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

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/12/22 02:03
Subsystems: usb
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Reported-by: syzbot+549021d06a2b557303bd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 27d, last: 14d
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[syzbot] [usb?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vhci_tx_loop 0 (1) 2025/12/22 02:03
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in vhci_tx_loop usb 2 1 381d 377d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/28 12:39
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in vhci_tx_loop 19 1 288d 288d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/09 17:53

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vhci_send_cmd_submit drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_tx.c:69 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vhci_tx_loop+0x38e/0x1a80 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_tx.c:241
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805b8309a0 by task vhci_tx/30838

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 30838 Comm: vhci_tx Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 vhci_send_cmd_submit drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_tx.c:69 [inline]
 vhci_tx_loop+0x38e/0x1a80 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_tx.c:241
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 9958:
 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]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1fb/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5776
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 vhci_tx_urb drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:674 [inline]
 vhci_urb_enqueue+0x5cd/0xe30 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:829
 usb_hcd_submit_urb+0x323/0x1b60 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1546
 usb_start_wait_urb+0x115/0x4f0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:59
 usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:103 [inline]
 usb_control_msg+0x232/0x3e0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:154
 get_bMaxPacketSize0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:4851 [inline]
 hub_port_init+0xb1d/0x28d0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5047
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5496 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x25b3/0x4f30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Freed by task 30837:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 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:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
 kfree+0x1bd/0x900 mm/slub.c:6878
 pickup_urb_and_free_priv+0x225/0x400 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c:46
 vhci_recv_ret_submit drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c:65 [inline]
 vhci_rx_pdu drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c:242 [inline]
 vhci_rx_loop+0x39f/0x9d0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c:265
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805b830980
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-64 of size 64
The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of
 freed 64-byte region [ffff88805b830980, ffff88805b8309c0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5b830
flags: 0x80000000000000(node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000000 ffff88813ff268c0 ffffea0000c33bc0 dead000000000004
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000200020 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 5805, tgid 5805 (syz-executor), ts 102265955235, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xb10/0x13e0 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4779
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x2bf/0x810 mm/slub.c:5764
 kmemdup_noprof+0x2b/0x70 mm/util.c:138
 kmemdup_noprof include/linux/fortify-string.h:765 [inline]
 mpls_dev_sysctl_register+0xbd/0x270 net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1422
 mpls_add_dev net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1490 [inline]
 mpls_dev_notify+0x394/0xd10 net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1635
 notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x15d2/0x1a80 net/core/dev.c:11431
 register_netdev+0x40/0x60 net/core/dev.c:11509
 vti6_init_net+0x238/0x370 net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c:1158
 ops_init+0x35c/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805b830880: 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805b830900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88805b830980: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                               ^
 ffff88805b830a00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805b830a80: 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/31 01:00 upstream dbf8fe85a16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vhci_tx_loop
2025/12/17 19:07 upstream ea1013c15392 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vhci_tx_loop
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.