linux-kernel - Re: Linux6.14-rc5: KASAN: use-after-free Read in zswap

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Message-ID: <Z9hnf0Zv7_1vkh3n@google.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:18:39 +0000
From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>
To: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>
Cc: ffhgfv <xnxc22xnxc22@...com>, hannes <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	nphamcs <nphamcs@...il.com>, akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux6.14-rc5: KASAN: use-after-free Read in zswap_store

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 10:33:20AM +0800, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> On 2025/3/17 08:13, ffhgfv wrote:
> > Hello, I found a bug titled " KASAN: use-after-free Read in zswap_store " with modified syzkaller in the Linux6.14-rc5.
> > If you fix this issue, please add the following tag to the commit:  Reported-by: Jianzhou Zhao <xnxc22xnxc22@...com>,    xingwei lee <xrivendell7@...il.com>, Zhizhuo Tang <strforexctzzchange@...mail.com>
> > 
> > I use the same kernel as syzbot instance upstream: 7eb172143d5508b4da468ed59ee857c6e5e01da6
> > kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=KernelConfig&amp;x=da4b04ae798b7ef6
> > compiler: gcc version 11.4.0
> > ------------[ cut here ]-----------------------------------------
> >   TITLE:   KASAN: use-after-free Read in zswap_store
> > ==================================================================
> > ==================================================================
> > BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:86 [inline]
> > BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock+0x285/0x2e0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:115
> > Read of size 4 at addr ffff88804e78e014 by task kswapd0/98
> > 
> > CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 98 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-dirty #11
> > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
> > Call Trace:
> >   <task>
> >   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
> >   dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1b0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
> >   print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
> >   print_report+0xc1/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:521
> >   kasan_report+0x93/0xc0 mm/kasan/report.c:634
> >   debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:86 [inline]
> >   do_raw_spin_lock+0x285/0x2e0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:115
> >   spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline]
> >   z3fold_page_lock mm/z3fold.c:223 [inline]
> >   z3fold_alloc mm/z3fold.c:1060 [inline]
> >   z3fold_zpool_malloc+0x9b1/0x1410 mm/z3fold.c:1388
> >   zswap_compress mm/zswap.c:971 [inline]
> >   zswap_store_page mm/zswap.c:1462 [inline]
> >   zswap_store+0xe46/0x41e0 mm/zswap.c:1571
> >   swap_writepage+0x3a7/0x1430 mm/page_io.c:278
> >   pageout+0x3bf/0xac0 mm/vmscan.c:696
> >   shrink_folio_list+0x3509/0x4480 mm/vmscan.c:1402
> >   evict_folios+0x849/0x2100 mm/vmscan.c:4660
> >   try_to_shrink_lruvec+0x608/0x9b0 mm/vmscan.c:4821
> >   shrink_one+0x412/0x7d0 mm/vmscan.c:4866
> >   shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:4929 [inline]
> >   lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:5007 [inline]
> >   shrink_node+0x2355/0x3c10 mm/vmscan.c:5978
> >   kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6807 [inline]
> >   balance_pgdat+0xa85/0x1740 mm/vmscan.c:6999
> >   kswapd+0x4c0/0xbe0 mm/vmscan.c:7264
> >   kthread+0x427/0x880 kernel/kthread.c:464
> >   ret_from_fork+0x45/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
> >   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
> >   </task>
> > 
> > The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
> > page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x564c9cd0a pfn:0x4e78e
> > flags: 0x4fff00000000000(node=1|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
> > raw: 04fff00000000000 ffffea000139e508 ffffea000139e248 0000000000000000
> > raw: 0000000564c9cd0a 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
> > page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
> > page_owner tracks the page as freed
> > page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x12800(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 98, tgid 98 (kswapd0), ts 431124924160, free_ts 431131252025
> >   set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
> >   post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:1551 [inline]
> >   prep_new_page+0x1b0/0x1e0 mm/page_alloc.c:1559
> >   get_page_from_freelist+0x19a2/0x3250 mm/page_alloc.c:3477
> >   __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x324/0x6b0 mm/page_alloc.c:4739
> >   alloc_pages_mpol+0x20a/0x550 mm/mempolicy.c:2270
> >   alloc_pages_noprof+0x1c/0x250 mm/mempolicy.c:2361
> >   z3fold_alloc mm/z3fold.c:1036 [inline]
> >   z3fold_zpool_malloc+0x7aa/0x1410 mm/z3fold.c:1388
> >   zswap_compress mm/zswap.c:971 [inline]
> >   zswap_store_page mm/zswap.c:1462 [inline]
> >   zswap_store+0xe46/0x41e0 mm/zswap.c:1571
> >   swap_writepage+0x3a7/0x1430 mm/page_io.c:278
> >   pageout+0x3bf/0xac0 mm/vmscan.c:696
> >   shrink_folio_list+0x3509/0x4480 mm/vmscan.c:1402
> >   evict_folios+0x849/0x2100 mm/vmscan.c:4660
> >   try_to_shrink_lruvec+0x608/0x9b0 mm/vmscan.c:4821
> >   shrink_one+0x412/0x7d0 mm/vmscan.c:4866
> >   shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:4929 [inline]
> >   lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:5007 [inline]
> >   shrink_node+0x2355/0x3c10 mm/vmscan.c:5978
> >   kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6807 [inline]
> >   balance_pgdat+0xa85/0x1740 mm/vmscan.c:6999
> >   kswapd+0x4c0/0xbe0 mm/vmscan.c:7264
> > page last free pid 38 tgid 38 stack trace:
> 
> It looks like the z3fold doesn't handle the migration correctly?
> But it's suggested that we should use zsmalloc as zswap allocator,
> and the z3fold/zbud will be deleted.

Yeah this code should be gone in v6.15.