[PATCH] fanotify: fix use-after-free of file range info

From: Chengfeng Ye

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 05:08:30 EST


fsnotify_pre_content() builds its file_range on the triggering task's
stack. fanotify_alloc_perm_event() saves a pointer to range.pos in the
heap-allocated permission event so copy_range_info_to_user() can report
the offset later.

The event reader can set the event state to FAN_EVENT_REPORTED and then
sleep while preparing the file descriptor. If a signal interrupts the
triggering task at that point, fanotify_get_response() changes the state
to FAN_EVENT_CANCELED and returns. This unwinds the file_range stack
frame while the reader still owns the event. The reader then dereferences
pevent->ppos and copies the stale stack value to userspace.

KASAN reported:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in fanotify_read+0x293e/0x2970
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811434fc50 by task fanotify_inotif/95
Call Trace:
fanotify_read+0x293e/0x2970
vfs_read+0x177/0xa20
ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0
do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x540
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Copy the range position into the permission event and make ppos refer to
that event-owned value. The event remains alive until the reader finishes,
so the reported offset no longer depends on the triggering task's stack.

Fixes: 870499bc1d4d ("fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c | 3 ++-
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index a3555bebad63..c97d1be70310 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -601,7 +601,8 @@ static struct fanotify_event *fanotify_alloc_perm_event(const void *data,
pevent->state = FAN_EVENT_INIT;
pevent->path = *path;
/* NULL ppos means no range info */
- pevent->ppos = range ? &range->pos : NULL;
+ pevent->pos = range ? range->pos : 0;
+ pevent->ppos = range ? &pevent->pos : NULL;
pevent->count = range ? range->count : 0;
path_get(path);

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
index a0619e7694d5..c964df6c0514 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
@@ -438,7 +438,8 @@ FANOTIFY_ME(struct fanotify_event *event)
struct fanotify_perm_event {
struct fanotify_event fae;
struct path path;
- const loff_t *ppos; /* optional file range info */
+ loff_t pos;
+ const loff_t *ppos; /* &pos if range info is available */
size_t count;
u32 response; /* userspace answer to the event */
unsigned short state; /* state of the event */
--
2.43.0