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KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/02 05:33
Reported-by: syzbot+29fcdc1e1210dbbec4f5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 405d, last: 1d01h
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread origin:lts 12 C error 5 30d 300d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/15 15:45
android-5-15 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread origin:lts 12 C error 5 24d 300d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/15 08:24
upstream KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread f2fs 22 C done 5 609d 656d 28/29 fixed on 2024/10/22 11:56
linux-6.1 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread origin:lts-only 12 C inconclusive 13 1d03h 499d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/12/29 01:22
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/21 00:05 14m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/04/21 00:05 16m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/04/21 00:05 11m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/04/21 00:05 12m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2026/02/04 20:54 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
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2025/12/21 11:11 14m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
2025/11/21 08:52 5m retest repro android13-5.10-lts report log
Fix bisection attempts (6)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/05 22:16 1h35m bisect fix android13-5.10-lts OK (0) job log log
2026/03/06 21:12 51m bisect fix android13-5.10-lts OK (0) job log log
2026/01/21 19:25 1h20m bisect fix android13-5.10-lts OK (0) job log log
2025/08/03 02:09 1h57m bisect fix android13-5.10-lts OK (0) job log log
2025/06/19 08:35 1h29m bisect fix android13-5.10-lts OK (0) job log log
2025/05/19 11:17 1h09m bisect fix android13-5.10-lts OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:142 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:193 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in get_task_struct include/linux/sched/task.h:108 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in kthread_stop+0x3a/0x3e0 kernel/kthread.c:640
Write of size 4 at addr 0000000000000020 by task syz.0.63/783

CPU: 1 PID: 783 Comm: syz.0.63 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x1a7/0x208 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:439 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xd8/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x249/0x2a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/shadow.c:37
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:142 [inline]
 __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:193 [inline]
 __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
 refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
 get_task_struct include/linux/sched/task.h:108 [inline]
 kthread_stop+0x3a/0x3e0 kernel/kthread.c:640
 f2fs_stop_gc_thread+0x65/0xb0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:199
 f2fs_ioc_shutdown fs/f2fs/file.c:2415 [inline]
 __f2fs_ioctl+0x70d6/0xcc90 fs/f2fs/file.c:4384
 f2fs_ioctl+0x149/0x240 fs/f2fs/file.c:4469
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:48 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:753 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x121/0x1a0 fs/ioctl.c:739
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0x90 fs/ioctl.c:739
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7fb57db72dd9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fb57d9b4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb57ddec090 RCX: 00007fb57db72dd9
RDX: 0000200000000080 RSI: 000000008004587d RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fb57dc08d69 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb57ddec128 R14: 00007fb57ddec090 R15: 00007ffd405a6cc8
==================================================================
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 129ed6067 P4D 129ed6067 PUD 0 
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 0 PID: 783 Comm: syz.0.63 Tainted: G    B             syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_fetch_add arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:184 [inline]
RIP: 0010:atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:143 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:193 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
RIP: 0010:refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
RIP: 0010:get_task_struct include/linux/sched/task.h:108 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kthread_stop+0x40/0x3e0 kernel/kthread.c:640
Code: 00 fc ff df e8 01 44 22 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 f7 43 22 00 4c 8d 73 20 4c 89 f7 be 04 00 00 00 e8 46 c8 5c 00 41 bf 01 00 00 00 <f0> 44 0f c1 7b 20 31 ff 44 89 fe e8 80 47 22 00 45 85 ff 0f 84 32
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e17898 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff88810e8a9300 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000286
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffc90000e178c0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff0dcf848 R12: 1ffff110259ab925
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000020 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007fb57d9b46c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000012ecc7000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 f2fs_stop_gc_thread+0x65/0xb0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:199
 f2fs_ioc_shutdown fs/f2fs/file.c:2415 [inline]
 __f2fs_ioctl+0x70d6/0xcc90 fs/f2fs/file.c:4384
 f2fs_ioctl+0x149/0x240 fs/f2fs/file.c:4469
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:48 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:753 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x121/0x1a0 fs/ioctl.c:739
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0x90 fs/ioctl.c:739
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7fb57db72dd9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fb57d9b4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb57ddec090 RCX: 00007fb57db72dd9
RDX: 0000200000000080 RSI: 000000008004587d RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fb57dc08d69 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb57ddec128 R14: 00007fb57ddec090 R15: 00007ffd405a6cc8
Modules linked in:
CR2: 0000000000000020
---[ end trace 61d26f71f819323f ]---
RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_fetch_add arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:184 [inline]
RIP: 0010:atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:143 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:193 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]
RIP: 0010:refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]
RIP: 0010:get_task_struct include/linux/sched/task.h:108 [inline]
RIP: 0010:kthread_stop+0x40/0x3e0 kernel/kthread.c:640
Code: 00 fc ff df e8 01 44 22 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 f7 43 22 00 4c 8d 73 20 4c 89 f7 be 04 00 00 00 e8 46 c8 5c 00 41 bf 01 00 00 00 <f0> 44 0f c1 7b 20 31 ff 44 89 fe e8 80 47 22 00 45 85 ff 0f 84 32
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e17898 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff88810e8a9300 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000286
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffffc90000e178c0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff0dcf848 R12: 1ffff110259ab925
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000020 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007fb57d9b46c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000012ecc7000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	00 fc                	add    %bh,%ah
   2:	ff                   	lcall  (bad)
   3:	df e8                	fucomip %st(0),%st
   5:	01 44 22 00          	add    %eax,0x0(%rdx,%riz,1)
   9:	0f 1f 44 00 00       	nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
   e:	e8 f7 43 22 00       	call   0x22440a
  13:	4c 8d 73 20          	lea    0x20(%rbx),%r14
  17:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
  1a:	be 04 00 00 00       	mov    $0x4,%esi
  1f:	e8 46 c8 5c 00       	call   0x5cc86a
  24:	41 bf 01 00 00 00    	mov    $0x1,%r15d
* 2a:	f0 44 0f c1 7b 20    	lock xadd %r15d,0x20(%rbx) <-- trapping instruction
  30:	31 ff                	xor    %edi,%edi
  32:	44 89 fe             	mov    %r15d,%esi
  35:	e8 80 47 22 00       	call   0x2247ba
  3a:	45 85 ff             	test   %r15d,%r15d
  3d:	0f                   	.byte 0xf
  3e:	84 32                	test   %dh,(%rdx)

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/11 06:25 android13-5.10-lts 5feb5545d40a 29233ece .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread
2025/04/02 20:28 android13-5.10-lts 094fc3778d6b c799dfdd .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread
2025/04/02 09:59 android13-5.10-lts 094fc3778d6b c799dfdd .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread
2025/04/02 05:23 android13-5.10-lts 094fc3778d6b b8645499 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread
2025/04/02 23:07 android13-5.10-lts 094fc3778d6b c799dfdd .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread
2025/04/02 01:54 android13-5.10-lts 094fc3778d6b b8645499 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in f2fs_stop_gc_thread
2025/10/29 12:52 android13-5.10-lts 2ece552169c2 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in f2fs_stop_gc_thread
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.