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Subject: [syzbot] [ext4?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in do_split
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:54:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6abae226.69bd487b.a6f8c.000a.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 72d3fcf802c4 Linux 7.3-rc5
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=147f6325580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=718e346eb0b8f38
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=09bec78ee77613a3efdd
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=12379605580000
C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=127f6325580000
Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/6e221bb16a33/disk-72d3fcf8.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/705025f5cae2/vmlinux-72d3fcf8.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/5f22341c14fa/bzImage-72d3fcf8.xz
mounted in repro: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/5d87cd1c0001/mount_0.gz
fsck result: OK (log: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/fsck.log?x=17e37605580000)
IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+09bec78ee77613a3efdd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dx_move_dirents fs/ext4/namei.c:1863 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_split+0x1241/0x1e90 fs/ext4/namei.c:1993
Write of size 90458 at addr ffff88803b38ac6e by task syz.0.17/6003
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6003 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
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
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
__asan_memset+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/shadow.c:84
dx_move_dirents fs/ext4/namei.c:1863 [inline]
do_split+0x1241/0x1e90 fs/ext4/namei.c:1993
make_indexed_dir+0xdab/0x1360 fs/ext4/namei.c:2328
__ext4_add_entry+0x1e77/0x1ff0 fs/ext4/namei.c:2432
ext4_add_entry fs/ext4/namei.c:2469 [inline]
ext4_rename fs/ext4/namei.c:3939 [inline]
ext4_rename2+0x1f71/0x3270 fs/ext4/namei.c:4218
vfs_rename+0xbd9/0xef0 fs/namei.c:6208
filename_renameat2+0x533/0x9b0 fs/namei.c:6326
__do_sys_rename fs/namei.c:6370 [inline]
__se_sys_rename+0x55/0x2c0 fs/namei.c:6366
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
RIP: 0033:0x7fe7da7be159
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:00007fe7d9dfd028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000052
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe7daa46090 RCX: 00007fe7da7be159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000780 RDI: 0000200000000100
RBP: 00007fe7da85506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe7daa46128 R14: 00007fe7daa46090 R15: 00007fff45d807e8
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff888023717420 index:0x8 pfn:0x3b38a
memcg:ffff88801c2dc200
aops:def_blk_aops ino:700000 dentry name(?):""
flags: 0x8000000000493c(referenced|uptodate|dirty|lru|active|owner_2|private|node=0|zone=1)
raw: 008000000000493c ffffea0000efb748 ffffea0000d68388 ffff888023717420
raw: 0000000000000008 ffff8880235dbb40 00000002ffffffff ffff88801c2dc200
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x152c40(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 5836, tgid 5836 (udevd), ts 120465350871
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_pages_mpol+0xd4/0x280 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
alloc_frozen_pages_noprof mm/mempolicy.c:2557 [inline]
alloc_pages_noprof+0xd2/0x2f0 mm/mempolicy.c:2577
folio_alloc_noprof+0x22/0xc0 mm/mempolicy.c:2587
filemap_alloc_folio_noprof+0x111/0x4c0 mm/filemap.c:1019
ractl_alloc_folio mm/readahead.c:200 [inline]
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x2d6/0x8f0 mm/readahead.c:288
do_page_cache_ra mm/readahead.c:348 [inline]
force_page_cache_ra+0x26f/0x2e0 mm/readahead.c:378
filemap_get_pages+0x493/0x1e80 mm/filemap.c:2714
filemap_read+0x429/0x11e0 mm/filemap.c:2824
blkdev_read_iter+0x2f8/0x430 block/fops.c:832
new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:493 [inline]
vfs_read+0x59e/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:574
ksys_read+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:716
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
page last free pid 28 tgid 28 ts 120462276719 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
__tlb_remove_table_free mm/mmu_gather.c:228 [inline]
tlb_remove_table_rcu+0x85/0x100 mm/mmu_gather.c:291
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2650 [inline]
rcu_core kernel/rcu/tree.c:2919 [inline]
rcu_cpu_kthread+0xb2c/0x1740 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3007
smpboot_thread_fn+0x565/0xa70 kernel/smpboot.c:160
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
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88803b38af00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff88803b38af80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88803b38b000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88803b38b080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb
ffff88803b38b100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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