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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/01 00:55
Subsystems: bridge
Labels: prio:high actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+128e9f5a0f85a51215b1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d15h, last: 5d15h
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93d19b88 moderation Actionable: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in br_handle_frame 2026/08/01 00:29 2026/08/01 00:29 2026/08/01 00:54 7664cf44

			
		
56717d8e assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in br_handle_frame 2026/07/31 00:54 2026/07/31 00:54 2026/07/31 01:07 aaffb173

			
		
06ba5fc3 assessment-security 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in br_handle_frame 2026/07/29 00:55 2026/07/29 00:55 2026/07/29 00:59 7be3c40b
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[syzbot] [bridge?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in br_handle_frame 0 (1) 2026/08/01 00:55

Sample crash report:
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:1)
bridge0: received packet on bridge_slave_1 with own address as source address (addr:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:0c, vlan:1)
ip6_tunnel: ip6tnl2 xmit: Local address not yet configured!
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in is_multicast_ether_addr include/linux/etherdevice.h:133 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in is_valid_ether_addr include/linux/etherdevice.h:209 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in br_handle_frame+0xcfb/0x1510 net/bridge/br_input.c:349
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88807c476008 by task kworker/R-bat_e/3227

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 3227 Comm: kworker/R-bat_e Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Workqueue: bat_events batadv_tt_purge
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 is_multicast_ether_addr include/linux/etherdevice.h:133 [inline]
 is_valid_ether_addr include/linux/etherdevice.h:209 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0xcfb/0x1510 net/bridge/br_input.c:349
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x989/0x30b0 net/core/dev.c:6102
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6213 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6328 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x706/0x1860 net/core/dev.c:6679
 __napi_poll+0xaa/0x330 net/core/dev.c:7738
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7801 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x61d/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:7958
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]
 batadv_tt_local_purge+0x2c1/0x340 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:1366
 batadv_tt_purge+0x35/0xa10 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:3565
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 rescuer_thread+0x7b6/0x10b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3629
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5627:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5362 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x4c3/0x730 mm/slub.c:5497
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:637 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x2bd/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:715
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
 mld_newpack+0x165/0xcb0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1790
 add_grhead net/ipv6/mcast.c:1901 [inline]
 add_grec+0x119f/0x19d0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2040
 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2126 [inline]
 mld_ifc_work+0x30e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2711
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 3227:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2705 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6405 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x640 mm/slub.c:6720
 skb_kfree_head net/core/skbuff.c:1077 [inline]
 skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1089 [inline]
 pskb_expand_head+0x469/0x13a0 net/core/skbuff.c:2338
 netif_skb_check_for_xdp net/core/dev.c:5580 [inline]
 netif_receive_generic_xdp net/core/dev.c:5611 [inline]
 do_xdp_generic+0x9a5/0x12d0 net/core/dev.c:5679
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x10e0/0x30b0 net/core/dev.c:6025
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6213 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6328 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6414 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb+0x1fe/0xbf0 net/core/dev.c:6473
 NF_HOOK+0xa4/0x3a0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x1192/0x1990 net/bridge/br_input.c:-1
 br_nf_hook_thresh+0x3dd/0x4c0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c:-1
 br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x90c/0xc40 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:-1
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:325 [inline]
 br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0x382/0x6f0 net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c:183
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:165 [inline]
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:291 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x127f/0x1510 net/bridge/br_input.c:442
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0x989/0x30b0 net/core/dev.c:6102
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6213 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6328 [inline]
 process_backlog+0x706/0x1860 net/core/dev.c:6679
 __napi_poll+0xaa/0x330 net/core/dev.c:7738
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7801 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x61d/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:7958
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]
 batadv_tt_local_purge+0x2c1/0x340 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:1366
 batadv_tt_purge+0x35/0xa10 net/batman-adv/translation-table.c:3565
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 rescuer_thread+0x7b6/0x10b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3629
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807c476000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff88807c476000, ffff88807c476800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88807c472000 pfn:0x7c470
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801b005000 ffffea0001f06210 ffffea00013ad810
raw: ffff88807c472000 0000000800080001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801b005000 ffffea0001f06210 ffffea00013ad810
head: ffff88807c472000 0000000800080001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 29164, tgid 29161 (syz.4.10629), ts 619315175671, free_ts 619310279727
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x21fa/0x2270 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3294 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x79/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:3408
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3454 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7338
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2832 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2bf/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:4703
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4801 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4933 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5361 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x557/0x730 mm/slub.c:5497
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:637 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x2bd/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:715
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xc6/0x760 net/core/skbuff.c:6769
 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x878/0x990 net/core/sock.c:3013
 sock_alloc_send_skb include/net/sock.h:1907 [inline]
 llc_ui_sendmsg+0x459/0xe30 net/llc/af_llc.c:968
 sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x13a/0x180 net/socket.c:775
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg+0x1ca/0x2d0 net/socket.c:813
 splice_to_socket+0xb5e/0x12a0 fs/splice.c:884
 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:936 [inline]
 direct_splice_actor+0x101/0x160 fs/splice.c:1159
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x57b/0xcb0 fs/splice.c:1103
page last free pid 29163 tgid 29158 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc1e/0xd10 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2645 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x78b/0x10a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2897
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:735
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:752
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807c475f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807c475f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88807c476000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88807c476080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807c476100: 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
2026/07/27 14:49 net-next 04026c998c24 4cb2b096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in br_handle_frame
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.