[PATCH v2] fanotify: fix use-after-free of file range info

From: Chengfeng Ye

Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 09:51:25 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

Store the range position directly in the permission event and use
FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE when range information is unavailable. 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
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <nicoyip.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v2:
- Remove ppos from fanotify_perm_event and use FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE as the
sentinel for unavailable range information, as suggested by Jan Kara.
- Read the event-owned position directly when reporting range information.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20260730085801.2068723-1-nicoyip.dev@xxxxxxxxx/ [v1]

fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c | 3 +--
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h | 6 ++++--
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index a3555bebad63..b05b6d3abb87 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -600,8 +600,7 @@ static struct fanotify_event *fanotify_alloc_perm_event(const void *data,
pevent->hdr.len = 0;
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 : FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE;
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..3710543dbf82 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h
@@ -428,6 +428,8 @@ FANOTIFY_ME(struct fanotify_event *event)
return container_of(event, struct fanotify_mnt_event, fae);
}

+#define FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE ((loff_t)-1)
+
/*
* Structure for permission fanotify events. It gets allocated and freed in
* fanotify_handle_event() since we wait there for user response. When the
@@ -438,7 +440,7 @@ 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; /* FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE if unavailable */
size_t count;
u32 response; /* userspace answer to the event */
unsigned short state; /* state of the event */
@@ -468,7 +470,7 @@ static inline bool fanotify_event_has_access_range(struct fanotify_event *event)
if (!(event->mask & FANOTIFY_PRE_CONTENT_EVENTS))
return false;

- return FANOTIFY_PERM(event)->ppos;
+ return FANOTIFY_PERM(event)->pos != FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE;
}

static inline struct fanotify_event *FANOTIFY_E(struct fsnotify_event *fse)
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index b604e3da58ad..bba92d691f0d 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -675,12 +675,12 @@ static size_t copy_range_info_to_user(struct fanotify_event *event,
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(info_len > count))
return -EFAULT;

- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!pevent->ppos))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(pevent->pos == FANOTIFY_NO_RANGE))
return -EINVAL;

info.hdr.info_type = FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_RANGE;
info.hdr.len = info_len;
- info.offset = *(pevent->ppos);
+ info.offset = pevent->pos;
info.count = pevent->count;

if (copy_to_user(buf, &info, info_len))
--
2.43.0