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Subject: [syzbot] [ext4?] KASAN: use-after-free Read in ext4_search_dir (3)
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:07:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a4ee63d.c76b52dc.34afef.0024.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: d2c9a99135da Merge tag 'device-id-rework' of git://git.ker..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=138fec6e580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=20c9876b0f77b546
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4eb78541a595c5ad659f
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
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Reported-by: syzbot+4eb78541a595c5ad659f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_search_dir+0x180/0x250 fs/ext4/namei.c:1469
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88801323b3aa by task syz.0.0/5323
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5323 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 04/01/2014
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
ext4_search_dir+0x180/0x250 fs/ext4/namei.c:1469
ext4_find_inline_entry+0x502/0x650 fs/ext4/inline.c:1639
__ext4_find_entry+0x315/0x1cd0 fs/ext4/namei.c:1542
ext4_lookup_entry fs/ext4/namei.c:1703 [inline]
ext4_lookup+0x17b/0x710 fs/ext4/namei.c:1769
lookup_open fs/namei.c:4481 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4608 [inline]
path_openat+0x111f/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4856
do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4888
do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1368
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1374 [inline]
__do_sys_open fs/open.c:1382 [inline]
__se_sys_open fs/open.c:1378 [inline]
__x64_sys_open+0x11e/0x150 fs/open.c:1378
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdc5619de59
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:00007fdc56fc5fe8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000002
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdc56426090 RCX: 00007fdc5619de59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000064842 RDI: 00002000000005c0
RBP: 00007fdc56233e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdc56426128 R14: 00007fdc56426090 R15: 00007ffea8722208
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xa96 pfn:0x1323b
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000a96 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 5322, tgid 5321 (syz.0.0), ts 105785277419, free_ts 105927156983
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x21fa/0x2270 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
alloc_pages_mpol+0x212/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2490
folio_alloc_mpol_noprof+0x39/0x160 mm/mempolicy.c:2509
shmem_alloc_folio mm/shmem.c:1907 [inline]
shmem_alloc_and_add_folio+0x43e/0xf60 mm/shmem.c:1949
shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x5da/0x16d0 mm/shmem.c:2502
shmem_get_folio mm/shmem.c:2608 [inline]
shmem_write_begin+0x16c/0x330 mm/shmem.c:3239
generic_perform_write+0x2d5/0x8f0 mm/filemap.c:4358
shmem_file_write_iter+0xf8/0x120 mm/shmem.c:3414
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
vfs_write+0x612/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:687
ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 69 tgid 69 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
free_unref_folios+0xd84/0x14a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3011
shrink_folio_list+0x2b7d/0x5330 mm/vmscan.c:1513
evict_folios+0x3821/0x4b40 mm/vmscan.c:4835
try_to_shrink_lruvec+0xb4f/0xed0 mm/vmscan.c:4983
shrink_one+0x233/0x730 mm/vmscan.c:5024
shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:5087 [inline]
lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:5165 [inline]
shrink_node+0x3303/0x3b60 mm/vmscan.c:6154
kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:7008 [inline]
balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:7186 [inline]
kswapd+0x17b6/0x31c0 mm/vmscan.c:7462
kthread+0x388/0x470 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:
ffff88801323b280: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff88801323b300: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88801323b380: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
^
ffff88801323b400: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff88801323b480: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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