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KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/22 22:11
Reported-by: syzbot+c103c1bbd97dad306fc9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d11h, last: 2h06m
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue 22 C 52 21h15m 10d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/14 23:49
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue 22 2 6h44m 2d16h 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/06/22 14:15
upstream general protection fault in rcu_segcblist_enqueue kvm-x86 2 C done done 368 1752d 1816d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/08 16:11

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rcu_segcblist_enqueue+0x85/0xa0 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c:250
Write of size 8 at addr ffff8881112b5d90 by task syz.2.17/399

CPU: 1 PID: 399 Comm: syz.2.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x1a7/0x208 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:435 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x100/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x17/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:314
 rcu_segcblist_enqueue+0x85/0xa0 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c:250
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:2998 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x4df/0x1090 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3054
 security_inode_free+0xb4/0xd0 security/security.c:984
 __destroy_inode+0x175/0x4f0 fs/inode.c:258
 destroy_inode fs/inode.c:281 [inline]
 evict+0x7e8/0x940 fs/inode.c:629
 iput_final fs/inode.c:1736 [inline]
 iput+0x654/0x7e0 fs/inode.c:1762
 dentry_unlink_inode+0x2d5/0x390 fs/dcache.c:378
 __dentry_kill+0x45b/0x660 fs/dcache.c:583
 dentry_kill+0xc0/0x2a0 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0x42/0x80 fs/dcache.c:883
 __fput+0x4bd/0x730 fs/file_table.c:294
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:314
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:189
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:188 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xcb/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:172
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x76/0xa0 kernel/entry/common.c:199
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:274
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:56
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7fed5471ce59
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:00007ffd914e00f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffd914e01e0 RCX: 00007fed5471ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000006526 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b32c20000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fed54995fac R14: 00007fed54995fa8 R15: 00007fed54995fa0

Allocated by task 399:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:430 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:509 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x100 mm/kasan/common.c:518
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x19f/0x330 mm/slub.c:4038
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:560 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:667 [inline]
 l2tp_session_create+0x39/0xb60 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1616
 pppol2tp_connect+0xbf5/0x1640 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:772
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1866 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3ce/0x450 net/socket.c:1883
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1893 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1890 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1890
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Freed by task 7:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4a/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x23/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x125/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:362
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:370
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:220 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1600 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc5/0x190 mm/slub.c:1626
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3208 [inline]
 kfree+0xc0/0x270 mm/slub.c:4196
 l2tp_session_free net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:168 [inline]
 l2tp_session_put+0xb2/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:193
 l2tp_session_delete+0x3a9/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1589
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1235 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x180/0x3d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1273
 process_one_work+0x6fd/0xbc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2301
 worker_thread+0xa8e/0x13c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2447
 kthread+0x324/0x3b0 kernel/kthread.c:313
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xd2/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc+0xb/0x10 mm/kasan/generic.c:358
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:2980 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x11a/0x1090 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3054
 pppol2tp_release+0x1e3/0x2b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:447
 __sock_release net/socket.c:597 [inline]
 sock_close+0xb8/0x200 net/socket.c:1286
 __fput+0x2dc/0x730 fs/file_table.c:281
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:314
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:189
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:188 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xcb/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:172
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x76/0xa0 kernel/entry/common.c:199
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:274
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:56
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881112b5c00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 400 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff8881112b5c00, ffff8881112b5e00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea000444ad00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1112b4
head:ffffea000444ad00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 4000000000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888100043080
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 365, ts 25913548901, free_ts 25896318851
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:35 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:2456 [inline]
 prep_new_page+0x176/0x190 mm/page_alloc.c:2462
 get_page_from_freelist+0x225f/0x23f0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x29a/0x640 mm/page_alloc.c:5384
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1813 [inline]
 new_slab+0x84/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:1874
 new_slab_objects mm/slub.c:2632 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x2f8/0x4c0 mm/slub.c:2796
 __slab_alloc+0x63/0xa0 mm/slub.c:2836
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2918 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x1f9/0x330 mm/slub.c:4034
 __kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:421 [inline]
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:578 [inline]
 kzalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:678 [inline]
 qdisc_alloc+0x79/0x720 net/sched/sch_generic.c:864
 qdisc_create_dflt+0x6b/0x390 net/sched/sch_generic.c:927
 attach_one_default_qdisc net/sched/sch_generic.c:1090 [inline]
 netdev_for_each_tx_queue include/linux/netdevice.h:2321 [inline]
 attach_default_qdiscs net/sched/sch_generic.c:1108 [inline]
 dev_activate+0x292/0x11c0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1167
 __dev_open+0x3e9/0x500 net/core/dev.c:1551
 __dev_change_flags+0x1e4/0x6a0 net/core/dev.c:8547
 dev_change_flags+0x80/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8618
 do_setlink+0xb19/0x29a0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2736
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3414 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x13e6/0x1830 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3534
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x9e9/0xca0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5614
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:28 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1349 [inline]
 __free_pages_ok+0x80b/0x830 mm/page_alloc.c:1629
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:5445 [inline]
 __free_pages+0xd8/0x390 mm/page_alloc.c:5454
 __free_slab+0xcf/0x190 mm/slub.c:1899
 free_slab mm/slub.c:1914 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:1920 [inline]
 unfreeze_partials+0x150/0x180 mm/slub.c:2415
 put_cpu_partial+0xc1/0x180 mm/slub.c:2451
 __slab_free+0x2c9/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:3100
 do_slab_free mm/slub.c:3196 [inline]
 ___cache_free+0x10e/0x130 mm/slub.c:3215
 qlink_free+0x50/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:157
 qlist_free_all+0x5f/0xb0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14a/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:440
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:244 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x5d/0x2f0 mm/slab.h:580
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2952 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x15a/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2965
 kmem_cache_alloc_node include/linux/slab.h:426 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x9e/0x520 net/core/skbuff.c:200
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1178 [inline]
 netlink_sendmsg+0x693/0xb70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1889
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x467/0x620 net/socket.c:2006

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8881112b5c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8881112b5d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8881112b5d80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff8881112b5e00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8881112b5e80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (14):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/22 22:00 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/25 04:18 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 302586aa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/24 08:14 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 042555ff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/23 21:56 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 4b1d8f01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/23 18:55 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 4b1d8f01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/23 06:54 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/23 02:31 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 19:32 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 19:28 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 19:16 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 19:15 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 18:59 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 18:54 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 18:49 android13-5.10-lts 72aefab72b3d 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.