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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/05 08:24
Reported-by: syzbot+7ea5546debef6ec8987d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 12d, last: 12d
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb bluetooth 19 syz error 112 2d16h 453d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/10/21 08:46
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb 19 7 317d 442d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/14 04:52
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb 19 3 154d 240d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/24 17:00
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb (2) origin:lts-only 19 syz inconclusive 1 51d 51d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/11/27 04:46
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb (2) 19 4 87d 158d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/08/12 10:32

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb+0x1f9/0x2b0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1484
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88806087b548 by task kworker/u5:2/5773

CPU: 1 PID: 5773 Comm: kworker/u5:2 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: hci1 hci_rx_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xac/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb+0x1f9/0x2b0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1484
 l2cap_connect_cfm+0x375/0x1030 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7259
 hci_connect_cfm+0x8f/0x130 include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:1999
 le_conn_complete_evt+0xfb5/0x1500 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5786
 hci_le_conn_complete_evt+0x187/0x440 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5812
 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7454 [inline]
 hci_event_packet+0x795/0x1210 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7509
 hci_rx_work+0x43a/0xd80 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4018
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5773:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:374 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:383
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:198 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1007 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xb4/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 sk_prot_alloc+0xe7/0x210 net/core/sock.c:2096
 sk_alloc+0x3a/0x360 net/core/sock.c:2152
 bt_sock_alloc+0x3b/0x310 net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c:148
 l2cap_sock_alloc net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1881 [inline]
 l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb+0xe2/0x2b0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1469
 l2cap_connect_cfm+0x375/0x1030 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7259
 hci_connect_cfm+0x8f/0x130 include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:1999
 le_conn_complete_evt+0xfb5/0x1500 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5786
 hci_le_conn_complete_evt+0x187/0x440 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5812
 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7454 [inline]
 hci_event_packet+0x795/0x1210 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7509
 hci_rx_work+0x43a/0xd80 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4018
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Freed by task 15718:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:236
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
 sk_prot_free net/core/sock.c:2135 [inline]
 __sk_destruct+0x4e0/0x660 net/core/sock.c:2230
 l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen+0xda/0x3e0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1449
 l2cap_sock_release+0x6a/0x1e0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1410
 __sock_release net/socket.c:659 [inline]
 sock_close+0xbd/0x230 net/socket.c:1421
 __fput+0x234/0x970 fs/file_table.c:384
 task_work_run+0x1ce/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:239
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xf6/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:87
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:2721 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x158/0x930 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2837
 netlink_release+0x16b4/0x1a80 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:801
 __sock_release net/socket.c:659 [inline]
 sock_close+0xbd/0x230 net/socket.c:1421
 __fput+0x234/0x970 fs/file_table.c:384
 task_work_run+0x1ce/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:239
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0x90b/0x23c0 kernel/exit.c:883
 __do_sys_exit kernel/exit.c:991 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit kernel/exit.c:989 [inline]
 __ia32_sys_exit+0x0/0x40 kernel/exit.c:989
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88806087b000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1352 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff88806087b000, ffff88806087b800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001821e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x60878
head:ffffea0001821e00 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017842000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 11266, tgid 11264 (+}[@), ts 289492076170, free_ts 289421469726
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1cd/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1554
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
 __alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x170 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc6d/0x1300 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a2/0x260 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xa2/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1027
 kmalloc_reserve+0x116/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:584
 __alloc_skb+0x138/0x2c0 net/core/skbuff.c:653
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1284 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:1010 [inline]
 audit_buffer_alloc kernel/audit.c:1796 [inline]
 audit_log_start+0x152/0x830 kernel/audit.c:1914
 audit_seccomp+0x63/0x180 kernel/auditsc.c:3007
 seccomp_log kernel/seccomp.c:1003 [inline]
 __seccomp_filter+0xa49/0x1b70 kernel/seccomp.c:1290
 syscall_trace_enter+0xa7/0x150 kernel/entry/common.c:72
 do_syscall_64+0x28/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:77
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2127 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1cf/0x210 mm/slub.c:2667
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2743
 __slab_free+0x31d/0x410 mm/slub.c:3700
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:305
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x11e/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:3519
 getname_flags+0xbb/0x500 fs/namei.c:140
 vfs_fstatat+0x111/0x1b0 fs/stat.c:298
 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:463 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:457 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x117/0x190 fs/stat.c:457
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88806087b400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88806087b480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88806087b500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                              ^
 ffff88806087b580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88806087b600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/05 08:23 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.