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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/29 03:47
Reported-by: syzbot+9d5ba131e18eed0c503b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 8d23h, last: 3d17h

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in list_empty include/linux/list.h:373 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in waitqueue_active include/linux/wait.h:129 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in wq_has_sleeper include/linux/wait.h:163 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in io_cqring_wake io_uring/io_uring.h:260 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in io_cq_unlock_post io_uring/io_uring.c:647 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __io_req_complete_post+0x797/0x10a0 io_uring/io_uring.c:1012
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88801aade2d8 by task kworker/0:5/5833

CPU: 0 PID: 5833 Comm: kworker/0:5 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Workqueue: events ublk_stop_work_fn
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 list_empty include/linux/list.h:373 [inline]
 waitqueue_active include/linux/wait.h:129 [inline]
 wq_has_sleeper include/linux/wait.h:163 [inline]
 io_cqring_wake io_uring/io_uring.h:260 [inline]
 io_cq_unlock_post io_uring/io_uring.c:647 [inline]
 __io_req_complete_post+0x797/0x10a0 io_uring/io_uring.c:1012
 io_uring_cmd_done+0x247/0x370 io_uring/uring_cmd.c:72
 ublk_cancel_queue drivers/block/ublk_drv.c:1564 [inline]
 ublk_cancel_dev+0x1f5/0x3a0 drivers/block/ublk_drv.c:1577
 ublk_stop_dev+0x36e/0x410 drivers/block/ublk_drv.c:1678
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 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 12283:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 io_ring_ctx_alloc+0x54/0xc10 io_uring/io_uring.c:289
 io_uring_create+0x2de/0x1320 io_uring/io_uring.c:3993
 io_uring_setup io_uring/io_uring.c:4178 [inline]
 __do_sys_io_uring_setup io_uring/io_uring.c:4205 [inline]
 __se_sys_io_uring_setup+0x29f/0x2b0 io_uring/io_uring.c:4199
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 4387:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:3843
 io_ring_exit_work+0x795/0x820 io_uring/io_uring.c:3264
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 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

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 insert_work+0x3d/0x310 kernel/workqueue.c:1670
 __queue_work+0xc39/0x1020 kernel/workqueue.c:1819
 queue_work_on+0x128/0x1f0 kernel/workqueue.c:1854
 queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:562 [inline]
 io_ring_ctx_wait_and_kill+0x256/0x2b0 io_uring/io_uring.c:3296
 io_uring_release+0x42/0x50 io_uring/io_uring.c:3304
 __fput+0x234/0x970 fs/file_table.c:384
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:245
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0x95a/0x2460 kernel/exit.c:884
 io_worker_exit io_uring/io-wq.c:245 [inline]
 io_wq_worker+0xe1c/0xf10 io_uring/io-wq.c:692
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88801aade000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 728 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff88801aade000, ffff88801aadf000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00006ab600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1aad8
head:ffffea00006ab600 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 ffff888017c42140 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 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 0x1d2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 1079, tgid 1079 (kworker/u4:6), ts 820990461020, free_ts 820932419736
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1581
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1588 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1951/0x19e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3220
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4500
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5d/0x12f0 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+0x19e/0x250 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:1316 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:748 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:805 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x293/0xb10 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:851
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 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
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1181 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7b2/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2365
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2458
 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+0x319/0x400 mm/slub.c:3700
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4b0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x13a/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa4/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode2 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:45 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode+0x28b/0x540 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:80
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x592/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:283
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x224/0x460 security/tomoyo/file.c:771
 security_file_open+0x62/0xa0 security/security.c:2855
 do_dentry_open+0x380/0x1500 fs/open.c:916

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88801aade180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88801aade200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88801aade280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                    ^
 ffff88801aade300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88801aade380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/03 09:21 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb 3c0d2131 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __io_req_complete_post
2026/05/29 03:46 linux-6.6.y 0a40c6fbd105 4624854e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __io_req_complete_post
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.