Re: [BUG] afs: ERR_PTR dereference in afs_lookup_server() error path
From: David Howells
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 07:47:11 EST
Hi Farhad,
> 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:
Have you tried it with 7.3-rc1?
> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffff9f
> RIP: 0010:afs_put_addrlist+0x43/0x250 fs/afs/addr_list.c:38
> afs_lookup_server+0xd3f/0x1020 fs/afs/server.c:243
> afs_alloc_server_list+0x800/0x11a0 fs/afs/server_list.c:82
> afs_create_volume+0x995/0x1290 fs/afs/volume.c:227
> afs_get_tree+0x955/0x10b0 fs/afs/super.c:555
It looks like alist is 0xffffffffffffff9f, but it's not immediately obvious
how it could be anything other than a valid pointer at that point.
> Our reproducer.c is available upon request.
If I could have that, please?
Thanks,
David