Re: [syzbot] [ext4?] KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_find_extent (4)

[syzbot <syzbot+ee60e584b5c6bb229126@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>]

Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_find_extent

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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_ext_binsearch fs/ext4/extents.c:841 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_find_extent+0xae6/0xcc0 fs/ext4/extents.c:956
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88806ecb8e18 by task kworker/u8:9/3520

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3520 Comm: kworker/u8:9 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: ext4-rsv-conversion ext4_end_io_rsv_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 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_ext_binsearch fs/ext4/extents.c:841 [inline]
 ext4_find_extent+0xae6/0xcc0 fs/ext4/extents.c:956
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x288/0x6ac0 fs/ext4/extents.c:4208
 ext4_map_create_blocks fs/ext4/inode.c:609 [inline]
 ext4_map_blocks+0x860/0x1740 fs/ext4/inode.c:811
 ext4_convert_unwritten_extents+0x2ae/0x5d0 fs/ext4/extents.c:4976
 ext4_convert_unwritten_io_end_vec+0xff/0x170 fs/ext4/extents.c:5016
 ext4_end_io_end+0xc7/0x410 fs/ext4/page-io.c:199
 ext4_do_flush_completed_IO fs/ext4/page-io.c:290 [inline]
 ext4_end_io_rsv_work+0x262/0x330 fs/ext4/page-io.c:305
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3263 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3346
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x2f pfn:0x6ecb8
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001bb2dc8 ffffea0001bb2e48 0000000000000000
raw: 000000000000002f 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 0x140cca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP), pid 8356, tgid 8355 (syz.0.469), ts 208003260519, free_ts 208144424942
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1845
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1853 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2356/0x2430 mm/page_alloc.c:3879
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5178
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 folio_alloc_mpol_noprof+0x39/0x70 mm/mempolicy.c:2435
 shmem_alloc_folio mm/shmem.c:1870 [inline]
 shmem_alloc_and_add_folio+0x423/0xf40 mm/shmem.c:1912
 shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x59d/0x1660 mm/shmem.c:2535
 shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2641 [inline]
 shmem_write_begin+0xf7/0x2b0 mm/shmem.c:3291
 generic_perform_write+0x2c5/0x900 mm/filemap.c:4254
 shmem_file_write_iter+0xf8/0x120 mm/shmem.c:3466
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 6436 tgid 6436 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1394 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xe5d/0x15f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2958
 folios_put_refs+0x584/0x670 mm/swap.c:1002
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:101 [inline]
 shmem_undo_range+0x49e/0x14b0 mm/shmem.c:1119
 shmem_truncate_range mm/shmem.c:1231 [inline]
 shmem_evict_inode+0x272/0xa70 mm/shmem.c:1359
 evict+0x504/0x9c0 fs/inode.c:810
 __dentry_kill+0x209/0x660 fs/dcache.c:669
 dput+0x19f/0x2b0 fs/dcache.c:911
 __fput+0x68e/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:476
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe9/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:43
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88806ecb8d00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88806ecb8d80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88806ecb8e00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                            ^
 ffff88806ecb8e80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88806ecb8f00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Tested on:

commit:         8e621c9a Merge tag 'net-6.18-rc7' of git://git.kernel...
git tree:       upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14babe0a580000
kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=6e611fe59206f39f
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ee60e584b5c6bb229126
compiler:       Debian clang version 20.1.8 (++20250708063551+0c9f909b7976-1~exp1~20250708183702.136), Debian LLD 20.1.8
patch:          https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=115ef692580000