[BUG] ceph: KASAN slab-use-after-free in ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs

From: Shuangpeng

Date: Thu Jul 02 2026 - 19:06:21 EST


Hi Kernel Maintainers,

I hit the following KASAN report while testing current upstream kernel:

KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs

on commit: e8c2f9fdadee7cbc75134dc463c1e0d856d6e5c7 (May 25 2026)

The reproducer and .config files are here.
https://gist.github.com/shuangpengbai/c82cc2452f2fd3f31815efb83ad80b1d

I'm happy to test debug patches or provide additional information.

Reported-by: Shuangpeng Bai <shuangpeng.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

[ 197.863252][ T795] ==================================================================
[ 197.864328][ T795] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs (fs/ceph/caps.c:3404)
[ 197.866347][ T795] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888117a93c38 by task kworker/1:2/795
[ 197.867135][ T795]
[ 197.867396][ T795] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 197.867399][ T795] Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn
[ 197.868513][ T795] Call Trace:
[ 197.868518][ T795] <TASK>
[ 197.868521][ T795] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:94 lib/dump_stack.c:120)
[ 197.868529][ T795] print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:378 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
[ 197.868548][ T795] kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
[ 197.868555][ T795] ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs (fs/ceph/caps.c:3404)
[ 197.868560][ T795] writepages_finish (fs/ceph/addr.c:980)
[ 197.868568][ T795] osd_dispatch (net/ceph/osd_client.c:2524 net/ceph/osd_client.c:3870 net/ceph/osd_client.c:5370)
[ 197.869699][ T795] ceph_con_process_message (net/ceph/messenger.c:1425)
[ 197.869718][ T795] ceph_con_v1_try_read (net/ceph/messenger_v1.c:1430)
[ 197.869727][ T795] ceph_con_workfn (net/ceph/messenger.c:1577)
[ 197.869731][ T795] process_scheduled_works (kernel/workqueue.c:3314 kernel/workqueue.c:3397)
[ 197.869739][ T795] worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3478)
[ 197.869754][ T795] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
[ 197.869765][ T795] ret_from_fork (kernel/process.c:158)
[ 197.869773][ T795] ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)
[ 197.869780][ T795] </TASK>
[ 197.869782][ T795]
[ 197.887591][ T795] Freed by task 795 on cpu 1 at 197.863249s:
[ 197.888221][ T795] kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:57 mm/kasan/common.c:78)
[ 197.888728][ T795] kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:584)
[ 197.889253][ T795] __kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:253 mm/kasan/common.c:285)
[ 197.889758][ T795] kmem_cache_free (include/linux/kasan.h:235 mm/slub.c:2689 mm/slub.c:6251 mm/slub.c:6378)
[ 197.890256][ T795] ceph_try_drop_cap_snap (fs/ceph/super.h:283 fs/ceph/caps.c:3213)
[ 197.890820][ T795] ceph_put_wrbuffer_cap_refs (fs/ceph/caps.c:3396)
[ 197.891411][ T795] writepages_finish (fs/ceph/addr.c:980)
[ 197.891930][ T795] osd_dispatch (net/ceph/osd_client.c:2524 net/ceph/osd_client.c:3870 net/ceph/osd_client.c:5370)
[ 197.892422][ T795] ceph_con_process_message (net/ceph/messenger.c:1425)
[ 197.892999][ T795] ceph_con_v1_try_read (net/ceph/messenger_v1.c:1430)
[ 197.893552][ T795] ceph_con_workfn (net/ceph/messenger.c:1577)
[ 197.894053][ T795] process_scheduled_works (kernel/workqueue.c:3314 kernel/workqueue.c:3397)
[ 197.894614][ T795] worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3478)
[ 197.895096][ T795] kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
[ 197.895519][ T795] ret_from_fork (kernel/process.c:158)
[ 197.896005][ T795] ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)
[ 197.896498][ T795]
[ 197.896754][ T795] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888117a93be0
[ 197.896754][ T795] which belongs to the cache ceph_cap_snap of size 240
[ 197.898196][ T795] The buggy address is located 88 bytes inside of
[ 197.898196][ T795] freed 240-byte region [ffff888117a93be0, ffff888117a93cd0)

Best,
Shuangpeng