Re: [BUG] sunrpc: rpc_pipe_msg left queued on a stack frame (nfsd cld upcall)

From: Jeff Layton

Date: Sat Aug 29 2026 - 07:54:01 EST


On Thu, 2026-08-27 at 16:10 -0700, Farhad Alemi wrote:
> Hello Chuck Lever, Jeff Layton,
>
> While fuzzing Linux 7.1-rc5 with syzkaller, as part of research at ASU's
> SEFCOM lab, we hit the crash below. Crash reports can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/farhad-alemi/public_bug_reports/tree/main/118-nfsd-cld-stack-rpc_pipe_msg-left-queued/
>
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in
> __list_add_valid_or_report+0x6a/0x130 lib/list_debug.c:32
> Read of size 8 at addr ffffc90007027950 by task syz.0.96/13066
> CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 13066 Comm: syz.0.96 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc5 #1 PREEMPT(full)
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
> 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> dump_stack_lvl+0x94/0xd0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
> print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
>
> Our reproducer.c is available upon request.
>
> Happy to test a patch if that would help.
>
> Regards,

We've had a lot of bugfixes go into the last couple of releases. Can
you test this against a more bleeding-edge kernel and see if it's still
a problem? Testing against Linus' master branch would be good, but if
you can pull down Chuck's nfsd-testing branch, that would be even
better.

Thanks,
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>