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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/15 20:15
Subsystems: hams
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Reported-by: syzbot+9cc08d5dcb1fc8feee76@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 324d, last: 21d
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c44dec64-8eab-4c9c-abc1-d66201e2f3aa repro KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame 2026/03/07 19:38 2026/03/07 19:38 2026/03/07 19:49 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
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[syzbot] Monthly hams report (Jan 2026) 0 (1) 2026/01/26 07:12
[syzbot] [hams?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame 0 (1) 2026/01/15 20:15
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in rose_send_frame (2) hams 2 7 1265d 1290d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame 22 3 89d 197d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/10/05 19:28

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rose_send_frame+0x266/0x2a0 net/rose/rose_link.c:106
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888056f1ec18 by task kworker/u8:7/1009

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1009 Comm: kworker/u8:7 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound nsim_dev_trap_report_work
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+0x156/0x4c9 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 rose_send_frame+0x266/0x2a0 net/rose/rose_link.c:106
 rose_transmit_restart_request+0x1b8/0x250 net/rose/rose_link.c:198
 rose_t0timer_expiry+0x1d/0x150 net/rose/rose_link.c:83
 call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x670 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x757/0xb30 kernel/time/timer.c:2373
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2385 [inline]
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2377 [inline]
 run_timer_base+0x114/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2394
 run_timer_softirq+0x1a/0x50 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
 handle_softirqs+0x1eb/0x9e0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xef/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:arch_atomic_read arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23 [inline]
RIP: 0010:raw_atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rcu_is_watching_curr_cpu include/linux/context_tracking.h:128 [inline]
RIP: 0010:rcu_is_watching+0x60/0xc0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:752
Code: 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 75 5c 48 03 1c ed e0 b8 12 8e 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 da 48 c1 ea 03 0f b6 14 02 <48> 89 d8 83 e0 07 83 c0 03 38 d0 7c 04 84 d2 75 24 8b 03 c1 e8 02
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000433f658 EFLAGS: 00000a02
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff8880b8533ce8 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8c1b19a0 RDI: ffffffff8e12b8e8
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000017585 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 trace_lock_acquire include/trace/events/lock.h:24 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x317/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5831
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:312 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:850 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1193 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xd1/0x1ea0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 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:2685 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x124/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:6295
 kfree_skbmem+0x19a/0x210 net/core/skbuff.c:1151
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1218 [inline]
 consume_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1450 [inline]
 consume_skb+0xd1/0x110 net/core/skbuff.c:1444
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:892 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x8cf/0xd10 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:922
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x19a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3276
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3359 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3440
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x754/0xd80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 24304:
 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
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 rose_add_node net/rose/rose_route.c:85 [inline]
 rose_rt_ioctl+0x586/0x2550 net/rose/rose_route.c:748
 rose_ioctl+0x491/0x7d0 net/rose/af_rose.c:1387
 sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1254
 sock_ioctl+0x599/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1375
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x106/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 1105:
 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:2685 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
 kfree+0x1f6/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:6483
 rose_neigh_put include/net/rose.h:166 [inline]
 rose_timer_expiry+0x53f/0x630 net/rose/rose_timer.c:183
 call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x670 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x757/0xb30 kernel/time/timer.c:2373
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2385 [inline]
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2377 [inline]
 run_timer_base+0x114/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2394
 run_timer_softirq+0x1a/0x50 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
 handle_softirqs+0x1eb/0x9e0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xef/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888056f1ec00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 freed 512-byte region [ffff888056f1ec00, ffff888056f1ee00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888056f1f800 pfn:0x56f1c
head: order:2 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 ffff88813fe40c80 ffffea0000deff10 ffffea0001641210
raw: ffff888056f1f800 000000080010000d 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88813fe40c80 ffffea0000deff10 ffffea0001641210
head: ffff888056f1f800 000000080010000d 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000002 ffffea00015bc701 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000004
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 23259, tgid 23259 (dhcpcd-run-hook), ts 1545801254190, free_ts 1543250136898
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x153/0x170 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x111d/0x3140 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x27c/0x2ba0 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3292 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3481 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa6/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:3539
 refill_objects+0x26b/0x400 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x1ab/0x660 mm/slub.c:4615
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4717 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4851 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5259 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x69a/0x850 mm/slub.c:5266
 kmalloc_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1081 [inline]
 alloc_slab_obj_exts+0xae/0x260 mm/slub.c:2167
 account_slab mm/slub.c:3435 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3512 [inline]
 new_slab+0x4c6/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:3539
 refill_objects+0x26b/0x400 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x1ab/0x660 mm/slub.c:4615
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4717 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4851 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x480/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:4873
 anon_vma_chain_alloc mm/rmap.c:142 [inline]
 anon_vma_clone+0x2ba/0xcd0 mm/rmap.c:342
 anon_vma_fork+0x1bb/0x6b0 mm/rmap.c:404
 dup_mmap+0x141f/0x2180 mm/mmap.c:1804
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1531 [inline]
 copy_mm kernel/fork.c:1583 [inline]
 copy_process+0x7523/0x7a40 kernel/fork.c:2223
page last free pid 23218 tgid 23218 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x7e1/0x10d0 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xe0 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:4538 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5259 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x2ba/0x850 mm/slub.c:5368
 __kmemdup_nul mm/util.c:64 [inline]
 kstrdup+0x51/0xe0 mm/util.c:84
 bprm_change_interp+0x78/0xe0 fs/exec.c:1474
 load_script+0x4bd/0x770 fs/binfmt_script.c:125
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1664 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1696 [inline]
 bprm_execve fs/exec.c:1748 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0x8fb/0x1680 fs/exec.c:1724
 do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x4a5/0x580 fs/exec.c:1846
 __do_sys_execve fs/exec.c:1930 [inline]
 __se_sys_execve fs/exec.c:1924 [inline]
 __x64_sys_execve+0x93/0xd0 fs/exec.c:1924
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x106/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888056f1eb00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888056f1eb80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888056f1ec00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff888056f1ec80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888056f1ed00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	48 89 fa             	mov    %rdi,%rdx
   3:	48 c1 ea 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdx
   7:	80 3c 02 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rdx,%rax,1)
   b:	75 5c                	jne    0x69
   d:	48 03 1c ed e0 b8 12 	add    -0x71ed4720(,%rbp,8),%rbx
  14:	8e
  15:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  1c:	fc ff df
  1f:	48 89 da             	mov    %rbx,%rdx
  22:	48 c1 ea 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdx
  26:	0f b6 14 02          	movzbl (%rdx,%rax,1),%edx
* 2a:	48 89 d8             	mov    %rbx,%rax <-- trapping instruction
  2d:	83 e0 07             	and    $0x7,%eax
  30:	83 c0 03             	add    $0x3,%eax
  33:	38 d0                	cmp    %dl,%al
  35:	7c 04                	jl     0x3b
  37:	84 d2                	test   %dl,%dl
  39:	75 24                	jne    0x5f
  3b:	8b 03                	mov    (%rbx),%eax
  3d:	c1 e8 02             	shr    $0x2,%eax

