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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready (4)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/04/01 00:49
Subsystems: bpf net
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Reported-by: syzbot+2184232f07e3677fbaef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d02h, last: 2d02h
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH v1 bpf] sockmap: Fix use-after-free of sk->sk_socket in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready(). 2 (2) 2026/04/01 11:13
[syzbot] [bpf?] [net?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready (4) 0 (1) 2026/04/01 00:49
Similar bugs (14)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready (2) net bpf 19 2 478d 504d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/03 12:37
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready bpf net 19 1 668d 664d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/31 11:03
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready (3) bpf net 19 5 226d 344d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/25 19:43
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready 19 21 358d 575d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/06 21:52
upstream general protection fault in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready net 2 2 1030d 1035d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/09/14 09:29
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready bpf net 10 C unreliable 15 759d 879d 25/29 fixed on 2024/04/02 10:57
android-5-15 general protection fault in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready origin:lts 19 C 91 3h47m 73d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/17 21:04
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready 19 1 591d 591d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/26 04:55
linux-5.15 general protection fault in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready 2 6 1d21h 50d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/02/09 23:20
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready 19 2 507d 540d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/02/08 01:10
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready (2) 19 1 178d 178d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/03 06:43
android-6-1 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready origin:upstream missing-backport 10 C 204 641d 778d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/07 14:49
linux-6.1 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready origin:upstream 10 C done 1 777d 777d 3/3 fixed on 2024/03/18 12:46
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready (3) 19 1 77d 77d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/01/13 17:12

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0xec/0x590 net/core/skmsg.c:1278
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880594da860 by task syz.4.1842/11013

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 11013 Comm: syz.4.1842 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 sk_psock_verdict_data_ready+0xec/0x590 net/core/skmsg.c:1278
 unix_stream_sendmsg+0x8a3/0xe80 net/unix/af_unix.c:2482
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:721 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:736 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x972/0x9f0 net/socket.c:2585
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2639
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2671 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2676 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2674
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7facf899c819
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:00007facf9827028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007facf8c15fa0 RCX: 00007facf899c819
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007facf8a32c91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007facf8c16038 R14: 00007facf8c15fa0 R15: 00007ffd41b01c78
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 11013:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4538 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x2b8/0x640 mm/slub.c:4885
 sock_alloc_inode+0x28/0xc0 net/socket.c:316
 alloc_inode+0x6a/0x1b0 fs/inode.c:347
 new_inode_pseudo include/linux/fs.h:3003 [inline]
 sock_alloc net/socket.c:631 [inline]
 __sock_create+0x12d/0x9d0 net/socket.c:1562
 sock_create net/socket.c:1656 [inline]
 __sys_socketpair+0x1c4/0x560 net/socket.c:1803
 __do_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1856 [inline]
 __se_sys_socketpair net/socket.c:1853 [inline]
 __x64_sys_socketpair+0x9b/0xb0 net/socket.c:1853
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 15:
 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:2685 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x187/0x630 mm/slub.c:6295
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x7cd/0x1070 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:622
 run_ksoftirqd+0x36/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:1063
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x541/0xa50 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3131 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3251
 destroy_inode fs/inode.c:402 [inline]
 evict+0x95b/0xb10 fs/inode.c:870
 __dentry_kill+0x1a2/0x5e0 fs/dcache.c:670
 finish_dput+0xc9/0x480 fs/dcache.c:879
 __fput+0x691/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:477
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:67 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xed/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880594da840
 which belongs to the cache sock_inode_cache of size 1344
The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of
 freed 1344-byte region [ffff8880594da840, ffff8880594dad80)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x594d8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff8880594dfe81
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff888140af9dc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800160016 00000000f5000000 ffff8880594dfe81
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff888140af9dc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800160016 00000000f5000000 ffff8880594dfe81
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0001653601 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 Reclaimable, gfp_mask 0xd20d0(__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5827, tgid 5827 (syz-executor), ts 157169026983, free_ts 137999783832
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24dc/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3292 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3481
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x331/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2e6/0x730 mm/slub.c:4615
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4717 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4851 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x37c/0x640 mm/slub.c:4885
 sock_alloc_inode+0x28/0xc0 net/socket.c:316
 alloc_inode+0x6a/0x1b0 fs/inode.c:347
 new_inode_pseudo include/linux/fs.h:3003 [inline]
 sock_alloc net/socket.c:631 [inline]
 __sock_create+0x12d/0x9d0 net/socket.c:1562
 sock_create net/socket.c:1656 [inline]
 __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1693 [inline]
 __sys_socket+0xd6/0x1b0 net/socket.c:1740
 __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1754 [inline]
 __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1752 [inline]
 __x64_sys_socket+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1752
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 7484 tgid 7484 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc2b/0xdb0 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
 __slab_free+0x263/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:5573
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4538 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x650 mm/slub.c:4873
 vm_area_alloc+0x24/0x140 mm/vma_init.c:32
 __mmap_new_vma mm/vma.c:2517 [inline]
 __mmap_region mm/vma.c:2759 [inline]
 mmap_region+0x10eb/0x2240 mm/vma.c:2837
 do_mmap+0xc39/0x10c0 mm/mmap.c:559
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x2c9/0x4f0 mm/util.c:581
 elf_map fs/binfmt_elf.c:400 [inline]
 elf_load+0x248/0x6a0 fs/binfmt_elf.c:423
 load_elf_interp+0x4ce/0xb60 fs/binfmt_elf.c:690
 load_elf_binary+0x1b2f/0x2980 fs/binfmt_elf.c:1255
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1664 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1696 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0x93d/0x1460 fs/exec.c:1748
 kernel_execve+0x844/0x930 fs/exec.c:1892
 call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x20f/0x360 kernel/umh.c:109

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880594da700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880594da780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8880594da800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                       ^
 ffff8880594da880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880594da900: 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
2026/03/30 12:42 net-next cf0d9080c6f7 458630d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sk_psock_verdict_data_ready
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.