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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/15 15:55
Subsystems: net
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+44efda9647c52be29d9c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 35d, last: 2d06h
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d79d3def repro-c Reproduced: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x 2026/08/15 11:49 2026/08/15 18:28 2026/08/15 22:27 746171ee
9b672e47 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x 2026/07/13 00:04 2026/07/13 00:04 2026/07/13 01:08 d78ea535
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[syzbot] [net?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x 1 (2) 2026/07/28 12:56
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x 19 6 4d23h 21d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/25 04:49

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x+0x442/0x470 net/llc/llc_c_ac.c:782
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888079dee010 by task swapper/1/0

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x+0x442/0x470 net/llc/llc_c_ac.c:782
 llc_exec_conn_trans_actions net/llc/llc_conn.c:437 [inline]
 llc_conn_service net/llc/llc_conn.c:362 [inline]
 llc_conn_state_process+0x3ec/0x1480 net/llc/llc_conn.c:66
 llc_process_tmr_ev net/llc/llc_c_ac.c:1442 [inline]
 llc_conn_tmr_common_cb+0x2d4/0x880 net/llc/llc_c_ac.c:1325
 call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x610 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x757/0xb00 kernel/time/timer.c:2374
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2386 [inline]
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2378 [inline]
 run_timer_base+0x114/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2395
 run_timer_softirq+0x1a/0x50 kernel/time/timer.c:2405
 handle_softirqs+0x1ea/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x162/0x210 kernel/softirq.c:735
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:752
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:64
Code: 75 8d 02 e9 2e f8 56 f5 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 83 3f 12 00 fb f4 <e9> 07 f8 56 f5 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000197e00 EFLAGS: 00000242
RAX: 00000000006119fb RBX: ffff88801ea90000 RCX: ffffffff8bb96335
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8e1a5833 RDI: ffffffff8c3ff680
RBP: ffffed1003d52000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed10170a678d
R10: ffff8880b8533c6b R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 1ffff92000032fc4 R15: dffffc0000000000
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:62 [inline]
 default_idle+0x9/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:768
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/sched/idle.c:122
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:199 [inline]
 do_idle+0x3a7/0x5b0 kernel/sched/idle.c:355
 cpu_startup_entry+0x4f/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:454
 start_secondary+0x21d/0x2d0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:312
 common_startup_64+0x13e/0x158
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 7619:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2e5/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5489
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 llc_sap_alloc net/llc/llc_core.c:29 [inline]
 llc_sap_open+0x120/0x3b0 net/llc/llc_core.c:96
 llc_ui_autobind.isra.0+0x2ae/0x580 net/llc/af_llc.c:301
 llc_ui_connect+0x582/0xdb0 net/llc/af_llc.c:498
 __sys_connect_file+0x141/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2135
 __sys_connect+0x141/0x170 net/socket.c:2154
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2160 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2157 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x72/0xb0 net/socket.c:2157
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5925:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2677 [inline]
 __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0x5d/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:2928
 rcu_free_sheaf+0x1a/0xe0 mm/slub.c:5978
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2645 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x5a2/0x10d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2897
 handle_softirqs+0x1ea/0x9b0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x162/0x210 kernel/softirq.c:735
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:752
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888079dee000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888079dee000, ffff888079dee800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888079deb000 pfn:0x79de8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000240 ffff88813fe24000 ffffea0000ab2410 ffffea0000a97010
raw: ffff888079deb000 0000000800080006 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88813fe24000 ffffea0000ab2410 ffffea0000a97010
head: ffff888079deb000 0000000800080006 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 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 5610, tgid 5610 (syz-executor), ts 90260792685, free_ts 70659159280
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xf48/0x3530 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x299/0x2dc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3380 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa2/0x640 mm/slub.c:3426
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x376/0x680 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x479/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x126/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4059
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:775 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x48b/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2252
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2259 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2255 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2255
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 5460 tgid 5460 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x1090 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4584 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4917 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x26b/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:4931
 copy_sighand kernel/fork.c:1680 [inline]
 copy_process+0x2e05/0x8030 kernel/fork.c:2283
 kernel_clone+0x176/0x9d0 kernel/fork.c:2748
 __do_sys_clone+0xd9/0x120 kernel/fork.c:2889
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888079dedf00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888079dedf80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888079dee000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff888079dee080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888079dee100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	75 8d                	jne    0xffffff8f
   2:	02 e9                	add    %cl,%ch
   4:	2e f8                	cs clc
   6:	56                   	push   %rsi
   7:	f5                   	cmc
   8:	0f 1f 00             	nopl   (%rax)
   b:	90                   	nop
   c:	90                   	nop
   d:	90                   	nop
   e:	90                   	nop
   f:	90                   	nop
  10:	90                   	nop
  11:	90                   	nop
  12:	90                   	nop
  13:	90                   	nop
  14:	90                   	nop
  15:	90                   	nop
  16:	90                   	nop
  17:	90                   	nop
  18:	90                   	nop
  19:	90                   	nop
  1a:	90                   	nop
  1b:	f3 0f 1e fa          	endbr64
  1f:	66 90                	xchg   %ax,%ax
  21:	0f 00 2d 83 3f 12 00 	verw   0x123f83(%rip)        # 0x123fab
  28:	fb                   	sti
  29:	f4                   	hlt
* 2a:	e9 07 f8 56 f5       	jmp    0xf556f836 <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 	cs nopw 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
  36:	00 00 00
  39:	66 90                	xchg   %ax,%ax
  3b:	90                   	nop
  3c:	90                   	nop
  3d:	90                   	nop
  3e:	90                   	nop
  3f:	90                   	nop

Crashes (22):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/13 16:13 upstream 3d6d817622b0 a9ede23c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/08/10 13:52 upstream db2ddb871435 558388e4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/08/09 08:58 upstream 06cf61899d64 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/08/07 08:02 upstream 364465ab19de c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/08/07 04:14 upstream 0d8395707651 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/08/05 12:19 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/26 18:06 upstream 3dab139d4795 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/25 19:02 upstream 0ce37745d4bf 492bab15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/24 01:41 upstream d326f83e819c 71a13572 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/19 13:34 upstream f2ec6312bf71 72524a66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/18 16:32 upstream 1229e2e57a5c 72524a66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/18 09:43 upstream af5e34a41cd6 72524a66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/18 07:32 upstream af5e34a41cd6 72524a66 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/17 02:46 upstream 37e2f878a7a6 8f30cfd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/16 09:33 upstream 37e2f878a7a6 27a8bd60 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/15 23:10 upstream 58717b2a1365 27a8bd60 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/13 12:11 upstream a13c140cc289 a870962e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/13 12:00 upstream a13c140cc289 a870962e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/13 07:18 upstream a13c140cc289 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/13 02:35 upstream a13c140cc289 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/11 15:49 upstream d96fcfe1b7f9 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
2026/07/17 09:50 upstream fce2dfa773ce 7f27c57a .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in llc_conn_ac_send_sabme_cmd_p_set_x
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.