[PATCH] btrfs: Fix BTRFS arm64 tagged KASAN false-positive

From: Daniel J Blueman

Date: Thu Mar 19 2026 - 01:35:39 EST


When booting Linux 7.0-rc4 on a Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 with KASAN
software tagging with a BTRFS filesystem, we see:

BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in xxh64_update (lib/xxhash.c:143 lib/xxhash.c:283)
Read of size 8 at addr 7bff000804fe1000 by task kworker/u49:2/138
Pointer tag: [7b], memory tag: [b2]

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 138 Comm: kworker/u49:2 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc4+ #34 PREEMPTLAZY
Hardware name: LENOVO 83ED/LNVNB161216, BIOS NHCN60WW 09/11/2025
Workqueue: btrfs-endio-meta simple_end_io_work
Call trace:
show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:501) (C)
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597)
kasan_check_range (mm/kasan/sw_tags.c:86 (discriminator 1))
__hwasan_loadN_noabort (mm/kasan/sw_tags.c:158)
xxh64_update (lib/xxhash.c:143 lib/xxhash.c:283)
btrfs_csum_update (fs/btrfs/fs.c:106)
csum_tree_block (fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:103 (discriminator 3))
btrfs_validate_extent_buffer (fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:389)
end_bbio_meta_read (fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:3853 (discriminator 1))
btrfs_bio_end_io (fs/btrfs/bio.c:152)
simple_end_io_work (fs/btrfs/bio.c:388)
process_one_work (./arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h:36 ./include/trace/events/workqueue.h:110 kernel/workqueue.c:3281)
worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3353 (discriminator 2) kernel/workqueue.c:3440 (discriminator 2))
kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
ret_from_fork (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:861)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:3 mapcount:0 mapping:f1ff00080055dee8 index:0x2467bd pfn:0x884fe1
memcg:51ff000800e68ec0 aops:btree_aops ino:1
flags: 0x9340000000004000(private|zone=2|kasantag=0x4d)
raw: 9340000000004000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 f1ff00080055dee8
raw: 00000000002467bd 43ff00081d0cc6f0 00000003ffffffff 51ff000800e68ec0
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff000804fe0e00: 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b
ffff000804fe0f00: 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b 7b
>ffff000804fe1000: b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2
^
ffff000804fe1100: b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2
ffff000804fe1200: b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2

This occurs as contiguous pages may have different KASAN tags in the upper address
bits, leading to a tag mismatch if linear addressing is used.

Fix this by treating them as discontiguous.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 397239ed6a6c ("btrfs: allow extent buffer helpers to skip cross-page handling")

---
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 5f97a3d2a8d7..e2b241fb6c0e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -3517,8 +3517,16 @@ struct extent_buffer *alloc_extent_buffer(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
* At this stage, either we allocated a large folio, thus @i
* would only be 0, or we fall back to per-page allocation.
*/
- if (i && folio_page(eb->folios[i - 1], 0) + 1 != folio_page(folio, 0))
- page_contig = false;
+ if (i > 0) {
+ struct page *prev = folio_page(eb->folios[i - 1], 0);
+ struct page *curr = folio_page(folio, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Contiguous pages may have different tags; can't be treated as contiguous
+ */
+ if (curr != prev + 1 || page_kasan_tag(curr) != page_kasan_tag(prev))
+ page_contig = false;
+ }

if (!btrfs_meta_folio_test_uptodate(folio, eb))
uptodate = 0;
--
2.53.0