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KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/09 15:24
Bug presence: origin:lts
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Reported-by: syzbot+89297222eb000a6d3be5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 296d, last: 2d07h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/04/10 lts (merge base) cf30300a216a C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/04/24 upstream (ToT) a79be02bba5c C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (12)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2) 19 C 10 25d 376d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/01/19 16:52
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (3) ext4 19 C inconclusive done 6 329d 481d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/16 07:57
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry 19 C inconclusive 6 1955d 2059d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/06/12 02:23
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2) ext4 19 C error 1 616d 626d 0/29 closed as dup on 2024/06/26 08:39
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry origin:upstream 19 C error 10 29d 607d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/06/03 01:15
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry missing-backport origin:upstream 19 C error 4 458d 581d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/07 07:57
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry ext4 19 C 8 2859d 2862d 22/29 closed as dup on 2018/03/31 22:38
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry 19 C error 2 512d 631d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/26 18:56
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry missing-backport origin:upstream 19 C error 4 505d 629d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/21 14:06
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry 19 15 570d 607d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/17 20:54
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry (2) origin:lts 19 C error 4 6d08h 300d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/04/05 13:22
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry ext4 19 C error 5 13d 214d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/06/30 17:28
Last patch testing requests (7)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/01/08 15:12 9m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/12/25 14:01 6m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/12/10 06:54 18m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/12/10 06:54 16m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/10/25 03:38 18m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/10/10 05:23 5m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/10/10 05:23 5m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
Fix bisection attempts (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/11/24 21:46 1h11m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2025/05/27 07:11 1h38m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
EXT4-fs (loop2): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: errors=remount-ro,max_dir_size_kb=0x0000000000000002,. Quota mode: writeback.
ext4 filesystem being mounted at /2/file0 supports timestamps until 2038-01-19 (0x7fffffff)
EXT4-fs warning (device loop2): dx_probe:833: inode #2: comm syz.2.19: Unrecognised inode hash code 20
EXT4-fs warning (device loop2): dx_probe:966: inode #2: comm syz.2.19: Corrupt directory, running e2fsck is recommended
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x7c2/0x970 fs/ext4/dir.c:85
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88811e242003 by task syz.2.19/379

CPU: 1 PID: 379 Comm: syz.2.19 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:427 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xf1/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:444
 __asan_report_load2_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:307
 __ext4_check_dir_entry+0x7c2/0x970 fs/ext4/dir.c:85
 ext4_readdir+0x123c/0x3b20 fs/ext4/dir.c:261
 iterate_dir+0x260/0x600 fs/readdir.c:-1
 __do_sys_getdents64 fs/readdir.c:369 [inline]
 __se_sys_getdents64+0xf2/0x250 fs/readdir.c:354
 __x64_sys_getdents64+0x7b/0x90 fs/readdir.c:354
 x64_sys_call+0x592/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:218
 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: 0033:0x7ff39cfd9eb9
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:00007ffe7d3b37d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000d9
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff39d254fa0 RCX: 00007ff39cfd9eb9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007ff39d047c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff39d254fac R14: 00007ff39d254fa0 R15: 00007ff39d254fa0
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004789080 refcount:0 mapcount:-128 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x11e242
flags: 0x4000000000000000(zone=1)
raw: 4000000000000000 ffffea0004789e08 ffffea0004787208 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 00000000ffffff7f 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x500cc2(GFP_HIGHUSER|__GFP_ACCOUNT), pid 226, ts 15110834679, free_ts 15110945587
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x192/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2605
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2611
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2d3a/0x2dc0 mm/page_alloc.c:4485
 __alloc_pages+0x1a2/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:5808
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:595 [inline]
 alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:609 [inline]
 alloc_pages include/linux/gfp.h:622 [inline]
 pipe_write+0x56e/0x18f0 fs/pipe.c:500
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2212 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x835/0xfd0 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x149/0x250 fs/read_write.c:647
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:659 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:656 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:656
 x64_sys_call+0x8ef/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 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
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1472 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1544 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x542/0x550 mm/page_alloc.c:3534
 free_unref_page+0xae/0x540 mm/page_alloc.c:3616
 __put_single_page mm/swap.c:98 [inline]
 __put_page+0xad/0xe0 mm/swap.c:129
 put_page include/linux/mm.h:1306 [inline]
 anon_pipe_buf_release+0x183/0x200 fs/pipe.c:137
 pipe_buf_release include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h:219 [inline]
 pipe_read+0x53b/0x1010 fs/pipe.c:323
 call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2206 [inline]
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:404 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x6c9/0xc40 fs/read_write.c:485
 ksys_read+0x149/0x250 fs/read_write.c:623
 __do_sys_read fs/read_write.c:633 [inline]
 __se_sys_read fs/read_write.c:631 [inline]
 __x64_sys_read+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:631
 x64_sys_call+0x96d/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:1
 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:
 ffff88811e241f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88811e241f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88811e242000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                   ^
 ffff88811e242080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88811e242100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================
EXT4-fs error (device loop2): ext4_readdir:263: inode #2: block 3: comm syz.2.19: path /2/file0: bad entry in directory: directory entry overrun - offset=2047, inode=741952768, rec_len=29988, size=2048 fake=0
EXT4-fs (loop2): Remounting filesystem read-only

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/29 03:33 android13-5.15-lts 7e1070528954 0adc945e .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2026/01/20 13:09 android13-5.15-lts 630deefd7859 06648d9c .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/07/16 01:21 android13-5.15-lts 6b619c45dff5 03fcfc4b .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/07/15 09:14 android13-5.15-lts eabc268e4fb2 03fcfc4b .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/06/19 11:37 android13-5.15-lts e678c93d43cc ed3e87f7 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (clean fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/04/09 16:51 android13-5.15-lts 760764029c6d 47d015b1 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
2025/04/09 15:23 android13-5.15-lts 760764029c6d 47d015b1 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] [mounted in repro (corrupt fs)] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ext4_check_dir_entry
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.