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

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/08/03 17:42
Reported-by: syzbot+9c6891ee8c4cc1cac439@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 77d, last: 52d
Bug presence (1)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/09/02 upstream (ToT) b320789d6883 syz Didn't crash
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue input usb 19 3 849d 851d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/01 17:55
upstream BUG: corrupted list in remove_wait_queue (2) fs 19 C done 54 3d08h 270d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/01/22 23:27
linux-4.19 BUG: corrupted list in remove_wait_queue 8 C 31139 958d 2384d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2019/04/10 16:06
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue (3) kernfs 19 C inconclusive 123 1008d 1434d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue (2) 19 C error 7 1326d 2022d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/04/07 06:03
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue 19 C done 25 57d 78d 2/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/03 00:30
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue origin:lts-only 19 C inconclusive 24 57d 78d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/03 01:02

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0xff/0x7c80 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5005
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802f000cb8 by task syz.0.274/7100

CPU: 0 PID: 7100 Comm: syz.0.274 Not tainted 6.6.102-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
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
 __lock_acquire+0xff/0x7c80 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5005
 lock_acquire+0x197/0x410 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xa8/0xf0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 remove_wait_queue+0x24/0x120 kernel/sched/wait.c:54
 free_poll_entry fs/select.c:132 [inline]
 poll_freewait+0xb1/0x240 fs/select.c:141
 do_select+0x175b/0x1840 fs/select.c:609
 core_sys_select+0x71c/0x950 fs/select.c:678
 do_pselect fs/select.c:760 [inline]
 __do_sys_pselect6 fs/select.c:801 [inline]
 __se_sys_pselect6+0x285/0x310 fs/select.c:792
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7f9fc6f8ebe9
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:00007f9fc7e7c038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000010e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f9fc71b5fa0 RCX: 00007f9fc6f8ebe9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000040
RBP: 00007f9fc7011e19 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00002000000002c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f9fc71b6038 R14: 00007f9fc71b5fa0 R15: 00007ffde02f94f8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6212:
 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
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 __comedi_device_postconfig_async drivers/comedi/drivers.c:666 [inline]
 __comedi_device_postconfig drivers/comedi/drivers.c:723 [inline]
 comedi_device_postconfig+0x496/0xc50 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:758
 comedi_device_attach+0x533/0x660 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:1000
 do_devconfig_ioctl drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:855 [inline]
 comedi_unlocked_ioctl+0x68d/0xf90 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2156
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
 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

Freed by task 7102:
 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:1806 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1832
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3816 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3829
 comedi_device_detach_cleanup drivers/comedi/drivers.c:171 [inline]
 comedi_device_detach+0x363/0x6f0 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:207
 do_devconfig_ioctl drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:833 [inline]
 comedi_unlocked_ioctl+0xbd0/0xf90 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2156
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
 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

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
 fib_create_info+0x1845/0x2460 net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c:1590
 fib_table_insert+0xc7/0x1b50 net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:1217
 fib_magic+0x2c5/0x390 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1118
 fib_add_ifaddr+0x144/0x5e0 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1140
 fib_netdev_event+0x389/0x490 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1500
 notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x390 kernel/notifier.c:93
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2064 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2078 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x18e/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:-1
 dev_change_flags+0xe8/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8750
 do_setlink+0xc74/0x3fb0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2905
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3703 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x175b/0x2020 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3750
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7c7/0xf10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6475
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x216/0x480 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2555
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1330 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x751/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1356
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8c1/0xbe0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1904
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x46a/0x620 net/socket.c:2201
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2213 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2209 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0xf0 net/socket.c:2209
 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 ffff88802f000c00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 184 bytes inside of
 freed 256-byte region [ffff88802f000c00, ffff88802f000d00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000bc0000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2f000
head:ffffea0000bc0000 order:1 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017841b40 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
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 5787, tgid 5787 (syz-executor), ts 77817958115, free_ts 76920596044
 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:1876
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2023 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2076
 ___slab_alloc+0xc6d/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3230
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3329 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3382 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3475 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a2/0x260 mm/slub.c:3524
 kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 ____ip_mc_inc_group+0x2ad/0xac0 net/ipv4/igmp.c:1452
 __ip_mc_inc_group net/ipv4/igmp.c:1487 [inline]
 ip_mc_inc_group net/ipv4/igmp.c:1493 [inline]
 ip_mc_up+0x125/0x300 net/ipv4/igmp.c:1792
 inetdev_event+0x1009/0x15c0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1612
 notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x390 kernel/notifier.c:93
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2064 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2078 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x18e/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:-1
 dev_change_flags+0xe8/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8750
 do_setlink+0xc74/0x3fb0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2905
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3703 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x175b/0x2020 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3750
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
 __slab_free+0x35e/0x410 mm/slub.c:3722
 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:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x13e/0x260 mm/slub.c:3524
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa4/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 fib6_info_alloc+0x32/0xe0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:155
 ip6_route_info_create+0x44f/0x1200 net/ipv6/route.c:3793
 ip6_route_add+0x28/0x130 net/ipv6/route.c:3889
 addrconf_add_mroute net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2515 [inline]
 addrconf_add_dev+0x257/0x340 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2533
 addrconf_dev_config net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3452 [inline]
 addrconf_init_auto_addrs+0x5cc/0xaa0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3540
 addrconf_notify+0xb62/0x1010 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3713
 notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x390 kernel/notifier.c:93

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802f000b80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802f000c00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88802f000c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                        ^
 ffff88802f000d00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802f000d80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (13):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/28 12:39 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/28 12:32 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/28 00:52 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a e12e5ba4 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/27 22:21 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a e12e5ba4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/20 14:00 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/20 14:00 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/20 12:38 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/20 12:37 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 79512909 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/16 21:40 linux-6.6.y bb9c90ab9c5a 1804e95e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/08 15:10 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/08 15:10 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/04 13:51 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 7368264b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
2025/08/03 17:42 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 7368264b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_wait_queue
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.