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KASAN: use-after-free Read in nr_transmit_buffer

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/05/26 03:56
Reported-by: syzbot+383ea139753376e45507@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 69d, last: 33d

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:72 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in refcount_read include/linux/refcount.h:147 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in skb_unref include/linux/skbuff.h:1203 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kfree_skb_reason+0x3c/0x370 net/core/skbuff.c:887
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88801cf2cea4 by task syz.1.2/4400

CPU: 0 PID: 4400 Comm: syz.1.2 Not tainted 6.1.142-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x22e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:427
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:531
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x27b/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:72 [inline]
 atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline]
 refcount_read include/linux/refcount.h:147 [inline]
 skb_unref include/linux/skbuff.h:1203 [inline]
 kfree_skb_reason+0x3c/0x370 net/core/skbuff.c:887
 kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1220 [inline]
 nr_transmit_buffer+0x112/0x1a0 net/netrom/nr_out.c:210
 nr_establish_data_link+0x5e/0xb0 net/netrom/nr_out.c:227
 nr_connect+0x6e2/0xde0 net/netrom/af_netrom.c:723
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2011 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x389/0x410 net/socket.c:2028
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2038 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2035 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x76/0x80 net/socket.c:2035
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f062158e929
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f0622467038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f06217b6080 RCX: 00007f062158e929
RDX: 0000000000000048 RSI: 0000200000000300 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007f0621610b39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f06217b6080 R15: 00007fff15941538
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4400:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6b/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:328
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4b/0x480 mm/slab.h:737
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3398 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x14d/0x320 mm/slub.c:3443
 __alloc_skb+0xfc/0x7e0 net/core/skbuff.c:505
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1271 [inline]
 nr_write_internal+0xca/0xcb0 net/netrom/nr_subr.c:144
 nr_establish_data_link+0x5e/0xb0 net/netrom/nr_out.c:227
 nr_connect+0x6e2/0xde0 net/netrom/af_netrom.c:723
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2011 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x389/0x410 net/socket.c:2028
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2038 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2035 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x76/0x80 net/socket.c:2035
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 4400:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:236
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1724 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1750
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3661 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0xf7/0x290 mm/slub.c:3683
 kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1220 [inline]
 nr_route_frame+0x45e/0x7d0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:820
 nr_transmit_buffer+0xe3/0x1a0 net/netrom/nr_out.c:209
 nr_establish_data_link+0x5e/0xb0 net/netrom/nr_out.c:227
 nr_connect+0x6e2/0xde0 net/netrom/af_netrom.c:723
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2011 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x389/0x410 net/socket.c:2028
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2038 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2035 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x76/0x80 net/socket.c:2035
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88801cf2cdc0
 which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 240
The buggy address is located 228 bytes inside of
 240-byte region [ffff88801cf2cdc0, ffff88801cf2ceb0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea000073cb00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1cf2c
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff888141a59000
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000000c000c 00000001ffffffff 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 0x112a20(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 11, tgid 11 (kworker/u4:1), ts 65914207720, free_ts 65883549425
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2532
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2539 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a26/0x1ac0 mm/page_alloc.c:4328
 __alloc_pages+0x1df/0x4e0 mm/page_alloc.c:5614
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1794
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1939 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1992
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1220 mm/slub.c:3180
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3279 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3364 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e5/0x320 mm/slub.c:3443
 __alloc_skb+0xfc/0x7e0 net/core/skbuff.c:505
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1271 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:748 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:805 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x28f/0xaf0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:851
 process_one_work+0x898/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1459 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1509 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3384
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3479
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2031 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2037 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1a5/0x200 mm/slub.c:2586
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2662
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:168 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x76/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:187
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x144/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:294
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x1e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:305
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4b/0x480 mm/slab.h:737
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3398 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x14d/0x320 mm/slub.c:3443
 __alloc_skb+0xfc/0x7e0 net/core/skbuff.c:505
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1271 [inline]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xa7/0x710 net/core/skbuff.c:6162
 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x853/0x980 net/core/sock.c:2750
 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x592/0x16c0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1937
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x44f/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2153
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2165 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2161 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2161
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88801cf2cd80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88801cf2ce00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88801cf2ce80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                               ^
 ffff88801cf2cf00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88801cf2cf80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/01 02:20 linux-6.1.y 7e69c33e4858 6e83b42d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in nr_transmit_buffer
2025/05/26 03:55 linux-6.1.y da3c5173c55f 2d4582d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in nr_transmit_buffer
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.