:52 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/11 18:18 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 d93a6ab6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/11 14:32 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 d93a6ab6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/11 06:32 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 b754d2d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/10 05:45 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 34dab4be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/08 21:33 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 656e94c6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/07 00:34 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/03 11:48 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 234057e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/06/03 06:12 linux-5.15.y dc027a595035 3c0d2131 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/31 03:09 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/26 08:25 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c a3e47276 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/25 19:19 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/25 12:32 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/25 07:42 linux-5.15.y 241d66fa280c c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/22 07:47 linux-5.15.y 93741761e5e3 70ae9b03 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/17 03:51 linux-5.15.y 93741761e5e3 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/11 06:02 linux-5.15.y de8dfb3f0278 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/10 19:01 linux-5.15.y de8dfb3f0278 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/07 23:57 linux-5.15.y ef251c45f1cd cbf9e0fc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/05/04 14:25 linux-5.15.y ef251c45f1cd 85f1bcf2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2025/07/28 09:09 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2025/07/26 19:46 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in hpfs_get_ea
2026/04/15 08:34 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b e2e976a8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in hpfs_get_ea
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.