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

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/08/05 08:58
Subsystems: perf
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Reported-by: syzbot+e0378d4f4fe57aa2bdd0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d05h, last: 13h54m
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[syzbot] [perf?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __task_pid_nr_ns 0 (1) 2025/08/05 08:58

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __task_pid_nr_ns+0x1da/0x470 kernel/pid.c:517
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880275c4be8 by task syz.3.1147/10513

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 10513 Comm: syz.3.1147 Not tainted 6.16.0-syzkaller-gf3af62b6cee8 #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __task_pid_nr_ns+0x1da/0x470 kernel/pid.c:517
 perf_event_pid_type kernel/events/core.c:1431 [inline]
 perf_event_pid kernel/events/core.c:1440 [inline]
 perf_event_read_event kernel/events/core.c:8519 [inline]
 sync_child_event kernel/events/core.c:13962 [inline]
 perf_child_detach kernel/events/core.c:2339 [inline]
 __perf_remove_from_context+0x22e5/0x2a80 kernel/events/core.c:2510
 perf_remove_from_context+0x152/0x1d0 kernel/events/core.c:2559
 perf_event_release_kernel+0x2dd/0x510 kernel/events/core.c:5837
 perf_release+0x38/0x50 kernel/events/core.c:5870
 __fput+0x449/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:468
 task_work_run+0x1d1/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xec/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:43
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fb6e878eb69
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:00007fff562a6868 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007fb6e89b7ba0 RCX: 00007fb6e878eb69
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fb6e89b7ba0 R08: 0000000000000130 R09: 00000011562a6b5f
R10: 00007fb6e89b7ac0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000006c207
R13: 00007fb6e89b6080 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 00007fff562a6980
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 10514:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:319 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:345
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4180 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4229 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x1c1/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:4236
 copy_signal+0x50/0x630 kernel/fork.c:1653
 copy_process+0x16a6/0x3c00 kernel/fork.c:2170
 kernel_clone+0x21e/0x840 kernel/fork.c:2603
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2746 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2730 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x18b/0x1e0 kernel/fork.c:2730
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 10514:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x62/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2417 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4680 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x18f/0x400 mm/slub.c:4782
 copy_process+0x2953/0x3c00 kernel/fork.c:2456
 kernel_clone+0x21e/0x840 kernel/fork.c:2603
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2746 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2730 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x18b/0x1e0 kernel/fork.c:2730
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880275c4a40
 which belongs to the cache signal_cache of size 1544
The buggy address is located 424 bytes inside of
 freed 1544-byte region [ffff8880275c4a40, ffff8880275c5048)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x275c0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888078773801
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801bad5780 ffffea000093f000 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000120012 00000000f5000000 ffff888078773801
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801bad5780 ffffea000093f000 dead000000000002
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000120012 00000000f5000000 ffff888078773801
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea00009d7001 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 992, tgid 992 (kworker/u8:5), ts 9452358497, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2487 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x8a/0x370 mm/slub.c:2655
 new_slab mm/slub.c:2709 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xbeb/0x1410 mm/slub.c:3891
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3981 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4056 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4217 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x283/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:4236
 copy_signal+0x50/0x630 kernel/fork.c:1653
 copy_process+0x16a6/0x3c00 kernel/fork.c:2170
 kernel_clone+0x21e/0x840 kernel/fork.c:2603
 user_mode_thread+0xdd/0x140 kernel/fork.c:2681
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x5c/0x230 kernel/umh.c:171
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464
 ret_from_fork+0x3f9/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880275c4a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880275c4b00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880275c4b80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                          ^
 ffff8880275c4c00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880275c4c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/05 14:02 bpf-next f3af62b6cee8 904e669c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __task_pid_nr_ns
2025/07/31 22:40 bpf-next e8d780dcd957 0c075d67 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __task_pid_nr_ns
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.