Hello,
syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in ext4_find_extent
EXT4-fs (loop4): stripe (1570) is not aligned with cluster size (16), stripe is disabled ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_ext_binsearch fs/ext4/extents.c:841 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ext4_find_extent+0xae6/0xcc0 fs/ext4/extents.c:956 Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880739bce18 by task syz.4.64/6825
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6825 Comm: syz.4.64 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595 ext4_ext_binsearch fs/ext4/extents.c:841 [inline] ext4_find_extent+0xae6/0xcc0 fs/ext4/extents.c:956 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x27c/0x3880 fs/ext4/extents.c:4211 ext4_map_query_blocks+0x13b/0x930 fs/ext4/inode.c:550 ext4_map_blocks+0x4b3/0x1740 fs/ext4/inode.c:773 _ext4_get_block+0x200/0x4c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:910 ext4_get_block_unwritten+0x2e/0x100 fs/ext4/inode.c:943 ext4_block_write_begin+0x990/0x1710 fs/ext4/inode.c:1198 ext4_write_begin+0xc04/0x19a0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h:-1 ext4_da_write_begin+0x445/0xda0 fs/ext4/inode.c:3129 generic_perform_write+0x2c2/0x900 mm/filemap.c:4175 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0xce/0x3a0 fs/ext4/file.c:299 ext4_file_write_iter+0x298/0x1bc0 fs/ext4/file.c:-1 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline] vfs_write+0x5c9/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:686 ksys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:793 [inline] __do_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:801 [inline] __se_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:798 [inline] __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x193/0x220 fs/read_write.c:798 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f105318e969 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:00007f1054026038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000012 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f10533b5fa0 RCX: 00007f105318e969 RDX: 000000000000fdef RSI: 0000200000000140 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00007f1053210ab1 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 000000000000fecc R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f10533b5fa0 R15: 00007ffeabbc1e38 </TASK>
Allocated by task 6341: kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline] kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:388 [inline] __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:405 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline] __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4376 [inline] __kmalloc_noprof+0x27a/0x4f0 mm/slub.c:4388 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline] kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline] __register_sysctl_table+0x72/0x1340 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1379 __addrconf_sysctl_register+0x328/0x4c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7321 addrconf_sysctl_register+0x168/0x1c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7369 ipv6_add_dev+0xd46/0x1370 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:460 addrconf_notify+0x794/0x1010 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3650 notifier_call_chain+0x1b6/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:85 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2267 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2281 [inline] register_netdevice+0x1608/0x1ae0 net/core/dev.c:11244 register_netdev+0x40/0x60 net/core/dev.c:11322 sit_init_net+0x228/0x5c0 net/ipv6/sit.c:1867 ops_init+0x359/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137 setup_net+0xfe/0x320 net/core/net_namespace.c:445 copy_net_ns+0x34e/0x4e0 net/core/net_namespace.c:580 create_new_namespaces+0x3f3/0x720 kernel/nsproxy.c:110 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x11c/0x170 kernel/nsproxy.c:218 ksys_unshare+0x4c8/0x8c0 kernel/fork.c:3132 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3203 [inline] __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3201 [inline] __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x50 kernel/fork.c:3201 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880739bc000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096 The buggy address is located 1504 bytes to the right of allocated 2104-byte region [ffff8880739bc000, ffff8880739bc838)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x739b8 head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 memcg:ffff888027c52441 flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801a04b500 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 ffff888027c52441 head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801a04b500 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 ffff888027c52441 head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0001ce6e01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected page_owner tracks the page as allocated page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 6341, tgid 6341 (syz-executor), ts 124779228140, free_ts 121882435080 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline] post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline] get_page_from_freelist+0x21d5/0x22b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2492 [inline] allocate_slab+0x8a/0x370 mm/slub.c:2660 new_slab mm/slub.c:2714 [inline] ___slab_alloc+0xbeb/0x1420 mm/slub.c:3901 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3992 [inline] __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4067 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4228 [inline] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x296/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4402 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline] kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline] snmp6_alloc_dev net/ipv6/addrconf.c:362 [inline] ipv6_add_dev+0x6ca/0x1370 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:413 addrconf_notify+0x794/0x1010 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3650 notifier_call_chain+0x1b6/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:85 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2267 [inline] call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2281 [inline] register_netdevice+0x1608/0x1ae0 net/core/dev.c:11244 register_netdev+0x40/0x60 net/core/dev.c:11322 sit_init_net+0x228/0x5c0 net/ipv6/sit.c:1867 ops_init+0x359/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137 setup_net+0xfe/0x320 net/core/net_namespace.c:445 copy_net_ns+0x34e/0x4e0 net/core/net_namespace.c:580 page last free pid 6267 tgid 6267 stack trace: reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline] free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline] __free_frozen_pages+0xbb1/0xd20 mm/page_alloc.c:2895 vfree+0x25a/0x400 mm/vmalloc.c:3434 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:439 [inline] kcov_close+0x28/0x50 kernel/kcov.c:535 __fput+0x44c/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:468 task_work_run+0x1d1/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline] do_exit+0x6b5/0x2300 kernel/exit.c:961 do_group_exit+0x21c/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1102 get_signal+0x125e/0x1310 kernel/signal.c:3034 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x9a/0x750 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x75/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:40 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Memory state around the buggy address: ffff8880739bcd00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff8880739bcd80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8880739bce00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^ ffff8880739bce80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff8880739bcf00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ==================================================================
Tested on:
commit: 22bdd6e6 Merge tag 'x86_apic_for_v6.18_rc1' of git://g.. git tree: upstream console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=134485cd980000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=6899ea2dd30a3ed1 dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9db318d6167044609878 compiler: Debian clang version 20.1.8 (++20250708063551+0c9f909b7976-1~exp1~20250708183702.136), Debian LLD 20.1.8 patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=114e8260580000