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KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (3)

Status: premoderation: reported on 2025/09/15 04:31
Reported-by: syzbot+88b7cb1ae4dd83641bba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d02h, last: 1d02h
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 24 2 329d 353d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/19 22:14
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (2) 24 3 128d 229d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/08 12:20
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 24 2 361d 383d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/29 03:40
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 24 2 446d 459d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/25 05:09
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (2) origin:downstream 24 C 15 9d04h 187d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/13 02:24
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 24 2 778d 866d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/08 00:22
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (2) 24 2 273d 361d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/26 11:58
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete origin:downstream 24 syz 18 15d 342d 0/2 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2024/10/08 10:15
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (3) 24 1 53d 53d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/07/25 00:17
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete net 24 C done 1286 428d 447d 27/29 fixed on 2024/08/14 03:44

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in test_and_set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:70 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_session_delete+0x24/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1563
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88812f383c08 by task kworker/u4:5/830

CPU: 0 PID: 830 Comm: kworker/u4:5 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/14/2025
Workqueue: l2tp l2tp_tunnel_del_work
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x169/0x1d8 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:435 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xe2/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x280/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/shadow.c:37
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
 test_and_set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:70 [inline]
 l2tp_session_delete+0x24/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1563
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1218 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x1d2/0x3e0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1258
 process_one_work+0x6e1/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2301
 worker_thread+0xa6a/0x13b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2447
 kthread+0x346/0x3d0 kernel/kthread.c:313
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298

Allocated by task 17289:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:430 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:509 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xda/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:518
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x1a7/0x330 mm/slub.c:4038
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:557 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:664 [inline]
 l2tp_session_create+0x39/0xb60 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1599
 pppol2tp_connect+0xb35/0x1570 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:782
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1866 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x38c/0x410 net/socket.c:1883
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1893 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1890 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1890
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Freed by task 17288:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4a/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x23/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x125/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:362
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:370
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:220 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1600 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc5/0x190 mm/slub.c:1626
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3208 [inline]
 kfree+0xc0/0x270 mm/slub.c:4196
 l2tp_session_free net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:168 [inline]
 l2tp_session_dec_refcount+0xb2/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:205
 pppol2tp_session_destruct+0xb1/0xf0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:419
 __sk_destruct+0x53/0x600 net/core/sock.c:1813
 sk_destruct net/core/sock.c:1858 [inline]
 __sk_free+0x313/0x410 net/core/sock.c:1869
 sk_free+0x54/0x90 net/core/sock.c:1880
 sock_put include/net/sock.h:1858 [inline]
 pppol2tp_put_sk+0x7a/0xb0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:402
 rcu_do_batch+0x4df/0xa80 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2494
 rcu_core+0x55f/0xd60 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2735
 rcu_core_si+0x9/0x10 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2748
 __do_softirq+0x255/0x563 kernel/softirq.c:309

