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KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds Read in xfs_buf_lock

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/01 05:42
Reported-by: syzbot+80c9974e520006157dec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d14h, last: 2d14h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in xfs_buf_lock (2) 17 1 823d 823d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/11 11:29
linux-6.6 KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in xfs_buf_lock 17 1 109d 109d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/25 03:43
upstream KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in xfs_buf_lock xfs 17 C error unreliable 866 378d 1149d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/01 11:07
linux-6.1 KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in xfs_buf_lock 17 1 951d 951d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/06 04:59

Sample crash report:
syz.3.647 (6511): drop_caches: 2
syz.3.647 (6511): drop_caches: 2
syz.3.647 (6511): drop_caches: 2
syz.3.647 (6511): drop_caches: 2
syz.3.647 (6511): drop_caches: 2
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in xfs_buf_lock+0x2a8/0x560 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c:1118
Read of size 4 at addr ffffc900037f795c by task syz.3.647/6511

CPU: 1 PID: 6511 Comm: syz.3.647 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 xfs_buf_lock+0x2a8/0x560 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c:1118
 xfs_buf_delwri_submit_buffers+0x161/0xa30 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c:2201
 xfs_buf_delwri_submit+0xc1/0x250 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c:2279
 xfs_qm_shrink_scan+0x1a3/0x390 fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c:522
 do_shrink_slab+0x504/0xdb0 mm/vmscan.c:853
 shrink_slab+0x1dd/0x770 mm/vmscan.c:1013
 drop_slab_node mm/vmscan.c:1048 [inline]
 drop_slab+0x164/0x290 mm/vmscan.c:1058
 drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0xbe/0x160 fs/drop_caches.c:66
 proc_sys_call_handler+0x45e/0x6d0 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:602
 do_iter_readv_writev fs/read_write.c:-1 [inline]
 do_iter_write+0x642/0xb10 fs/read_write.c:861
 iter_file_splice_write+0x699/0xcc0 fs/splice.c:685
 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:763 [inline]
 direct_splice_actor+0xe1/0x130 fs/splice.c:950
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x48b/0xb90 fs/splice.c:896
 do_splice_direct+0x1ce/0x2f0 fs/splice.c:1002
 do_sendfile+0x5f3/0xea0 fs/read_write.c:1255
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1323 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64+0x141/0x1a0 fs/read_write.c:1309
 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: 0033:0x7f2bdb39aeb9
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:00007f2bdc220028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000028
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2bdb615fa0 RCX: 00007f2bdb39aeb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f2bdb408c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000020fffe82 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2bdb616038 R14: 00007f2bdb615fa0 R15: 00007ffc7c041628
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to a 8-page vmalloc region starting at 0xffffc900037f0000 allocated at copy_process+0x5fa/0x4030 kernel/fork.c:2186
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000bca2c0 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2f28b
memcg:ffff888078823482
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff ffff888078823482
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x102dc2(GFP_HIGHUSER|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_ZERO), pid 6498, tgid 6498 (syz.4.644), ts 212166810432, free_ts 212076004432
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2532
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2539 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a1e/0x1ab0 mm/page_alloc.c:4328
 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5614
 vm_area_alloc_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3002 [inline]
 __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:3071 [inline]
 __vmalloc_node_range+0x944/0x13b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3243
 alloc_thread_stack_node kernel/fork.c:312 [inline]
 dup_task_struct+0x3d3/0x6b0 kernel/fork.c:994
 copy_process+0x5fa/0x4030 kernel/fork.c:2186
 kernel_clone+0x24b/0x900 kernel/fork.c:2762
 __do_sys_clone3 kernel/fork.c:3061 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone3+0x32d/0x3f0 kernel/fork.c:3045
 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
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1459 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1509 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3384
 free_unref_page_list+0xbb/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3525
 release_pages+0x1fa6/0x2220 mm/swap.c:1035
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:59 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:254 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu+0x105/0x220 mm/mmu_gather.c:261
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xbd/0x1c0 mm/mmu_gather.c:361
 exit_mmap+0x384/0x960 mm/mmap.c:3262
 __mmput+0x118/0x3c0 kernel/fork.c:1205
 exit_mm+0x1fe/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:565
 do_exit+0x905/0x2480 kernel/exit.c:867
 do_group_exit+0x217/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1022
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1033 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1031 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3b/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1031
 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:
 ffffc900037f7800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 f8 f8 f8 f8
 ffffc900037f7880: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8
>ffffc900037f7900: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f3 f3 f3 f3
                                                    ^
 ffffc900037f7980: f3 f3 f3 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffffc900037f7a00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 f3 f3
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/01 05:42 linux-6.1.y cd9b81672742 6b8752f2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds Read in xfs_buf_lock
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.