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Subject: [syzbot] [overlayfs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dentry_name
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:07:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6aaf3fe4.71f81b7d.15fa6d.0012.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 587858367581 Merge tag 'nfsd-7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.or..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10346115580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=b454dc6b1b7acd30
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ced26b784bf977d223dd
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dentry_name+0x328/0xb90 lib/vsprintf.c:926
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88804090c3c0 by task syz.9.246/8095
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8095 Comm: syz.9.246 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/08/2026
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
dentry_name+0x328/0xb90 lib/vsprintf.c:926
pointer+0x31a/0x1120 lib/vsprintf.c:2587
vsnprintf+0x626/0xef0 lib/vsprintf.c:2953
va_format lib/vsprintf.c:1725 [inline]
pointer+0xa12/0x1120 lib/vsprintf.c:2577
vsnprintf+0x626/0xef0 lib/vsprintf.c:2953
vprintk_store+0x3d9/0xdc0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2307
vprintk_emit+0x192/0x560 kernel/printk/printk.c:2455
_printk+0xdd/0x130 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504
__dynamic_pr_debug+0x1a2/0x260 lib/dynamic_debug.c:879
ovl_do_mkdir fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:258 [inline]
ovl_workdir_create+0x86f/0x8b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:345
ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:678 [inline]
ovl_get_workdir+0x339/0x1980 fs/overlayfs/super.c:836
ovl_fill_super_creds fs/overlayfs/super.c:1449 [inline]
ovl_fill_super+0x1702/0x4360 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1561
vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1391 [inline]
get_tree_nodev+0xbb/0x150 fs/super.c:1410
vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1933
fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3772 [inline]
do_new_mount+0x319/0xdc0 fs/namespace.c:3848
do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4374
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: 0033:0x7efca640e159
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:00007efca4666028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007efca6695fa0 RCX: 00007efca640e159
RDX: 00002000000001c0 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007efca64a503b R08: 0000200000000280 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007efca6696038 R14: 00007efca6695fa0 R15: 00007ffe1c4c4c78
</TASK>
Allocated by task 8095:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x35d/0x680 mm/slub.c:5029
__d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1907
d_alloc+0x4b/0x190 fs/dcache.c:1986
lookup_one_qstr_excl+0xd8/0x360 fs/namei.c:1806
__start_dirop fs/namei.c:2920 [inline]
start_dirop fs/namei.c:2942 [inline]
start_creating+0xce/0x100 fs/namei.c:3406
ovl_start_creating_upper fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:429 [inline]
ovl_workdir_create+0x1a1/0x8b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:321
ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:678 [inline]
ovl_get_workdir+0x339/0x1980 fs/overlayfs/super.c:836
ovl_fill_super_creds fs/overlayfs/super.c:1449 [inline]
ovl_fill_super+0x1702/0x4360 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1561
vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1391 [inline]
get_tree_nodev+0xbb/0x150 fs/super.c:1410
vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1933
fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3772 [inline]
do_new_mount+0x319/0xdc0 fs/namespace.c:3848
do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4374
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
Freed by task 20:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6508 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x187/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6635
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
Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
__call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3181 [inline]
call_rcu+0xee/0x8b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3301
dentry_kill+0x4d3/0x880 fs/dcache.c:845
finish_dput+0x1a/0x260 fs/dcache.c:1001
end_dirop fs/namei.c:2956 [inline]
end_creating include/linux/namei.h:120 [inline]
vfs_mkdir+0x11c/0x620 fs/namei.c:5422
ovl_do_mkdir fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h:257 [inline]
ovl_workdir_create+0x45f/0x8b0 fs/overlayfs/super.c:345
ovl_make_workdir fs/overlayfs/super.c:678 [inline]
ovl_get_workdir+0x339/0x1980 fs/overlayfs/super.c:836
ovl_fill_super_creds fs/overlayfs/super.c:1449 [inline]
ovl_fill_super+0x1702/0x4360 fs/overlayfs/super.c:1561
vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1391 [inline]
get_tree_nodev+0xbb/0x150 fs/super.c:1410
vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1933
fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3772 [inline]
do_new_mount+0x319/0xdc0 fs/namespace.c:3848
do_mount fs/namespace.c:4181 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4397 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4374
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
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88804090c370
which belongs to the cache dentry of size 376
The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of
freed 376-byte region [ffff88804090c370, ffff88804090c4e8)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x4090c
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff88802a5fe701
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff8881404153c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000200120012 00000000f5000000 ffff88802a5fe701
head: 0080000000000040 ffff8881404153c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000200120012 00000000f5000000 ffff88802a5fe701
head: 0080000000000001 ffffffffffffff81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0xd20d0(__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4953, tgid 4953 (udevd), ts 60620923678
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_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
refill_objects+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7417
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x339/0x690 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x455/0x680 mm/slub.c:5029
__d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1907
d_alloc_parallel+0xde/0x16c0 fs/dcache.c:2766
lookup_open+0x2cd/0x1a60 fs/namei.c:4471
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4767 [inline]
path_openat+0x67c/0x1d60 fs/namei.c:4997
do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5029
do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1417
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1434
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_owner free stack trace missing
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88804090c280: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff88804090c300: 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb
>ffff88804090c380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88804090c400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88804090c480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc
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