Message-ID: <979490b3e038d93aebccfa9a55e79d3f906e1bb5.camel@dubeyko.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:29:32 -0700
From: Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@...eyko.com>
To: Jiaming Zhang <r772577952@...il.com>, frank.li@...o.com, 
	glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Linux Kernel Bug] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in
 hfsplus_strcasecmp

On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 11:04 +0800, Jiaming Zhang wrote:
> Dear Linux kernel developers and maintainers:
> 
> We are writing to report a slab-out-of-bounds bug discovered in the
> hfsplus subsystem with our modified syzkaller. This bug is
> reproducible on the latest version (v6.17-rc6, commit
> f83ec76bf285bea5727f478a68b894f5543ca76e).
> 

Thank you for the report. Issue has been created:

https://github.com/hfs-linux-kernel/hfs-linux-kernel/issues/238

Thanks,
Slava.

> The kernel console output, kernel config, syzkaller reproducer, and C
> reproducer are attached to this email to help analysis. The KASAN
> report from v6.17-rc6, formatted by syz-symbolize, is listed below:
> 
> hfsplus: invalid length 63743 has been corrected to 255
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hfsplus_strcasecmp+0x1bc/0x490
> fs/hfsplus/unicode.c:47
> Read of size 2 at addr ffff88804b8d640c by task repro.out/9757
> 
> CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9757 Comm: repro.out Not tainted 6.17.0-rc6 #1
> PREEMPT(full)
> 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+0x1c1/0x2a0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
>  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
>  print_report+0x17e/0x810 mm/kasan/report.c:482
>  kasan_report+0x147/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:595
>  hfsplus_strcasecmp+0x1bc/0x490 fs/hfsplus/unicode.c:47
>  hfs_find_rec_by_key+0xa6/0x1e0 fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:89
>  __hfsplus_brec_find+0x18b/0x480 fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:124
>  hfsplus_brec_find+0x289/0x500 fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:184
>  hfsplus_brec_read+0x2b/0x120 fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:211
>  hfsplus_lookup+0x2aa/0x890 fs/hfsplus/dir.c:52
>  __lookup_slow+0x294/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:1808
>  lookup_slow+0x53/0x70 fs/namei.c:1825
>  walk_component+0x2d4/0x400 fs/namei.c:2129
>  lookup_last fs/namei.c:2630 [inline]
>  path_lookupat+0x163/0x430 fs/namei.c:2654
>  filename_lookup+0x212/0x570 fs/namei.c:2683
>  user_path_at+0x3a/0x60 fs/namei.c:3127
>  ksys_umount fs/namespace.c:2112 [inline]
>  __do_sys_umount fs/namespace.c:2120 [inline]
>  __se_sys_umount fs/namespace.c:2118 [inline]
>  __x64_sys_umount+0xee/0x160 fs/namespace.c:2118
>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
>  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
> RIP: 0033:0x452627
> Code: 06 00 48 83 c4 08 5b 5d c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 c3 66
> 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 a6 00 00 00 0f 05 <48>
> 3d
> 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
> RSP: 002b:00007ffc5dd08ae8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX:
> 00000000000000a6
> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004004a0 RCX: 0000000000452627
> RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: 00007ffc5dd08b90
> RBP: 00007ffc5dd09bd0 R08: 0000000000000015 R09: 00007ffc5dd08980
> R10: 00000000004b9560 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 000000000040a070
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000004bc018 R15: 00000000004004a0
>  </TASK>
> 
> Allocated by task 9757:
>  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]
>  hfsplus_find_init+0x8c/0x1d0 fs/hfsplus/bfind.c:21
>  hfsplus_lookup+0x19c/0x890 fs/hfsplus/dir.c:44
>  __lookup_slow+0x294/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:1808
>  lookup_slow+0x53/0x70 fs/namei.c:1825
>  walk_component+0x2d4/0x400 fs/namei.c:2129
>  lookup_last fs/namei.c:2630 [inline]
>  path_lookupat+0x163/0x430 fs/namei.c:2654
>  filename_lookup+0x212/0x570 fs/namei.c:2683
>  user_path_at+0x3a/0x60 fs/namei.c:3127
>  ksys_umount fs/namespace.c:2112 [inline]
>  __do_sys_umount fs/namespace.c:2120 [inline]
>  __se_sys_umount fs/namespace.c:2118 [inline]
>  __x64_sys_umount+0xee/0x160 fs/namespace.c:2118
>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
>  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
> 
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88804b8d6000
>  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
> The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
>  allocated 1036-byte region [ffff88804b8d6000, ffff88804b8d640c)
> 
> The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
> page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
> pfn:0x4b8d0
> head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0
> pincount:0
> anon flags: 0x4fff00000000040(head|node=1|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
> page_type: f5(slab)
> raw: 04fff00000000040 ffff88801a442000 0000000000000000
> dead000000000001
> raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 00000000f5000000
> 0000000000000000
> head: 04fff00000000040 ffff88801a442000 0000000000000000
> dead000000000001
> head: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 00000000f5000000
> 0000000000000000
> head: 04fff00000000003 ffffea00012e3401 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
> 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALL
> OC),
> pid 8133, tgid 8133 (sh), ts 23500816499, free_ts 23484371257
>  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+0x21e4/0x22c0 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]
>  __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4375 [inline]
>  __kmalloc_noprof+0x305/0x4f0 mm/slub.c:4388
>  kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
>  kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
>  tomoyo_init_log+0x1a32/0x1f30 security/tomoyo/audit.c:275
>  tomoyo_supervisor+0x340/0x1490 security/tomoyo/common.c:2198
>  tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:36 [inline]
>  tomoyo_env_perm+0x149/0x1e0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:63
>  tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:672 [inline]
>  tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x15cf/0x1aa0 security/tomoyo/domain.c:888
>  tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x11c/0x180 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:102
>  security_bprm_check+0x89/0x270 security/security.c:1302
>  search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1660 [inline]
>  exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1702 [inline]
>  bprm_execve+0x8ee/0x1450 fs/exec.c:1754
>  do_execveat_common+0x521/0x6b0 fs/exec.c:1860
>  do_execve fs/exec.c:1934 [inline]
>  __do_sys_execve fs/exec.c:2010 [inline]
>  __se_sys_execve fs/exec.c:2005 [inline]
>  __x64_sys_execve+0x94/0xb0 fs/exec.c:2005
> page last free pid 5289 tgid 5289 stack trace:
>  reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
>  free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
>  __free_frozen_pages+0xbc0/0xd40 mm/page_alloc.c:2895
>  discard_slab mm/slub.c:2758 [inline]
>  __put_partials+0x156/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:3223
>  put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:3298
>  __slab_free+0x2d5/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:4565
>  qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
>  qlist_free_all+0x97/0x140 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
>  kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
>  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:340
>  kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
>  slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4191 [inline]
>  slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4240 [inline]
>  kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x1bb/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:4292
>  __alloc_skb+0x12a/0x2f0 net/core/skbuff.c:659
>  netlink_sendmsg+0x5c6/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1871
>  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
>  __sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:729
>  ____sys_sendmsg+0x507/0x840 net/socket.c:2614
>  ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2668
>  __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2700 [inline]
>  __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2705 [inline]
>  __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2703 [inline]
>  __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x19b/0x260 net/socket.c:2703
>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
>  do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
> 
> Memory state around the buggy address:
>  ffff88804b8d6300: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>  ffff88804b8d6380: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > ffff88804b8d6400: 00 04 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>                       ^
>  ffff88804b8d6480: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>  ffff88804b8d6500: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
> ==================================================================
> 
> Please let me know if any further information is required.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jiaming Zhang.

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