[Syz logs] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] CPU: 0 PID: 5098 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.6.0-syzkaller-15601-g4bbdb725a36b #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/09/2023 RIP: 0010:autofs_fill_super+0x47d/0xb50 fs/autofs/inode.c:334 [pid 5095] mount(NULL, "./file1", "autofs", 0, "fd=0x0000000000000000") = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) [Analysis] autofs_get_inode() will return null, when memory cannot be allocated. [Fix] Confirm that root_inode is not null before using it. Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+662f87a8ef490f45fa64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis <eadavis@xxxxxx> --- fs/autofs/inode.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/autofs/inode.c b/fs/autofs/inode.c index a5083d447a62..f2e89a444edf 100644 --- a/fs/autofs/inode.c +++ b/fs/autofs/inode.c @@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ static int autofs_fill_super(struct super_block *s, struct fs_context *fc) goto fail; root_inode = autofs_get_inode(s, S_IFDIR | 0755); + if (!root_inode) + goto fail_ino; + root_inode->i_uid = ctx->uid; root_inode->i_gid = ctx->gid; -- 2.25.1