* [PATCH 3/7] afs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree()
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@ 2026-06-09 8:17 ` David Howells
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From: David Howells @ 2026-06-09 8:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christian Brauner
Cc: David Howells, Marc Dionne, linux-afs, linux-fsdevel,
linux-kernel, Matvey Kovalev, stable
From: Matvey Kovalev <matvey.kovalev@ispras.ru>
afs_alloc_sbi() uses kzalloc for memory allocation. And, if
ctx->dyn_root is not null, as->cell and as->volume are null.
In trace_afs_get_tree() they are dereferenced.
KASAN error message:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 2 PID: 18478 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 5.10.246-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1
04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:perf_trace_afs_get_tree+0x1d9/0x550
include/trace/events/afs.h:1365
Call Trace:
trace_afs_get_tree include/trace/events/afs.h:1365 [inline]
afs_get_tree+0x922/0x1350 fs/afs/super.c:599
vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 fs/super.c:1572
do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3011 [inline]
path_mount+0x14a5/0x2220 fs/namespace.c:3341
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3354 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3562 [inline]
__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3539 [inline]
__x64_sys_mount+0x283/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3539
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Fixes: 80548b03991f5 ("afs: Add more tracepoints")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matvey Kovalev <matvey.kovalev@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
---
fs/afs/super.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/afs/super.c b/fs/afs/super.c
index 942f3e9800d7..dec091e569c4 100644
--- a/fs/afs/super.c
+++ b/fs/afs/super.c
@@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ static int afs_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
}
fc->root = dget(sb->s_root);
- trace_afs_get_tree(as->cell, as->volume);
+ if (!ctx->dyn_root)
+ trace_afs_get_tree(as->cell, as->volume);
_leave(" = 0 [%p]", sb);
return 0;
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