KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/27 22:56
Reported-by: syzbot+08414349f5cb507aa073@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 82d, last: 25d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in nfsd_svc 19 52 11d 82d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/27 07:18
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nfsd_svc 19 25 10d 82d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/27 23:12

Sample crash report:
svc: failed to register nfsdv3 RPC service (errno 111).
svc: failed to register nfsaclv3 RPC service (errno 111).
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:167 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:272 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in svc_put include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:123 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nfsd_svc+0x7a5/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:821
Write of size 4 at addr ffff888060e12c50 by task syz.4.39/4381

CPU: 1 PID: 4381 Comm: syz.4.39 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x235/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:167 [inline]
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:272 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
 svc_put include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:123 [inline]
 nfsd_svc+0x7a5/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:821
 write_threads+0x2ea/0x350 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:426
 nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
 vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fe2c2ced159
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fe2c0f45028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe2c2f74fa0 RCX: 00007fe2c2ced159
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000200000000380 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fe2c2d8406b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe2c2f75038 R14: 00007fe2c2f74fa0 R15: 00007ffe6065caa8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4381:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaf/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 __svc_create+0x60/0x9d0 net/sunrpc/svc.c:485
 svc_create_pooled+0x62f/0x810 net/sunrpc/svc.c:573
 nfsd_create_serv+0x2f9/0x700 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:668
 nfsd_svc+0x132/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:798
 write_threads+0x2ea/0x350 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:426
 nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
 vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Freed by task 4381:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 svc_put include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:123 [inline]
 nfsd_svc+0x771/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:820
 write_threads+0x2ea/0x350 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:426
 nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
 vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888060e12c00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff888060e12c00, ffff888060e12e00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001838400 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888060e13c00 pfn:0x60e10
head:ffffea0001838400 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea0001838608 ffffea0001836008 ffff888016c41c80
raw: ffff888060e13c00 000000000010000e 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4191, ts 66819771140, free_ts 24353049653
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
 ___slab_alloc+0x807/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x13d/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:4963
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:356 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x22c/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:427
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1162 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:964 [inline]
 inet6_netconf_notify_devconf+0x10b/0x1d0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:583
 __addrconf_sysctl_register+0x375/0x3e0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7131
 addrconf_sysctl_register+0x15c/0x1b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7168
 ipv6_add_dev+0xbfb/0x11a0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:454
 addrconf_notify+0x66f/0xf20 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3586
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2074 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2088 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x12a8/0x1720 net/core/dev.c:10454
 veth_newlink+0x8ca/0xe20 drivers/net/veth.c:1716
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3538 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x139e/0x1920 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3586
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7f1/0xf10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5698
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_contig_range+0x96/0xf0 mm/page_alloc.c:9428
 destroy_args+0xef/0xa00 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1018
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x321/0x380 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1336
 do_one_initcall+0x272/0x730 init/main.c:1276
 do_initcall_level+0x13d/0x1f0 init/main.c:1349
 do_initcalls+0x4b/0x90 init/main.c:1365
 kernel_init_freeable+0x3d5/0x560 init/main.c:1589
 kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1480
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888060e12b00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888060e12b80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888060e12c00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff888060e12c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888060e12d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/22 15:36 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e e12281bd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
2026/09/22 14:36 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e e12281bd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
2026/09/18 12:07 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
2026/09/17 14:01 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 95928915 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
2026/09/15 00:13 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 81a27d1a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
2026/08/21 08:13 linux-5.15.y 0eb903b5b519 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
2026/08/04 23:31 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
2026/08/04 18:41 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
2026/07/27 22:55 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 aae9036b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.