KASAN: use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_pass

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/10/22 12:58
Reported-by: syzbot+bbaeb4b8c8b7b12527af@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 21d, last: 13d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_pass jffs2 19 syz, C done error 28 14d 951d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/04/05 10:01

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_lock_common+0x118/0x2400 kernel/locking/mutex.c:575
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807c23e130 by task jffs2_gcd_mtd0/4710

CPU: 1 PID: 4710 Comm: jffs2_gcd_mtd0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/07/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 __mutex_lock_common+0x118/0x2400 kernel/locking/mutex.c:575
 __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:729 [inline]
 mutex_lock_interruptible_nested+0x17/0x20 kernel/locking/mutex.c:765
 jffs2_garbage_collect_pass+0xad/0x20b0 fs/jffs2/gc.c:134
 jffs2_garbage_collect_thread+0x577/0x610 fs/jffs2/background.c:155
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4706:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaf/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 jffs2_init_fs_context+0x4b/0xb0 fs/jffs2/super.c:313
 alloc_fs_context+0x628/0x7d0 fs/fs_context.c:290
 do_new_mount+0x10d/0xa50 fs/namespace.c:3039
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3431 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3639 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e3/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3616
 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

Freed by task 4191:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 deactivate_locked_super+0x93/0xf0 fs/super.c:335
 cleanup_mnt+0x426/0x4d0 fs/namespace.c:1148
 task_work_run+0x125/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:33 [inline]
 do_exit+0x635/0x2100 kernel/exit.c:890
 do_group_exit+0x12c/0x2f0 kernel/exit.c:1004
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1015 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1013 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3b/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1013
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807c23e000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 304 bytes inside of
 4096-byte region [ffff88807c23e000, ffff88807c23f000)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001f08e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7c238
head:ffffea0001f08e00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888017842140
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 3575, ts 20197837246, free_ts 20189459476
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
 ___slab_alloc+0x807/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xf9/0x290 mm/slub.c:3250
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 kernfs_iop_get_link+0x63/0x530 fs/kernfs/symlink.c:135
 vfs_readlink+0x16f/0x3e0 fs/namei.c:5132
 do_readlinkat+0x251/0x490 fs/stat.c:454
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:475 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:472 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x7b/0x90 fs/stat.c:472
 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:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2020 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2026 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x188/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:2512
 put_cpu_partial+0x12d/0x190 mm/slub.c:2592
 qlist_free_all+0x35/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x150/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xc0 mm/kasan/common.c:444
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x15d/0x280 mm/slub.c:3238
 getname_flags+0xb7/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:138
 user_path_at_empty+0x2a/0x190 fs/namei.c:2933
 do_readlinkat+0xd9/0x490 fs/stat.c:442
 __do_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:475 [inline]
 __se_sys_readlink fs/stat.c:472 [inline]
 __x64_sys_readlink+0x7b/0x90 fs/stat.c:472
 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:
 ffff88807c23e000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807c23e080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807c23e100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                     ^
 ffff88807c23e180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807c23e200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/30 18:51 linux-5.15.y 700e62ea909a 0ec395f8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_pass
2026/10/22 12:57 linux-5.15.y 792fbe1537d8 b55fad29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in jffs2_garbage_collect_pass
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.