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

Status: upstream: reported on 2024/12/09 11:28
Subsystems: serial
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Reported-by: syzbot+22c0e08c1e0f773fbfaa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 307d, last: 38d
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[syzbot] [serial?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in uart_write_room 0 (1) 2024/12/09 11:28

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in uart_write_room+0x85e/0x940 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:643
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88803b60e5f8 by task aoe_tx0/1423

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1423 Comm: aoe_tx0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 uart_write_room+0x85e/0x940 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:643
 tty_write_room+0x66/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:69
 handle_tx+0x14f/0x630 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:212
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5222 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5231 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3839 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x97/0x740 net/core/dev.c:3855
 __dev_queue_xmit+0xa46/0x4490 net/core/dev.c:4725
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3361 [inline]
 tx+0xcc/0x190 drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:62
 kthread+0x1e4/0x3e0 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1241
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x5d7/0x6f0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 7862:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:388 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:405
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 alloc_tty_struct+0x96/0x8c0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3102
 tty_init_dev.part.0+0x1e/0x500 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1400
 tty_init_dev include/linux/err.h:70 [inline]
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2073 [inline]
 tty_open+0xa50/0xf90 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120
 chrdev_open+0x234/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x97f/0x1530 fs/open.c:965
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1095
 do_open fs/namei.c:3887 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1de4/0x2cb0 fs/namei.c:4046
 do_filp_open+0x20b/0x470 fs/namei.c:4073
 do_sys_openat2+0x11b/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1435
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1450 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1466 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1461 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x174/0x210 fs/open.c:1461
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5966:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:243 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x60/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:275
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2417 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4680 [inline]
 kfree+0x2b4/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:4879
 process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3236
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x5d7/0x6f0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xa7/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:548
 insert_work+0x36/0x230 kernel/workqueue.c:2184
 __queue_work+0x97e/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2339
 queue_work_on+0x1a4/0x1f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2390
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 tty_kref_put drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1557 [inline]
 tty_kref_put drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1554 [inline]
 release_tty+0x4de/0x5d0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1593
 tty_release_struct+0xb7/0xe0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1692
 tty_release+0xe2d/0x1430 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1852
 __fput+0x402/0xb70 fs/file_table.c:468
 task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x86f/0x2bf0 kernel/exit.c:961
 do_group_exit+0xd3/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1102
 get_signal+0x2673/0x26d0 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x8f/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x84/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:40
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3f6/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88803b60e000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1528 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff88803b60e000, ffff88803b60e800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x3b608
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888054438d81
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b84c140 ffffea0001624e00 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 ffff888054438d81
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b84c140 ffffea0001624e00 dead000000000002
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 ffff888054438d81
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0000ed8201 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 5977, tgid 5977 (syz-executor), ts 61702028947, free_ts 61687600934
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c0/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1851
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x132b/0x38e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x261/0x23f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x1fb/0x550 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2487 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2655 [inline]
 new_slab+0x247/0x330 mm/slub.c:2709
 ___slab_alloc+0xcf2/0x1740 mm/slub.c:3891
 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x56/0xb0 mm/slub.c:3981
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4056 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4217 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x2f2/0x510 mm/slub.c:4377
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 __register_sysctl_table+0xb3/0x1900 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1379
 __devinet_sysctl_register+0x1b9/0x360 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2678
 devinet_sysctl_register net/ipv4/devinet.c:2718 [inline]
 devinet_sysctl_register+0x17b/0x200 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2708
 inetdev_init+0x2b8/0x5a0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:291
 inetdev_event+0xc5f/0x18a0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1591
 notifier_call_chain+0xbc/0x410 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xbe/0x140 net/core/dev.c:2229
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2267 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2281 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x182e/0x2270 net/core/dev.c:11244
page last free pid 5964 tgid 5964 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x7d5/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2895
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x4d/0x120 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x195/0x1e0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:340
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4180 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4229 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1f1/0x3e0 mm/slub.c:4391
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 kobject_uevent_env+0x265/0x1870 lib/kobject_uevent.c:540
 __kobject_del+0x168/0x1f0 lib/kobject.c:601
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:680 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x327/0x5a0 lib/kobject.c:737
 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x4e5/0x720 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2071
 netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0x151/0x870 net/core/dev.c:3183
 veth_init_queues+0xe1/0x190 drivers/net/veth.c:1793
 veth_newlink+0x49c/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1896
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3825 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3942 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0xc45/0x2000 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4057
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95b/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6946
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x155/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x5aa/0x870 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88803b60e480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803b60e500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88803b60e580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                                ^
 ffff88803b60e600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803b60e680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/29 15:38 upstream 07d9df80082b 3e1beec6 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in uart_write_room
2025/06/08 11:27 upstream 8630c59e9936 4826c28e .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in uart_write_room
2025/05/20 11:58 upstream a5806cd506af b47f9e02 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in uart_write_room
2024/12/15 20:48 upstream 2d8308bf5b67 7cbfbb3a .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in uart_write_room
2025/03/25 01:42 upstream 38fec10eb60d 875573af .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in uart_write_room
2024/12/03 18:57 upstream ceb8bf2ceaa7 330db277 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in uart_write_room
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.