KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in sched_show_task (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/09/10 08:38
Subsystems: mm
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Reported-by: syzbot+1802b160d708716c9c98@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d02h, last: 4d02h
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55fe8fdc assessment-security 💥 KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in sched_show_task (2) 2026/09/09 01:14 2026/09/09 01:14 2026/09/09 01:14 243b72f1
1d2a9a63 assessment-security 💥 KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in sched_show_task (2) 2026/09/08 01:10 2026/09/08 01:10 2026/09/08 01:10 680aa3e1
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in sched_show_task prio:high input usb serial 17 syz, C 166 246d 1085d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2026/07/31 14:07

Sample crash report:
task:syz.1.97        state:R  running task     stack:0     pid:5329  tgid:5329  ppid:3215   task_flags:0x400840 flags:0x0000000a
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff865a0e70>] context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5520 [inline]
[<ffffffff865a0e70>] __schedule+0x1de4/0x4ff0 kernel/sched/core.c:7270
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BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in walk_stackframe+0x512/0x56a arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c:88
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8f8002006950 by task oom_reaper/33

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 33 Comm: oom_reaper Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8007e614>] dump_backtrace+0x2e/0x3c arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c:149
[<ffffffff80003112>] show_stack+0x30/0x3c arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c:155
[<ffffffff800630cc>] __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
[<ffffffff800630cc>] dump_stack_lvl+0x114/0x1aa lib/dump_stack.c:120
[<ffffffff8000e264>] print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
[<ffffffff8000e264>] print_report+0x27a/0x592 mm/kasan/report.c:482
[<ffffffff80bf8576>] kasan_report+0xf0/0x26c mm/kasan/report.c:595
[<ffffffff80bfa226>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x12/0x1a mm/kasan/report_generic.c:381
[<ffffffff8007e0d0>] walk_stackframe+0x512/0x56a arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c:88
[<ffffffff8007e614>] dump_backtrace+0x2e/0x3c arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c:149
[<ffffffff80003112>] show_stack+0x30/0x3c arch/riscv/kernel/stacktrace.c:155
[<ffffffff802239b8>] sched_show_task kernel/sched/core.c:8220 [inline]
[<ffffffff802239b8>] sched_show_task+0x414/0x5ea kernel/sched/core.c:8195
[<ffffffff809204e6>] oom_reap_task mm/oom_kill.c:618 [inline]
[<ffffffff809204e6>] oom_reaper+0xd12/0x105e mm/oom_kill.c:650
[<ffffffff801f6df4>] kthread+0x312/0x438 kernel/kthread.c:436
[<ffffffff8006c352>] ret_from_fork_kernel+0x94/0xe74 arch/riscv/kernel/process.c:230
[<ffffffff865c0e42>] ret_from_fork_kernel_asm+0x16/0x18 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S:368

The buggy address belongs to a 8-page vmalloc region starting at 0xffff8f8002000000 allocated at kernel_clone+0x198/0xf7c kernel/fork.c:2772
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0xb1aa6
memcg:ffffaf80202e7c02
flags: 0x0(node=0|zone=0)
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff8d8002c6a988 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff ffffaf80202e7c02
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x29c2(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_HIGHMEM|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_ZERO), pid 3215, tgid 3215 (syz-executor), ts 3137427627400, free_ts 3137215226500
 __set_page_owner+0x92/0x4b0 mm/page_owner.c:341
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xe4/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x914/0x3950 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x224/0x2e58 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x1f0/0x59c mm/mempolicy.c:2490
 alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x156/0x2ce mm/mempolicy.c:2561
 alloc_pages_noprof+0x20/0x140 mm/mempolicy.c:2581
 vm_area_alloc_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3689 [inline]
 __vmalloc_area_node mm/vmalloc.c:3914 [inline]
 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x103e/0x1b34 mm/vmalloc.c:4104
 __vmalloc_node_noprof+0xfc/0x132 mm/vmalloc.c:4165
 alloc_thread_stack_node kernel/fork.c:359 [inline]
 dup_task_struct kernel/fork.c:930 [inline]
 copy_process+0x762/0x81b6 kernel/fork.c:2139
 kernel_clone+0x198/0xf7c kernel/fork.c:2772
 __do_sys_clone+0xfe/0x13e kernel/fork.c:2914
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2882 [inline]
 __riscv_sys_clone+0xa0/0x10e kernel/fork.c:2882
 syscall_handler+0x92/0x114 arch/riscv/include/asm/syscall.h:112
 do_trap_ecall_u+0x4ca/0x658 arch/riscv/kernel/traps.c:341
 handle_exception+0x168/0x174 arch/riscv/kernel/entry.S:237
page last free pid 3215 tgid 3215 stack trace:
 __reset_page_owner+0x76/0x1bc mm/page_owner.c:320
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x6b2/0x136e mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 free_frozen_pages+0xe/0x16 mm/page_alloc.c:2988
 __free_slab+0xda/0x250 mm/slub.c:3441
 free_slab+0x28/0x16c mm/slub.c:3475
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3481 [inline]
 __slab_free+0x23c/0x2f8 mm/slub.c:5741
 ___cache_free+0x94/0xac mm/slub.c:6449
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x64/0x134 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x152/0x1b4 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x5c/0x82 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4584 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4917 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5333 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x274/0x9a4 mm/slub.c:6905
 xt_alloc_table_info+0x5a/0xbc net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1286
 do_replace+0x1c4/0x478 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1124
 do_ip6t_set_ctl+0x410/0x9b6 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1643
 nf_setsockopt+0x78/0xda net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:101
 ipv6_setsockopt+0x126/0x158 net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c:970

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8f8002006800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff8f8002006880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff8f8002006900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 00 f3 f3
                                                 ^
 ffff8f8002006980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff8f8002006a00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/06 08:36 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux.git for-next 77ae27fd98f3 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu2-riscv64 KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds Read in sched_show_task
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.