[v6.6] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in super_lock

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syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit: 9247f4e6573a Linux 6.6.98
git tree: linux-6.6.y
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1014518c580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=cfe840f14e117c98
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=accc2a70d2f6627b2b3e
compiler: Debian clang version 20.1.7 (++20250616065708+6146a88f6049-1~exp1~20250616065826.132), Debian LLD 20.1.7

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0xff/0x7c80 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5005
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880229020e0 by task syz.0.1414/10548

CPU: 1 PID: 10548 Comm: syz.0.1414 Not tainted 6.6.98-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
print_report+0xac/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:475
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:588
__lock_acquire+0xff/0x7c80 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5005
lock_acquire+0x197/0x410 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
down_read+0x46/0x2e0 kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1520
__super_lock fs/super.c:58 [inline]
super_lock+0x167/0x360 fs/super.c:117
super_lock_shared fs/super.c:146 [inline]
super_lock_shared_active fs/super.c:1442 [inline]
fs_bdev_sync+0xa4/0x170 fs/super.c:1477
blkdev_flushbuf block/ioctl.c:375 [inline]
blkdev_common_ioctl+0x880/0x23d0 block/ioctl.c:505
blkdev_ioctl+0x4eb/0x6f0 block/ioctl.c:627
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f1d7fd8e929
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f1d80c40038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1d7ffb5fa0 RCX: 00007f1d7fd8e929
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000001261 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f1d7fe10b39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f1d7ffb5fa0 R15: 00007ffe34ab4798
</TASK>

Allocated by task 10440:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:374 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:383
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:198 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1007 [inline]
__kmalloc+0xb4/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe3/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
tomoyo_path_perm+0x20f/0x4b0 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
tomoyo_path_symlink+0xa4/0xe0 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:211
security_path_symlink+0xe0/0x130 security/security.c:1786
do_symlinkat+0x108/0x3f0 fs/namei.c:4497
__do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4515 [inline]
__se_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4512 [inline]
__x64_sys_symlinkat+0x99/0xb0 fs/namei.c:4512
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 10440:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:236
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1806 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1832
slab_free mm/slub.c:3816 [inline]
__kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3829
tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x59d/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:286
tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
tomoyo_path_perm+0x20f/0x4b0 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
tomoyo_path_symlink+0xa4/0xe0 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:211
security_path_symlink+0xe0/0x130 security/security.c:1786
do_symlinkat+0x108/0x3f0 fs/namei.c:4497
__do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4515 [inline]
__se_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4512 [inline]
__x64_sys_symlinkat+0x99/0xb0 fs/namei.c:4512
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
__kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
insert_work+0x3d/0x310 kernel/workqueue.c:1651
__queue_work+0xc39/0x1020 kernel/workqueue.c:1800
queue_work_on+0x121/0x1e0 kernel/workqueue.c:1835
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2194 [inline]
rcu_core+0xcc4/0x1720 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2467
handle_softirqs+0x280/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
run_ksoftirqd+0x9c/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:950
smpboot_thread_fn+0x635/0xa00 kernel/smpboot.c:164
kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Second to last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
__kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
__call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:2721 [inline]
call_rcu+0x158/0x930 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2837
put_super fs/super.c:433 [inline]
deactivate_locked_super+0xd3/0x100 fs/super.c:494
cleanup_mnt+0x429/0x4c0 fs/namespace.c:1250
task_work_run+0x1ce/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:239
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xb1/0x140 kernel/entry/common.c:210
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
do_syscall_64+0x61/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888022902000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 224 bytes inside of
freed 4096-byte region [ffff888022902000, ffff888022903000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00008a4000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x22900
head:ffffea00008a4000 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017842140 ffffea0001398c00 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 6672, tgid 6671 (syz.0.227), ts 132949690703, free_ts 132793039844
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1cd/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1554
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
__alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x170 mm/slub.c:1876
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2023 [inline]
new_slab+0x87/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2076
___slab_alloc+0xc6d/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3230
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3329 [inline]
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3382 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3475 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a2/0x260 mm/slub.c:3524
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
__kmalloc+0xa4/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
kmem_alloc+0x13a/0x400 fs/xfs/kmem.c:20
xfs_init_fs_context+0x25/0x450 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c:1996
alloc_fs_context+0x64b/0x7c0 fs/fs_context.c:318
do_new_mount+0x10f/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3345
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3706 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3915 [inline]
__se_sys_mount+0x2da/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3892
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
discard_slab mm/slub.c:2122 [inline]
__unfreeze_partials+0x1cf/0x210 mm/slub.c:2662
put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2738
__slab_free+0x31d/0x410 mm/slub.c:3686
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x75/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:305
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3493 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3500 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc+0x11e/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:3509
getname_flags+0xbb/0x500 fs/namei.c:140
do_sys_openat2+0xcb/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1413
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1450 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1445 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1445
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888022901f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888022902000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888022902080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888022902100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888022902180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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