KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in add_root_to_dirty_list

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/10/07 01:52
Subsystems: btrfs
Labels: prio:normal actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+947286c775f432b073a8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d16h, last: 6h24m
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91e336ae moderation Actionable: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in add_root_to_dirty_list 2026/10/07 01:41 2026/10/07 01:41 2026/10/07 01:51 f7710056
d5a57589 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in add_root_to_dirty_list 2026/10/04 01:06 2026/10/04 01:06 2026/10/04 01:59 57bbd979
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Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix use-after-free on quota enable allocation failure 5 (5) 2026/10/07 20:58
[PATCH v2] btrfs: fix use-after-free on quota enable allocation failure 1 (1) 2026/10/07 15:56
[PATCH] btrfs: fix use-after-free on quota enable allocation failure 2 (2) 2026/10/07 09:17
[syzbot] [btrfs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in add_root_to_dirty_list 0 (1) 2026/10/07 01:52

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __list_add_valid_or_report+0x6a/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:32
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888013638520 by task syz.0.0/5345

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5345 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __list_add_valid_or_report+0x6a/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:32
 __list_add_valid include/linux/list.h:104 [inline]
 __list_add include/linux/list.h:169 [inline]
 list_add_tail include/linux/list.h:206 [inline]
 list_move_tail include/linux/list.h:357 [inline]
 add_root_to_dirty_list+0x2d5/0x470 fs/btrfs/ctree.c:229
 btrfs_force_cow_block+0xf09/0x1bf0 fs/btrfs/ctree.c:553
 btrfs_cow_block+0x3f1/0xaf0 fs/btrfs/ctree.c:696
 btrfs_search_slot+0xd70/0x2d20 fs/btrfs/ctree.c:-1
 btrfs_insert_empty_items+0xa3/0x1a0 fs/btrfs/ctree.c:4310
 btrfs_insert_empty_item fs/btrfs/ctree.h:670 [inline]
 alloc_reserved_tree_block fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:5118 [inline]
 run_delayed_tree_ref fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:1815 [inline]
 run_one_delayed_ref fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:1851 [inline]
 btrfs_run_delayed_refs_for_head fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2058 [inline]
 __btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0x1574/0x43b0 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2134
 btrfs_run_delayed_refs+0xdc/0x2a0 fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c:2246
 btrfs_commit_transaction+0x28a/0x3170 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:2268
 sync_filesystem+0x1d2/0x240 fs/sync.c:66
 btrfs_reconfigure+0x2dc/0x2100 fs/btrfs/super.c:1511
 reconfigure_super+0x232/0x8f0 fs/super.c:1128
 do_remount fs/namespace.c:3410 [inline]
 path_mount+0xd4e/0x1050 fs/namespace.c:4160
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4374
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe99a79e199
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:00007fe99b65dfe8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe99aa26360 RCX: 00007fe99a79e199
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00002000000002c0 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007fe99a835888 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000c22 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe99aa263f8 R14: 00007fe99aa26360 R15: 00007ffe69cea158
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5326:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:409 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:426
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x321/0x600 mm/slub.c:5563
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 btrfs_alloc_root+0x75/0x840 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:638
 btrfs_create_tree+0xa8/0x5c0 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:832
 btrfs_quota_enable+0x3d6/0x1e20 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:1074
 btrfs_ioctl_quota_ctl+0x186/0x1f0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3581
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5326:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:264 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:296
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6509 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x650 mm/slub.c:6802
 btrfs_quota_enable+0x1208/0x1e20 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:1292
 btrfs_ioctl_quota_ctl+0x186/0x1f0 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:3581
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888013638000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 1312 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff888013638000, ffff888013639000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x13638
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c042140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c042140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5330, tgid 5330 (udevadm), ts 103389149174
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2209/0x2280 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x217/0x5a0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7418
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2c8/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x47b/0x720 mm/slub.c:5439
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xef/0x640 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x283/0x560 security/tomoyo/file.c:827
 security_inode_getattr+0x12b/0x310 security/security.c:1895
 vfs_getattr+0x23/0x70 fs/stat.c:259
 vfs_statx_path+0x2b/0x230 fs/stat.c:299
 vfs_statx+0x12e/0x200 fs/stat.c:356
 vfs_fstatat+0x11b/0x170 fs/stat.c:373
 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:538 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:532 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x151/0x200 fs/stat.c:532
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
page last free pid 80 tgid 80 ts 98261219124 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xdc2/0x14e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3022
 shrink_folio_list+0x2be2/0x5250 mm/vmscan.c:1511
 evict_folios+0x3055/0x3fb0 mm/vmscan.c:4910
 try_to_shrink_lruvec+0xe3b/0x1340 mm/vmscan.c:5076
 shrink_one+0x233/0x730 mm/vmscan.c:5117
 shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:5180 [inline]
 lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:5258 [inline]
 shrink_node+0x35d0/0x3e30 mm/vmscan.c:6247
 kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:7101 [inline]
 balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:7279 [inline]
 kswapd+0x185e/0x32c0 mm/vmscan.c:7555
 kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888013638400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888013638480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888013638500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                               ^
 ffff888013638580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888013638600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/08 11:02 upstream 7b63ef2d55f2 4f6a9fcf .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in add_root_to_dirty_list
2026/10/03 01:02 upstream 5e0f8396d480 57bbd979 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in add_root_to_dirty_list
2026/10/03 01:00 upstream 5e0f8396d480 57bbd979 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in add_root_to_dirty_list
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.