KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/10/23 22:49
Subsystems: jffs2
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+b7c6bb9c09755d6af6ab@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d07h, last: now
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
339c5b01 moderation 🏃 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread 2026/10/24 06:16 2026/10/24 06:16 1d9ca40b
60957a95 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread 2026/10/22 02:11 2026/10/22 02:11 2026/10/22 05:03 42e06812
a30ab438 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread 2026/10/21 03:31 2026/10/21 03:31 2026/10/21 04:12 61c200c7
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread 19 1 3d10h 3d10h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/10/20 20:28
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/10/22 05:20 20m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git a804c5742bff224d4cb4d25dd383554d598be32b report job log log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt_spin_lock+0x83/0x400 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:56
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88804f2b02c0 by task jffs2_gcd_mtd0/12364

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12364 Comm: jffs2_gcd_mtd0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/07/2026
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
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:585
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x7d/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5916
 rt_spin_lock+0x83/0x400 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:56
 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:45 [inline]
 jffs2_garbage_collect_thread+0x1dc/0x720 fs/jffs2/background.c:94
 kthread+0x38b/0x470 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
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 12363:
 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+0x3d5/0x680 mm/slub.c:5563
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 jffs2_init_fs_context+0x4f/0xc0 fs/jffs2/super.c:314
 alloc_fs_context+0x9a3/0xd00 fs/fs_context.c:295
 do_new_mount+0x177/0xb00 fs/namespace.c:3966
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4350 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4566 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4543
 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 10613:
 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+0x1c5/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6802
 deactivate_locked_super+0xbe/0x110 fs/super.c:586
 cleanup_mnt+0x204/0x2a0 fs/namespace.c:1396
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:70 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x204/0x770 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:343 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x328/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88804f2b0000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 704 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff88804f2b0000, ffff88804f2b1000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x4f2b0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff44140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff44140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 00000007f6daf3f9 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 0xd2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 157, tgid 157 (kworker/u8:6), ts 576233263105
 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+0x2591/0x2600 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x230/0x5c0 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+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7418
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x339/0x690 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_node_track_caller_noprof+0x61e/0x7b0 mm/slub.c:5545
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:637 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x2c1/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:715
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:744 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:801 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x2b1/0xcb0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:847
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x38b/0x470 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
page last free pid 5567 tgid 5567 ts 576130778544 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xf8e/0x1070 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
 __slab_free+0x250/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:5823
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:361
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x353/0x680 mm/slub.c:5559
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 poll_get_entry fs/select.c:168 [inline]
 __pollwait+0x27f/0x430 fs/select.c:223
 poll_wait include/linux/poll.h:45 [inline]
 pipe_poll+0x186/0x5a0 fs/pipe.c:759
 vfs_poll include/linux/poll.h:82 [inline]
 select_poll_one fs/select.c:480 [inline]
 do_select+0x1016/0x1640 fs/select.c:536
 core_sys_select+0x86f/0xb40 fs/select.c:677
 do_pselect fs/select.c:770 [inline]
 __do_sys_pselect6 fs/select.c:809 [inline]
 __se_sys_pselect6+0x267/0x320 fs/select.c:800
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88804f2b0180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88804f2b0200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88804f2b0280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                           ^
 ffff88804f2b0300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88804f2b0380: 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
2026/10/20 15:45 upstream f47d223627f8 df8746fb .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread
2026/10/19 22:42 upstream c03c1a14507d 72cdc28d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread
2026/10/24 06:31 upstream 734bef548a96 1d9ca40b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-fs KASAN: use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_thread
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.