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xd2/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc+0xb/0x10 mm/kasan/generic.c:358
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:2980 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x10e/0x1050 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3054
 pppol2tp_release+0x208/0x2d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:458
 __sock_release net/socket.c:597 [inline]
 sock_close+0xe0/0x270 net/socket.c:1286
 __fput+0x2fb/0x770 fs/file_table.c:281
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:314
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:189
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:33 [inline]
 do_exit+0xa4f/0x2480 kernel/exit.c:872
 do_group_exit+0x141/0x310 kernel/exit.c:986
 get_signal+0xf7d/0x12e0 kernel/signal.c:2793
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbf/0x10f0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:805
 handle_signal_work kernel/entry/common.c:145 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xa2/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:169
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x76/0xa0 kernel/entry/common.c:199
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:274
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:56
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88812f383c00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff88812f383c00, ffff88812f383e00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004bce000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12f380
head:ffffea0004bce000 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 4000000000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888100043080
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d2a20(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 8721, ts 1150440606287, free_ts 1149991892830
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:35 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:2456 [inline]
 prep_new_page+0x179/0x180 mm/page_alloc.c:2462
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2235/0x23d0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x268/0x5f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5370
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1813 [inline]
 new_slab+0x84/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:1874
 new_slab_objects mm/slub.c:2632 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x2a6/0x450 mm/slub.c:2796
 __slab_alloc+0x63/0xa0 mm/slub.c:2836
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2918 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1ef/0x320 mm/slub.c:4541
 __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:144 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0xdc/0x520 net/core/skbuff.c:212
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:953 [inline]
 fdb_notify+0x78/0x130 net/bridge/br_fdb.c:739
 br_fdb_update+0x45f/0x590 net/bridge/br_fdb.c:618
 br_handle_frame_finish+0x1e0/0x1180 net/bridge/br_input.c:102
 nf_hook_bridge_pre net/bridge/br_input.c:259 [inline]
 br_handle_frame+0x407/0x8e0 net/bridge/br_input.c:363
 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xe95/0x2f90 net/core/dev.c:5296
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:5400 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb+0x72/0x280 net/core/dev.c:5516
 process_backlog+0x368/0x600 net/core/dev.c:6423
 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6874 [inline]
 net_rx_action+0x432/0xdd0 net/core/dev.c:6944
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:28 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1349 [inline]
 __free_pages_ok+0x7fc/0x820 mm/page_alloc.c:1629
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:5431 [inline]
 __free_pages+0xdd/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5440
 __free_slab+0xcf/0x190 mm/slub.c:1899
 free_slab mm/slub.c:1914 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:1920 [inline]
 unfreeze_partials+0x15f/0x190 mm/slub.c:2415
 put_cpu_partial+0xc1/0x180 mm/slub.c:2451
 __slab_free+0x2c9/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:3100
 do_slab_free mm/slub.c:3196 [inline]
 ___cache_free+0x111/0x130 mm/slub.c:3215
 qlink_free+0x50/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:157
 qlist_free_all+0x5f/0xb0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14a/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:440
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:244 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x5d/0x2f0 mm/slab.h:580
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2952 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x183/0x330 mm/slub.c:4034
 __kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:418 [inline]
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:575 [inline]
 kvmalloc_node+0x88/0x130 mm/util.c:612
 kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:833 [inline]
 xt_alloc_table_info+0x3b/0xa0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1172
 do_replace net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1127 [inline]
 do_ipt_set_ctl+0x861/0xce0 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:1636

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88812f383b00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88812f383b80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88812f383c00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88812f383c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88812f383d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 830 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x120/0x1a0 lib/refcount.c:28
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 830 Comm: kworker/u4:5 Tainted: G    B             syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/14/2025
Workqueue: l2tp l2tp_tunnel_del_work
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x120/0x1a0 lib/refcount.c:28
Code: 04 01 48 c7 c7 a0 0b 20 85 e8 0c cb 34 02 0f 0b eb c3 e8 b3 40 29 ff c6 05 c1 0a 66 04 01 48 c7 c7 00 0c 20 85 e8 f0 ca 34 02 <0f> 0b eb a7 e8 97 40 29 ff c6 05 a2 0a 66 04 01 48 c7 c7 20 0b 20
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000c67c50 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 29e2415ab2768800 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: ffff888110f90000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90000c67c60 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: ffffed103ee24e8b
R10: ffffed103ee24e8b R11: 1ffff1103ee24e8a R12: 0000000000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f3946058000 CR3: 000000010d0ba000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:283 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]
 l2tp_session_dec_refcount+0xcb/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:204
 l2tp_session_delete+0x3ab/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1572
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1218 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x1d2/0x3e0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1258
 process_one_work+0x6e1/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2301
 worker_thread+0xa6a/0x13b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2447
 kthread+0x346/0x3d0 kernel/kthread.c:313
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298
---[ end trace 1aca7d55cd22ed3c ]---

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/15 04:30 android13-5.10-lts 911f602c2237 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.