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

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/06 15:25
Subsystems: net bpf
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+c06674caba265dc61d46@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 38d, last: 15d
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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2e4d4299 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind 2026/08/09 07:19 2026/08/09 07:19 2026/08/09 08:16 5d63f80b
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[PATCH v2] netdevsim: update rxq->napi pointer during queue reset 2 (2) 2026/08/18 13:25
[syzbot] [net?] [bpf?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind 0 (4) 2026/08/14 02:50
[PATCH] netdevsim: update rxq->napi pointer during queue reset 2 (2) 2026/08/12 14:02
Last patch testing requests (4)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/11 16:13 1h15m retest repro upstream no crash job log log
2026/08/14 02:50 26m subasris1210@gmail.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git a59f57e2aa127c5354168d2ec4bac920df1be4f4 OK job log log
2026/08/08 10:51 1h06m subasris1210@gmail.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git a59f57e2aa127c5354168d2ec4bac920df1be4f4 OK log
2026/08/08 06:01 5h21m subasris1210@gmail.com patch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master OK log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in xsk_bind+0x1582/0x16c0 net/xdp/xsk.c:1761
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802671f18c by task syz.0.1655/12512

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12512 Comm: syz.0.1655 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __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+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 xsk_bind+0x1582/0x16c0 net/xdp/xsk.c:1761
 __sys_bind_socket net/socket.c:1945 [inline]
 __sys_bind_socket net/socket.c:1937 [inline]
 __sys_bind+0x1a9/0x260 net/socket.c:1976
 __do_sys_bind net/socket.c:1981 [inline]
 __se_sys_bind net/socket.c:1979 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bind+0x72/0xb0 net/socket.c:1979
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdb88b9e0d9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fdb89b0c028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000031
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdb88e25fa0 RCX: 00007fdb88b9e0d9
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 00002000000003c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fdb88c35024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdb88e26038 R14: 00007fdb88e25fa0 R15: 00007ffd172f3878
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 12190:
 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
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5414 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x35b/0x9b0 mm/slub.c:7005
 nf_tables_newset+0x2520/0x4250 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5655
 nfnetlink_rcv_batch+0x1410/0x2880 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:524
 nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:647 [inline]
 nfnetlink_rcv+0x3bd/0x440 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:665
 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_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 12190:
 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:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
 kfree+0x22b/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6792
 nft_set_put net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5752 [inline]
 nft_set_put+0x89/0xc0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5748
 nft_set_destroy net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5768 [inline]
 nft_set_destroy+0x46a/0x5e0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:5756
 __nft_release_table+0xb63/0x1330 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:12048
 nft_rcv_nl_event+0x4de/0x6c0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:12118
 notifier_call_chain+0x99/0x3f0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 blocking_notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:380 [inline]
 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x69/0xa0 kernel/notifier.c:368
 netlink_release+0x1680/0x2000 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:762
 __sock_release+0xb3/0x260 net/socket.c:735
 sock_close+0x1c/0x30 net/socket.c:1526
 __fput+0x3ff/0xb50 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x150/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:70 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1d8/0x700 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:336 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x661/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802671f000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 396 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff88802671f000, ffff88802671f400)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88802671a800 pfn:0x26718
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888032ca6f01
flags: 0xfff00000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801c037280 ffffea00008ade10 ffffea00009ff610
raw: ffff88802671a800 000000020010000f 00000000f5000000 ffff888032ca6f01
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801c037280 ffffea00008ade10 ffffea00009ff610
head: ffff88802671a800 000000020010000f 00000000f5000000 ffff888032ca6f01
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 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 5595, tgid 5595 (syz-executor), ts 77604932653
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x110d/0x35b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2eb/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3462 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa9/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:3513
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7410
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x67c/0x840 mm/slub.c:5439
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 __register_sysctl_table+0xac/0x1650 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1378
 register_net_sysctl_sz+0x325/0x420 net/sysctl_net.c:172
 neigh_sysctl_register+0x326/0x660 net/core/neighbour.c:3915
 addrconf_sysctl_register+0xb9/0x200 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7396
 ipv6_add_dev+0xaf2/0x1520 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:460
 addrconf_notify+0x5db/0x1ba0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3686
 notifier_call_chain+0x99/0x3f0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xbe/0x110 net/core/dev.c:2275
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2313 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2327 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x1998/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11541
page last free pid 5437 tgid 5437 ts 57736323376 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 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:4683 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x269/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:5010
 alloc_filename fs/namei.c:147 [inline]
 do_getname+0x35/0x390 fs/namei.c:187
 class_filename_flags_constructor include/linux/fs.h:2587 [inline]
 do_sys_openat2+0xc7/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1416
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x12d/0x210 fs/open.c:1434
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802671f080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802671f100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88802671f180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88802671f200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802671f280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (30):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/27 11:55 upstream 73e3f0710014 a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/27 10:05 upstream 502d45774af0 a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/27 10:05 upstream 502d45774af0 a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/26 22:52 upstream 502d45774af0 a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/26 22:07 upstream 502d45774af0 a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/26 17:44 upstream 45c13f3f9e3b a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/25 22:31 upstream 66498c75b4f8 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/25 20:44 upstream 66498c75b4f8 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/25 10:34 upstream 66498c75b4f8 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/25 10:33 upstream 66498c75b4f8 614e416a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/23 13:35 upstream 2709dd5ae32f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/22 10:31 upstream 26260251022f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/22 10:30 upstream 26260251022f 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/22 05:25 upstream 4e69c1856bfd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/22 05:24 upstream 4e69c1856bfd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/22 05:17 upstream 4e69c1856bfd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/22 05:14 upstream 4e69c1856bfd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/21 20:38 upstream 531ed942bb0d 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/21 06:43 upstream 8dbbc7e18894 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/19 08:11 upstream bd5f485f3f02 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/18 18:26 upstream 0f23d56f17fd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/17 07:10 upstream dcb68831eac7 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/08 22:05 upstream a59f57e2aa12 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/05 06:46 upstream c21bb4193868 d4abbeac .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/05 03:40 upstream c21bb4193868 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/18 00:27 upstream ff68e5f557f6 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/04 08:24 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 9451e17e .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/20 12:08 linux-next 6a746cd265ae 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/08 08:28 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci ba5cc80fd326 e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
2026/08/07 06:58 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci db788396cbb1 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xsk_bind
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.