Re: VFS: Close: file count is zero (use-after-free)

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Mon Mar 18 2024 - 05:32:40 EST


On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 07:57:28PM +0800, cheung wall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when using Healer to fuzz the latest Linux Kernel, the following crash
>
> was triggered on:
>
>
> HEAD commit: e8f897f4afef0031fe618a8e94127a0934896aba (tag: v6.8)
>
> git tree: upstream
>
> console output: https://pastebin.com/raw/nWDbVZij

Generally it's not great to have ever more fuzzer generated reports
outside of the official syzbot reports.

And fwiw, your link isn't even accessible.

>
> kernel config: https://pastebin.com/raw/4m4ax5gq
>
> C reproducer: https://pastebin.com/raw/0ZSaae7K

That program seemingly to the mounted block device and your config has
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED=y causing corruption. So that bug is likely
caused by that. Set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED=n for your testbot.