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afs: fix NULL pointer dereference in afs_get_tree()
authorMatvey Kovalev <matvey.kovalev@ispras.ru>
Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:08:37 +0000 (10:08 +0100)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Wed, 1 Jul 2026 13:26:19 +0000 (15:26 +0200)
afs_alloc_sbi() uses kzalloc for memory allocation. And, if
ctx->dyn_root is not null, as->cell and as->volume are null.
In trace_afs_get_tree() they are dereferenced.

KASAN error message:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 2 PID: 18478 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 5.10.246-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1
04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:perf_trace_afs_get_tree+0x1d9/0x550
include/trace/events/afs.h:1365

Call Trace:
trace_afs_get_tree include/trace/events/afs.h:1365 [inline]
afs_get_tree+0x922/0x1350 fs/afs/super.c:599
vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 fs/super.c:1572
do_new_mount fs/namespace.c:3011 [inline]
path_mount+0x14a5/0x2220 fs/namespace.c:3341
do_mount fs/namespace.c:3354 [inline]
__do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3562 [inline]
__se_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3539 [inline]
__x64_sys_mount+0x283/0x300 fs/namespace.c:3539
 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x50 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 80548b03991f5 ("afs: Add more tracepoints")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matvey Kovalev <matvey.kovalev@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260622090856.2746629-4-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/afs/super.c

index 942f3e9800d7dc12a16189922b2b3b449e31cb1e..dec091e569c420721ca0071f7abd15f961ee4352 100644 (file)
@@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ static int afs_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
        }
 
        fc->root = dget(sb->s_root);
-       trace_afs_get_tree(as->cell, as->volume);
+       if (!ctx->dyn_root)
+               trace_afs_get_tree(as->cell, as->volume);
        _leave(" = 0 [%p]", sb);
        return 0;