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

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/09/17 05:53
Subsystems: ecryptfs
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+baa24e4b7e349e388442@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 51d, last: 15h14m
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429719d8 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat 2026/09/16 00:43 2026/09/16 00:43 2026/09/16 01:11 2daa4bb5
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[syzbot] Monthly ecryptfs report (Oct 2026) 0 (1) 2026/10/06 12:33
[PATCH] ecryptfs: reject destroy mount crypt stat if sb's active refer is 1 1 (1) 2026/09/18 00:35
[syzbot] [ecryptfs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat 1 (2) 2026/09/17 09:01
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Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/10/26 16:51 13m retest repro upstream report job log log
2026/09/17 09:01 22m eadavis@sina.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 238650ef6c7c OK job log log

Sample crash report:
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007f6210a25fac R14: 00007f6210a25fa0 R15: 00007f6210a25fa0
 </TASK>
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat+0x28f/0x360 fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c:137
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802b378610 by task syz.0.20/5927

CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 5927 Comm: syz.0.20 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 lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat+0x28f/0x360 fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c:137
 ecryptfs_get_tree+0x10b6/0x15b0 fs/ecryptfs/main.c:566
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x320 fs/super.c:1933
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3772 [inline]
 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3848 [inline]
 path_mount+0x7d0/0x24c0 fs/namespace.c:4168
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4374 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mount+0x293/0x310 fs/namespace.c:4374
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f621079e159
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:00007fff0780ea08 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6210a25fa0 RCX: 00007f621079e159
RDX: 0000200000000480 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000200000000400
RBP: 00007fff0780ea70 R08: 0000200000000500 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007f6210a25fac R14: 00007f6210a25fa0 R15: 00007f6210a25fa0
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5927:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 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]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x269/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:5010
 ecryptfs_init_fs_context+0x6b/0x200 fs/ecryptfs/main.c:617
 alloc_fs_context+0x60c/0xf40 fs/fs_context.c:295
 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3828 [inline]
 path_mount+0xdbd/0x24c0 fs/namespace.c:4168
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4374 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mount+0x293/0x310 fs/namespace.c:4374
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5927:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6508 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x127/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6635
 ecryptfs_kill_block_super+0x81/0xa0 fs/ecryptfs/main.c:586
 deactivate_locked_super+0xbd/0x140 fs/super.c:589
 ecryptfs_get_tree+0x10e9/0x15b0 fs/ecryptfs/main.c:563
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x320 fs/super.c:1933
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3772 [inline]
 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3848 [inline]
 path_mount+0x7d0/0x24c0 fs/namespace.c:4168
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4374 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mount+0x293/0x310 fs/namespace.c:4374
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802b378600
 which belongs to the cache ecryptfs_sb_cache of size 280
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 freed 280-byte region [ffff88802b378600, ffff88802b378718)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2b378
head: order:1 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 ffff888024ddadc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000200150015 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff888024ddadc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000200150015 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000001 ffffffffffffff81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5924, tgid 5924 (syz.0.17), ts 74770264892
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x110d/0x35d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2eb/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3462 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa9/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:3513
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7417
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x4c4/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:5010
 ecryptfs_init_fs_context+0x6b/0x200 fs/ecryptfs/main.c:617
 alloc_fs_context+0x60c/0xf40 fs/fs_context.c:295
 do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3828 [inline]
 path_mount+0xdbd/0x24c0 fs/namespace.c:4168
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4374 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mount+0x293/0x310 fs/namespace.c:4374
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 5862 tgid 5862 ts 74382051531 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 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]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x265/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:5029
 __d_alloc+0x35/0xa50 fs/dcache.c:1907
 d_alloc+0x4a/0x1e0 fs/dcache.c:1986
 lookup_one_qstr_excl+0x171/0x250 fs/namei.c:1806
 __start_dirop fs/namei.c:2920 [inline]
 start_dirop+0x59/0xb0 fs/namei.c:2942
 simple_start_creating+0xf9/0x110 fs/libfs.c:2308
 debugfs_start_creating.part.0+0x9f/0x180 fs/debugfs/inode.c:397
 debugfs_start_creating fs/debugfs/inode.c:368 [inline]
 __debugfs_create_file+0x86/0x4d0 fs/debugfs/inode.c:431
 debugfs_create_file_full+0x41/0x60 fs/debugfs/inode.c:463
 cfg80211_debugfs_rdev_add+0xce/0x250 net/wireless/debugfs.c:138
 wiphy_register+0x242d/0x3110 net/wireless/core.c:1184
 ieee80211_register_hw+0x3053/0x4580 net/mac80211/main.c:1626

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802b378500: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802b378580: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88802b378600: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88802b378680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802b378700: fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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Crashes (15):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/17 04:56 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/10/29 10:54 upstream c339f4010dea b1d00f76 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/11/04 08:46 upstream 05441d697f7f 5af5b6c6 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/11/04 08:45 upstream 05441d697f7f 5af5b6c6 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/10/30 01:52 upstream 4dd16e31135e b498adee .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/10/12 16:42 upstream 24a19b953e2a 745a967f .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/10/03 18:52 upstream e767a4ea70a3 57bbd979 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/09/27 22:52 upstream d266640c6c76 a3c7249d .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/09/17 04:01 upstream 238650ef6c7c 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/09/14 20:33 upstream 704340f1cd0d 924033e8 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/09/19 12:17 upstream 50d05c7c76c9 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/09/16 12:34 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 12a0a44a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/10/30 14:42 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 7a19f0cc94ad b498adee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/10/11 15:15 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 71c3e5409eef 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
2026/10/11 15:15 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 71c3e5409eef 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ecryptfs_destroy_mount_crypt_stat
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.