KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/04/07 03:09
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+27fa75812d9e853988f1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 110d, last: 106d
▶ ▼ Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/04/07 linux-6.1.y (ToT) 1989cd3d56e2 C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/07 upstream (ToT) 3036cd0d3328 C Didn't crash
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume pm input usb 19 C 21 2496d 2549d 0/29 closed as dup on 2019/08/12 14:27
upstream KASAN: null-ptr-deref Write in __pm_runtime_resume pm 12 C done 108 1614d 1793d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/08 16:11
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume origin:lts-only 19 syz error 4 105d 107d 0/2 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/04/09 06:50
upstream general protection fault in __pm_runtime_resume (2) pm 2 C error 7 1586d 1596d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
▶ ▼ Fix bisection attempts (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/05/10 02:12 12m fix candidate upstream error job log
2026/04/07 21:03 1m fix candidate upstream error job log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __pm_runtime_resume+0x148/0x170 drivers/base/power/runtime.c:1163
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88805d032988 by task syz.0.17/4469

CPU: 1 PID: 4469 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 __pm_runtime_resume+0x148/0x170 drivers/base/power/runtime.c:1163
 pm_runtime_get_sync include/linux/pm_runtime.h:435 [inline]
 ethnl_ops_begin+0x59/0x1f0 net/ethtool/netlink.c:41
 module_prepare_data+0x71/0x110 net/ethtool/module.c:48
 ethnl_default_doit+0x4c6/0xb40 net/ethtool/netlink.c:384
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22a/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:756
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:833 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x604/0x790 net/netlink/genetlink.c:850
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:861
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74d/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ad/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1872
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5be/0x970 net/socket.c:2518
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a2/0x360 net/socket.c:2572
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2601 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2610 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x1bb/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2608
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f9f96b9c819
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:00007f9f97ab8028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9f96e16090 RCX: 00007f9f96b9c819
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000200 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f9f96c32c91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9f96e16128 R14: 00007f9f96e16090 R15: 00007ffe9d8faca8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4373:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:211 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:936 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0xb0/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:943
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:589 [inline]
 kvmalloc_node+0x6c/0x180 mm/util.c:581
 kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:716 [inline]
 kvzalloc include/linux/slab.h:724 [inline]
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0x84/0xf00 net/core/dev.c:10757
 rtnl_create_link+0x2fb/0xb80 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3295
 veth_newlink+0x307/0xc80 drivers/net/veth.c:1710
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3422 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1542/0x2080 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x87c/0xfc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6150
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74d/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ad/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1872
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x497/0x650 net/socket.c:2152
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2164 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2160 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2160
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 4468:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1755
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3700
 device_release+0x92/0x1c0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:681 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:712 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x21d/0x460 lib/kobject.c:729
 netdev_run_todo+0xcb3/0xdb0 net/core/dev.c:10547
 rtnl_unlock net/core/rtnetlink.c:147 [inline]
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xad6/0xfc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6151
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74d/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ad/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1872
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5be/0x970 net/socket.c:2518
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a2/0x360 net/socket.c:2572
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2601 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2610 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg+0x1bb/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2608
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805d032000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 2440 bytes inside of
 4096-byte region [ffff88805d032000, ffff88805d033000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001740c00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5d030
head:ffffea0001740c00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
memcg:ffff8880557362c1
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff88801744c280
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000001ffffffff ffff8880557362c1
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d60c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 4373, tgid 4373 (syz-executor), ts 102446395612, free_ts 98142487287
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2559
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2566 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a1e/0x1ab0 mm/page_alloc.c:4357
 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5657
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1799
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1944 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1997
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a0/0x260 mm/slub.c:3398
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0xa0/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:943
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:589 [inline]
 kvmalloc_node+0x6c/0x180 mm/util.c:581
 kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:716 [inline]
 kvzalloc include/linux/slab.h:724 [inline]
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0x84/0xf00 net/core/dev.c:10757
 rtnl_create_link+0x2fb/0xb80 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3295
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3412 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1452/0x2080 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x87c/0xfc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6150
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74d/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ad/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1872
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1486 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1536 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3413
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3508
 __vunmap+0x856/0xa00 mm/vmalloc.c:2726
 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:437 [inline]
 kcov_close+0x27/0x50 kernel/kcov.c:533
 __fput+0x22c/0x920 fs/file_table.c:320
 task_work_run+0x1d0/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:203
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:39 [inline]
 do_exit+0x982/0x2480 kernel/exit.c:880
 do_group_exit+0x217/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1022
 get_signal+0x1272/0x1350 kernel/signal.c:2871
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc4/0x1350 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:871
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:292 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:303
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805d032880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805d032900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88805d032980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88805d032a00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805d032a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (12):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/07 07:09 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/07 05:35 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/07 04:16 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/07 08:13 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/11 00:41 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/11 00:37 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/10 08:10 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/09 15:29 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/07 03:11 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/07 03:09 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/09 09:49 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
2026/04/09 09:46 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pm_runtime_resume
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.