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KASAN: use-after-free Read in do_sync

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/11/09 04:56
Reported-by: syzbot+f99039e908a5ef9baaf2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 81d, last: 11d
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in do_sync origin:upstream 19 C 15 1d14h 84d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/05 15:12
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in do_sync gfs2 19 2 206d 228d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/04 08:28
linux-5.15 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in do_sync 8 3 247d 289d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/03 20:25

Sample crash report:
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1344 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in up_write+0x67/0x420 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1604
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805f25b788 by task gfs2_quotad/4326

CPU: 0 PID: 4326 Comm: gfs2_quotad Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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
 __up_write kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1344 [inline]
 up_write+0x67/0x420 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1604
 inode_unlock include/linux/fs.h:792 [inline]
 do_sync+0x94d/0xc40 fs/gfs2/quota.c:984
 gfs2_quota_sync+0x32c/0x700 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1329
 quotad_check_timeo fs/gfs2/quota.c:1519 [inline]
 gfs2_quotad+0x403/0x890 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1586
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4313:
 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_slab_alloc+0x9c/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:467
 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+0x100/0x290 mm/slub.c:3238
 gfs2_alloc_inode+0x45/0x110 fs/gfs2/super.c:1447
 alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
 iget5_locked+0x9e/0x250 fs/inode.c:1263
 gfs2_iget fs/gfs2/inode.c:64 [inline]
 gfs2_inode_lookup+0x110/0xd30 fs/gfs2/inode.c:140
 gfs2_dir_search+0x165/0x220 fs/gfs2/dir.c:1665
 gfs2_lookupi+0x46c/0x600 fs/gfs2/inode.c:332
 gfs2_lookup_simple+0xab/0x100 fs/gfs2/inode.c:273
 init_inodes+0x180/0x320 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:906
 gfs2_fill_super+0x16b2/0x1f00 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1249
 get_tree_bdev+0x3f1/0x610 fs/super.c:1325
 gfs2_get_tree+0x4d/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3034
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3377 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3585 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e3/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3562
 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 4184:
 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+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x8f/0x210 mm/slub.c:3520
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2523 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x9d2/0x1670 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2763
 handle_softirqs+0x339/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:3011 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x189/0x950 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3091
 destroy_inode fs/inode.c:316 [inline]
 evict+0x834/0x8d0 fs/inode.c:662
 gfs2_put_super+0x2fe/0x7d0 fs/gfs2/super.c:603
 generic_shutdown_super+0x130/0x300 fs/super.c:475
 kill_block_super+0x7c/0xe0 fs/super.c:1427
 deactivate_locked_super+0x93/0xf0 fs/super.c:335
 cleanup_mnt+0x42d/0x4e0 fs/namespace.c:1148
 task_work_run+0x125/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10f/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805f25b640
 which belongs to the cache gfs2_inode of size 1608
The buggy address is located 328 bytes inside of
 1608-byte region [ffff88805f25b640, ffff88805f25bc88)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00017c9600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5f258
head:ffffea00017c9600 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
memcg:ffff88802b0ca501
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff88801dc6ddc0
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080120012 00000001ffffffff ffff88802b0ca501
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0x1d20d0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL|__GFP_RECLAIMABLE), pid 4313, ts 76536579131, free_ts 21891564226
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1bbd/0x1ca0 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5487
 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+0x80a/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+0x195/0x290 mm/slub.c:3238
 gfs2_alloc_inode+0x45/0x110 fs/gfs2/super.c:1447
 alloc_inode fs/inode.c:261 [inline]
 iget5_locked+0x9e/0x250 fs/inode.c:1263
 gfs2_iget fs/gfs2/inode.c:64 [inline]
 gfs2_inode_lookup+0x110/0xd30 fs/gfs2/inode.c:140
 gfs2_lookup_root fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:465 [inline]
 init_sb+0xa73/0x1350 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:532
 gfs2_fill_super+0x13d2/0x1f00 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1216
 get_tree_bdev+0x3f1/0x610 fs/super.c:1325
 gfs2_get_tree+0x4d/0x1e0 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1332
 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1530
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3034
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3377 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3585 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e3/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3562
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
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_contig_range+0x96/0xf0 mm/page_alloc.c:9406
 destroy_args+0xf0/0xa00 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1018
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x321/0x380 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1336
 do_one_initcall+0x272/0x730 init/main.c:1316
 do_initcall_level+0x137/0x1f0 init/main.c:1389
 do_initcalls+0x4b/0x90 init/main.c:1405
 kernel_init_freeable+0x3e9/0x570 init/main.c:1629
 kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1520
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805f25b680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805f25b700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88805f25b780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88805f25b800: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805f25b880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/18 05:07 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in do_sync
2025/11/09 04:55 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in do_sync
2026/01/12 14:07 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan general protection fault in do_sync
2026/01/08 00:36 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan general protection fault in do_sync
2026/01/07 14:25 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan general protection fault in do_sync
2025/12/31 05:10 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan general protection fault in do_sync
2025/11/25 19:11 linux-5.15.y cc5ec8769306 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan general protection fault in do_sync
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.