Crashes (25):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/30 14:38 upstream 7aaa8047eafd 458630d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2026/01/21 15:13 upstream 6c790212c588 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/09/16 05:40 upstream 46a51f4f5eda e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/06/22 08:32 upstream 739a6c93cc75 d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/05/31 22:52 upstream 0f70f5b08a47 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/08/31 11:13 upstream c8bc81a52d5a 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/10/17 11:51 net 7f864458e9a6 7adf5298 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/08/08 05:38 net ae633388cae3 6a893178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2026/01/05 02:37 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/12/25 11:26 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/12/20 01:57 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/11/20 07:44 upstream 23cb64fb7625 26ee5237 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/10/25 14:34 upstream 566771afc7a8 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/10/24 10:38 upstream 266ee584e55e c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/10/21 18:29 upstream 6548d364a3e8 9832ed61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/10/18 17:40 upstream f406055cb18c 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/09/29 19:40 upstream e5f0a698b34e 86341da6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2026/01/17 00:27 upstream b62ce2547fe8 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/11/26 08:51 upstream 30f09200cc4a 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/09/22 13:05 upstream 07e27ad16399 770ff59f .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2026/01/06 03:21 net d96bfb686742 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2026/01/21 14:04 net-next d8f87aa5fa0a 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/11/23 02:55 net-next e05021a829b8 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/11/01 04:52 net-next 01cc760632b8 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/09/30 14:33 net-next 9ebef94cf679 65a0eece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.