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WARNING: refcount bug in iwpm_find_nlmsg_request
Status:
upstream: reported on 2026/09/02 00:23
Subsystems:
rdma
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Reported-by: syzbot+bd317784d628820741b5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d01h, last: 4d01h
Sample crash report:
netlink: 16 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `syz.2.3511'.
iwpm_mapping_error_cb: Received msg seq = 0 err code = 5 client = 2
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refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: lib/refcount.c:25 at refcount_warn_saturate+0x111/0x130 lib/refcount.c:25, CPU#0: syz.2.3511/18531
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 18531 Comm: syz.2.3511 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x111/0x130 lib/refcount.c:25
Code: 06 e8 53 6d e3 fc 48 8d 3d dc 53 28 0c 67 48 0f b9 3a e8 42 6d e3 fc 5b 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 36 6d e3 fc 48 8d 3d cf 53 28 0c <67> 48 0f b9 3a e8 25 6d e3 fc 5b 5d e9 ce 8f a8 06 48 89 df e8 46
RSP: 0000:ffffc90007ddf448 EFLAGS: 00010087
RAX: 0000000000001c55 RBX: ffff888024890878 RCX: ffffc9000c001000
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff8527c5fa RDI: ffffffff915019d0
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 000000000000001f R12: ffff888024890878
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000283 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888096968000(0063) knlGS:00000000f5456b40
CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000f73d8568 CR3: 00000000774e3000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
DR0: 0000000000000009 DR1: 0000000000000009 DR2: 0000000000000003
DR3: 0000000000000008 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:289 [inline]
__refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:366 [inline]
refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:383 [inline]
kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
iwpm_find_nlmsg_request+0x13d/0x160 drivers/infiniband/core/iwpm_util.c:360
iwpm_mapping_error_cb.cold+0x97/0x277 drivers/infiniband/core/iwpm_msg.c:794
netlink_dump+0x532/0xd00 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2331
__netlink_dump_start+0x6d6/0x990 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2446
netlink_dump_start include/linux/netlink.h:341 [inline]
rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0x568/0x6f0 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:190
rdma_nl_rcv_skb.constprop.0.isra.0+0x2cb/0x410 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:239
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:800 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xa4d/0xbe0 net/socket.c:2713
___sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2767
__sys_sendmsg+0x160/0x210 net/socket.c:2799
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:79 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0x13a/0x8b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:291
do_fast_syscall_32+0x32/0x70 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:316
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
RIP: 0023:0xf7f94fec
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xf7f94fc2.
RSP: 002b:00000000f545650c EFLAGS: 00000292 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000172
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000007 RCX: 0000000080000100
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000292 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess), 1 bytes skipped:
0: e8 53 6d e3 fc call 0xfce36d58
5: 48 8d 3d dc 53 28 0c lea 0xc2853dc(%rip),%rdi # 0xc2853e8
c: 67 48 0f b9 3a ud1 (%edx),%rdi
11: e8 42 6d e3 fc call 0xfce36d58
16: 5b pop %rbx
17: 5d pop %rbp
18: c3 ret
19: cc int3
1a: cc int3
1b: cc int3
1c: cc int3
1d: e8 36 6d e3 fc call 0xfce36d58
22: 48 8d 3d cf 53 28 0c lea 0xc2853cf(%rip),%rdi # 0xc2853f8
* 29: 67 48 0f b9 3a ud1 (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
2e: e8 25 6d e3 fc call 0xfce36d58
33: 5b pop %rbx
34: 5d pop %rbp
35: e9 ce 8f a8 06 jmp 0x6a89008
3a: 48 89 df mov %rbx,%rdi
3d: e8 .byte 0xe8
3e: 46 rex.RX
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.