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This means that a\nconcurrent task that is aborting the transaction may free the transaction\nbefore we read its 'aborted' field, leading to a use-after-free.\n\nFix this by reading the 'aborted' field while holding fs_info->trans_lock\nsince any freeing task must first acquire that lock and set\nfs_info->running_transaction to NULL before freeing the transaction.\n\nThis was reported by syzbot and Dmitry with the following stack traces\nfrom KASAN:\n\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in join_transaction+0xd9b/0xda0 fs/btrfs/transaction.c:278\n Read of size 4 at addr ffff888011839024 by task kworker/u4:9/1128\n\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1128 Comm: kworker/u4:9 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-syzkaller-00019-gc45323b7560e #0\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: events_unbound btrfs_async_reclaim_data_space\n Call Trace:\n \n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 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