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KFENCE: invalid free in gid_table_release_one

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/31 19:30
Subsystems: rdma
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Reported-by: syzbot+4334f9a250019c1b79b4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d11h, last: now
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] RDMA/cache: fix invalid-free of flex-array data_vec in release_gid_table 1 (1) 2026/04/01 01:28
[syzbot] [rdma?] KFENCE: invalid free in gid_table_release_one 0 (3) 2026/04/01 01:00
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/01 01:00 23m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next OK log

Sample crash report:
smbdirect: ib_dev[syz2] removed
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in release_gid_table drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:804 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one+0x384/0x470 drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:877
Free of addr ffff88802bcdb6d8 by task kworker/u8:2/35

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 35 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
Workqueue: ib-unreg-wq ib_unregister_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report_invalid_free+0xea/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:557
 check_slab_allocation mm/kasan/common.c:-1 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_pre_free+0x104/0x120 mm/kasan/common.c:261
 kasan_slab_pre_free include/linux/kasan.h:199 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2634 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6242 [inline]
 kfree+0x173/0x640 mm/slub.c:6557
 release_gid_table drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:804 [inline]
 gid_table_release_one+0x384/0x470 drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:877
 ib_device_release+0xd2/0x1c0 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:482
 device_release+0xc4/0x1f0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x228/0x560 lib/kobject.c:737
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3278 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3361
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3442
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6021:
 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]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5292 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x35c/0x760 mm/slub.c:5304
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 alloc_gid_table drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:773 [inline]
 _gid_table_setup_one drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:888 [inline]
 gid_table_setup_one drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:916 [inline]
 ib_cache_setup_one+0x198/0x570 drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:1606
 ib_register_device+0xfbd/0x13e0 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1426
 siw_device_register drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_main.c:71 [inline]
 siw_newlink+0x8fe/0xde0 drivers/infiniband/sw/siw/siw_main.c:430
 nldev_newlink+0x5bc/0x650 drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c:1812
 rdma_nl_rcv_msg drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:-1 [inline]
 rdma_nl_rcv_skb drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:239 [inline]
 rdma_nl_rcv+0x6d1/0xa10 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:259
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:786 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:801 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x972/0x9f0 net/socket.c:2650
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2704
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2736 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2741 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2739 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802bcdb600
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 216 bytes inside of
 224-byte region [ffff88802bcdb600, ffff88802bcdb6e0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2bcda
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe38b40 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe38b40 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000001 ffffffffffffff81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5953, tgid 5953 (syz-executor), ts 101457682506, free_ts 101330013904
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1858
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1866 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24ba/0x2540 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5226
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x339/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7247
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x321/0x720 mm/slub.c:4651
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4749 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4883 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x392/0x660 mm/slub.c:5407
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 ____ip_mc_inc_group+0x518/0xdd0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:1535
 __ip_mc_inc_group net/ipv4/igmp.c:1573 [inline]
 ip_mc_inc_group net/ipv4/igmp.c:1579 [inline]
 ip_mc_up+0x115/0x2e0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:1880
 inetdev_event+0xff6/0x1610 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1630
 notifier_call_chain+0x1ad/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2285 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2299 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x1a9/0x310 net/core/dev.c:9835
 netif_change_flags+0xe8/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:9864
 do_setlink+0xf82/0x4590 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3180
 rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3798 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3957 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x15a9/0x1be0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4094
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6980
page last free pid 5953 tgid 5953 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1402 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc7/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x7cd/0x1070 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:735
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:752
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1061
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802bcdb580: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802bcdb600: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88802bcdb680: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc
                                                    ^
 ffff88802bcdb700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802bcdb780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (3817):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/31 20:59 linux-next 36ece9697e89 aeea1c72 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 02:18 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 00:25 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/05 08:42 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/05 07:14 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/04 05:41 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/03 18:05 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/05 02:45 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KFENCE: invalid free in gid_table_release_one
2026/03/31 15:21 linux-next 36ece9697e89 aeea1c72 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KFENCE: invalid free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/07 02:23 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/07 01:37 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/07 00:56 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/07 00:24 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 23:48 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 23:11 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 22:34 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 21:54 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 21:07 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 20:36 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 20:00 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 19:14 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 18:50 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 18:30 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 18:04 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 17:28 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 16:47 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 16:01 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 15:21 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 14:57 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 14:15 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 13:38 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 13:09 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 12:34 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 11:53 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 11:18 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 10:33 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 09:51 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 09:07 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 08:20 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 07:41 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 07:06 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 06:09 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 05:43 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 04:54 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 04:08 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 03:17 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 02:26 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 01:42 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 01:08 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/06 00:33 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/05 23:56 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
2026/04/05 23:27 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in gid_table_release_one
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.