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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in handle_tx

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/26 15:44
Reported-by: syzbot+0bdaaf73a94034b84548@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d22h, last: 4d22h
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in handle_tx (2) net 19 C 1086 19d 741d 26/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/02/21 10:58
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in handle_tx net 19 1 948d 944d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/27 13:43
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in handle_tx net 19 15 1481d 1593d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/05/12 13:20
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in handle_tx 19 2 123d 173d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/08 05:05
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in handle_tx (2) net 19 1 1116d 1112d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/11 18:22
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in handle_tx 19 1 491d 491d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/05 09:49
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in handle_tx (2) 19 20 3d23h 365d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/03/02 20:36

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in handle_tx+0x1e6/0x610 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:236
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888053c09020 by task aoe_tx0/1286

CPU: 0 PID: 1286 Comm: aoe_tx0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 handle_tx+0x1e6/0x610 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:236
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4943 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4957 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3632 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x246/0x740 net/core/dev.c:3648
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1ac2/0x36b0 net/core/dev.c:4438
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3113 [inline]
 tx+0x6b/0x180 drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:63
 kthread+0x1d2/0x3b0 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1241
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 8371:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 alloc_tty_struct+0xa7/0x790 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3092
 tty_init_dev+0x59/0x4c0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1407
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2080 [inline]
 tty_open+0x866/0xd80 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
 chrdev_open+0x5cc/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x8c6/0x1500 fs/open.c:929
 do_open fs/namei.c:3640 [inline]
 path_openat+0x27f1/0x3230 fs/namei.c:3797
 do_filp_open+0x1f5/0x430 fs/namei.c:3824
 do_sys_openat2+0x134/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1421
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1447
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 5807:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:3843
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 insert_work+0x3d/0x310 kernel/workqueue.c:1651
 __queue_work+0xc39/0x1020 kernel/workqueue.c:1800
 queue_work_on+0x128/0x1f0 kernel/workqueue.c:1835
 tty_release_struct+0xb8/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1699
 tty_release+0xc79/0x1600 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1859
 __fput+0x234/0x970 fs/file_table.c:384
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:245
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0x95a/0x2460 kernel/exit.c:883
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1024
 get_signal+0x12fc/0x13f0 kernel/signal.c:2902
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc2/0x800 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:310
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Second to last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 kvfree_call_rcu+0xee/0x790 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3452
 drop_sysctl_table+0x394/0x540 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1515
 unregister_sysctl_table+0x41/0x60 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1536
 __devinet_sysctl_unregister net/ipv4/devinet.c:2656 [inline]
 devinet_sysctl_unregister net/ipv4/devinet.c:2684 [inline]
 inetdev_destroy net/ipv4/devinet.c:330 [inline]
 inetdev_event+0x79a/0x1630 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1636
 notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x380 kernel/notifier.c:93
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2077 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2091 [inline]
 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x100d/0x1900 net/core/dev.c:11099
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3548 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3737 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1d5b/0x20a0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3750
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x869/0xfa0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6472
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x241/0x4d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2545
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x751/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8d0/0xbf0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5ba/0x960 net/socket.c:2594
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a6/0x360 net/socket.c:2648
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2677 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2686 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x1c2/0x2b0 net/socket.c:2684
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888053c09000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888053c09000, ffff888053c09800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00014f0200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x53c08
head:ffffea00014f0200 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff8880301f6101
anon flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017c4f3c0 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000001ffffffff ffff8880301f6101
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 6544, tgid 6542 (syz.0.156), ts 175829191651, free_ts 175369712766
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1581
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1588 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1951/0x19e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3220
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4486
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5d/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x19e/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xa2/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1027
 kmemdup+0x2b/0x70 mm/util.c:131
 kmemdup include/linux/fortify-string.h:779 [inline]
 neigh_sysctl_register+0xaf/0xac0 net/core/neighbour.c:3807
 devinet_sysctl_register+0xa8/0x1f0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2670
 inetdev_init+0x2b4/0x4f0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:287
 inetdev_event+0x324/0x1630 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1568
 notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x380 kernel/notifier.c:93
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2077 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2091 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x16a5/0x1bb0 net/core/dev.c:10326
 macvlan_common_newlink+0x121f/0x19d0 drivers/net/macvlan.c:1551
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1181 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7b2/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2365
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2458
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2127 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1cf/0x210 mm/slub.c:2667
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2743
 __slab_free+0x319/0x400 mm/slub.c:3700
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4b0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x13a/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa4/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe3/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_number_perm+0x248/0x620 security/tomoyo/file.c:723
 security_file_ioctl+0x70/0xa0 security/security.c:2647
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:865 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x48/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888053c08f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888053c08f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888053c09000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                               ^
 ffff888053c09080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888053c09100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/26 15:44 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e ffa54287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in handle_tx
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.