* [PATCH] hugetlbfs: emit hugetlbfs_free_inode from ->destroy_inode()
@ 2026-10-29 2:42 Joas Antonio dos Santos
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From: Joas Antonio dos Santos @ 2026-10-29 2:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Muchun Song, Oscar Salvador
Cc: David Hildenbrand, Andrew Morton, Hongbo Li,
syzbot+91e1fc35f51774c479b2, linux-mm, linux-fsdevel,
linux-kernel
hugetlbfs_free_inode() calls trace_hugetlbfs_free_inode(), and the
hugetlbfs__inode event class records inode->i_sb->s_dev. ->free_inode()
runs from an RCU callback (destroy_inode() queues i_callback() with
call_rcu()), and Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst says that this
callback "is *NOT* ordered wrt superblock destruction; as the matter of
fact, the superblock and all associated structures might be already
gone". put_super() frees the superblock with call_rcu() followed by a
workqueue item (destroy_super_rcu() -> destroy_super_work()). syzbot
hit this with the event enabled:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in trace_event_raw_event_hugetlbfs__inode+0x45b/0x4c0 include/trace/events/hugetlbfs.h:36
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888038850010 by task syz-executor952/6134
hugetlbfs_free_inode+0x15e/0x1f0 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:1182
i_callback+0x46/0x80 fs/inode.c:317
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2650 [inline]
rcu_core+0x5f0/0x1220 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2919
Allocated by task 6134:
alloc_super fs/super.c:326 [inline]
sget_fc+0x1ba/0x1f60 fs/super.c:874
hugetlbfs_get_tree+0x1e7/0x2b0 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:1431
Freed by task 855:
kfree+0x22b/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6923
process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3495
Emit the event from hugetlbfs_destroy_inode() instead. destroy_inode()
calls ->destroy_inode() synchronously, before it queues the RCU
callback, while the superblock is still alive; hugetlbfs_destroy_inode()
already dereferences inode->i_sb there. ->free_inode() is left with
only the kmem_cache_free().
Fixes: 014ad7c42a69 ("hugetlbfs: use tracepoints in hugetlbfs functions.")
Reported-by: syzbot+91e1fc35f51774c479b2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6ae27525.5451848c.f7707.0001.GAE@google.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joas Antonio dos Santos <joasantonio108@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Yaga Agent HackerSec Claude:claude-opus-5-5
---
Tested on net/main 94cea342e891 (arm64, QEMU, generic KASAN, tracing
enabled) with the syzbot C reproducer, which enables
events/hugetlbfs/hugetlbfs_free_inode and races hugetlbfs mounts and
lazy unmounts with open + unlink. Without this patch KASAN reports the
slab-use-after-free in trace_event_raw_event_hugetlbfs__inode() from
hugetlbfs_free_inode() <- i_callback() during the first 10 second run,
on 3 of 3 boots. With it, 12 runs over 2 boots are clean, and the trace
buffer still holds the hugetlbfs_free_inode events (about 46k per boot)
with valid dev numbers. fs/hugetlbfs/inode.o builds cleanly with W=1.
The event now fires when the inode is destroyed instead of when its
memory goes back to the slab cache, one RCU grace period earlier; the
recorded fields are the same.
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index 6656807..27a3937 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -1179,12 +1179,16 @@ static struct inode *hugetlbfs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
static void hugetlbfs_free_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
- trace_hugetlbfs_free_inode(inode);
kmem_cache_free(hugetlbfs_inode_cachep, HUGETLBFS_I(inode));
}
static void hugetlbfs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
+ /*
+ * Not in ->free_inode(): that runs from an RCU callback, when the
+ * superblock the event reads may already be freed.
+ */
+ trace_hugetlbfs_free_inode(inode);
hugetlbfs_inc_free_inodes(HUGETLBFS_SB(inode->i_sb));
}
--
2.39.5
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