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KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/10/10 18:16
Subsystems: ext4
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Reported-by: syzbot+e572868a12a792912c89@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 114d, last: 18d
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries 19 C 3 10d 10d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/18 01:47

Sample crash report:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048
=======================================================
WARNING: The mand mount option has been deprecated and
         and is ignored by this kernel. Remove the mand
         option from the mount to silence this warning.
=======================================================
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 r/w without journal. Quota mode: none.
loop0: detected capacity change from 2048 to 64
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): xattr_find_entry:337: inode #15: comm syz.0.0: corrupted xattr entries
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): get_max_inline_xattr_value_size:74: inode #15: comm syz.0.0: corrupt xattr in inline inode
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): xattr_find_entry:337: inode #15: comm syz.0.0: corrupted xattr entries
EXT4-fs error (device loop0): xattr_find_entry:337: inode #15: comm syz.0.0: corrupted xattr entries
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_list_entries+0x302/0x3d0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:724
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802311b014 by task syz.0.0/5376

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5376 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~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 ext4_xattr_list_entries+0x302/0x3d0 fs/ext4/xattr.c:724
 ext4_xattr_ibody_list fs/ext4/xattr.c:793 [inline]
 ext4_listxattr+0x1f9/0x630 fs/ext4/xattr.c:818
 vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:493 [inline]
 listxattr+0x112/0x2a0 fs/xattr.c:924
 filename_listxattr fs/xattr.c:958 [inline]
 path_listxattrat+0x179/0x3a0 fs/xattr.c:988
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f83e2d8f7c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f83e3bf7038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000c3
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f83e2fe5fa0 RCX: 00007f83e2d8f7c9
RDX: 00000000000000f2 RSI: 0000200000000640 RDI: 0000200000000440
RBP: 00007f83e2e13f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f83e2fe6038 R14: 00007f83e2fe5fa0 R15: 00007ffd497ac218
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x7f83d7b0f pfn:0x2311b
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea00008c4e48 ffffea00008c07c8 0000000000000000
raw: 00000007f83d7b0f 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Movable, gfp_mask 0x140dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_COMP), pid 5376, tgid 5375 (syz.0.0), ts 247070330416, free_ts 247258315053
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24e0/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 folio_alloc_mpol_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2505 [inline]
 vma_alloc_folio_noprof+0xe4/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:2540
 folio_prealloc+0x30/0x180 mm/memory.c:-1
 alloc_anon_folio mm/memory.c:5165 [inline]
 do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:5222 [inline]
 do_pte_missing+0x14e8/0x3330 mm/memory.c:4399
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6273 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:6411 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1b26/0x32b0 mm/memory.c:6580
 do_user_addr_fault+0xa7c/0x1380 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1336
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1476 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x71/0xd0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1532
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618
page last free pid 5376 tgid 5375 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xdb3/0x14f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3000
 folios_put_refs+0x584/0x670 mm/swap.c:1002
 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x277/0x520 mm/swap_state.c:355
 __tlb_batch_free_encoded_pages mm/mmu_gather.c:136 [inline]
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:149 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:397 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu+0x3a0/0x680 mm/mmu_gather.c:404
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xc3/0x1d0 mm/mmu_gather.c:497
 vms_clear_ptes+0x42b/0x530 mm/vma.c:1238
 vms_complete_munmap_vmas+0x206/0x8a0 mm/vma.c:1280
 do_vmi_align_munmap+0x364/0x440 mm/vma.c:1539
 do_vmi_munmap+0x253/0x2e0 mm/vma.c:1587
 __vm_munmap+0x207/0x380 mm/vma.c:3203
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:1077 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:1074 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x60/0x70 mm/mmap.c:1074
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802311af00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88802311af80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88802311b000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                         ^
 ffff88802311b080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88802311b100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/10 00:22 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2026/01/03 05:33 upstream 9b0436804460 d1b870e1 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2025/10/07 14:37 upstream c746c3b51698 8ef35d49 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
2025/10/06 18:10 upstream fd94619c4336 91305dbe .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_xattr_list_entries
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.