syzbot


KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_find_cb

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/07/23 00:35
Reported-by: syzbot+c18cee25361d947bc14b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d15h, last: 4d15h

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ax25_find_cb+0x174/0x3a0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:232
Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000db0afc08 by task syz.3.303/5299

CPU: 0 PID: 5299 Comm: syz.3.303 Not tainted 5.15.189-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x43c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:152
 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:216
 __dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xf8/0x160 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x78/0x30c mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xec/0x15c mm/kasan/report.c:451
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x44/0x50 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:309
 ax25_find_cb+0x174/0x3a0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:232
 rose_link_up net/rose/rose_link.c:129 [inline]
 rose_transmit_link+0x168/0x680 net/rose/rose_link.c:271
 rose_write_internal+0xee8/0x17c4 net/rose/rose_subr.c:198
 rose_release+0x228/0x544 net/rose/af_rose.c:670
 __sock_release net/socket.c:649 [inline]
 sock_close+0xb4/0x1f8 net/socket.c:1336
 __fput+0x1c0/0x7f8 fs/file_table.c:311
 ____fput+0x20/0x30 fs/file_table.c:339
 task_work_run+0x12c/0x1e0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 get_signal+0x1240/0x1340 kernel/signal.c:2672
 do_signal arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:893 [inline]
 do_notify_resume+0x35c/0x3128 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:946
 prepare_exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:133 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:138 [inline]
 el0_svc+0xf0/0x1e0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:609
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:626
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:584

Allocated by task 4840:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb0/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:264 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x274/0x3fc mm/slub.c:3247
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:735 [inline]
 ax25_dev_device_up+0x5c/0x540 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:55
 ax25_device_event+0x504/0x590 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:139
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xd4/0x164 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info net/core/dev.c:2049 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x250/0x46c net/core/dev.c:-1
 dev_change_flags+0xc8/0x154 net/core/dev.c:8929
 dev_ifsioc+0x504/0xef4 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:324
 dev_ioctl+0x4d0/0xc94 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:587
 sock_do_ioctl+0x18c/0x240 net/socket.c:1154
 sock_ioctl+0x5c8/0x87c net/socket.c:1257
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x14c/0x1c8 fs/ioctl.c:860
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
 el0_svc_common+0x138/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:142
 do_el0_svc+0x58/0x14c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:181
 el0_svc+0x78/0x1e0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:608
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:626
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:584

Freed by task 5331:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4c/0x84 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x4c mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x118/0x164 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x28 mm/kasan/common.c:374
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1705 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x128/0x1e8 mm/slub.c:1731
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3499 [inline]
 kfree+0x170/0x40c mm/slub.c:4559
 ax25_dev_put include/net/ax25.h:302 [inline]
 ax25_release+0x564/0x814 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1062
 __sock_release net/socket.c:649 [inline]
 sock_close+0xb4/0x1f8 net/socket.c:1336
 __fput+0x1c0/0x7f8 fs/file_table.c:311
 ____fput+0x20/0x30 fs/file_table.c:339
 task_work_run+0x12c/0x1e0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 do_notify_resume+0x24b4/0x3128 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:949
 prepare_exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:133 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:138 [inline]
 el0_svc+0xf0/0x1e0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:609
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:626
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:584

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x38/0x68 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xcc/0x114 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 __call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:3011 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x114/0x8fc kernel/rcu/tree.c:3091
 rhashtable_rehash_table lib/rhashtable.c:345 [inline]
 rht_deferred_worker+0x146c/0x1bc8 lib/rhashtable.c:429
 process_one_work+0x79c/0x1140 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0x8f4/0x101c kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x374/0x454 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:855

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff0000db0afc00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 256-byte region [ffff0000db0afc00, ffff0000db0afd00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:00000000c0080809 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x11b0ae
head:00000000c0080809 order:1 compound_mapcount:0
flags: 0x5ffc00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 05ffc00000010200 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ffff0000c0002480
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff0000db0afb00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff0000db0afb80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff0000db0afc00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff0000db0afc80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff0000db0afd00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/23 00:58 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 8e9d1dc1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_find_cb
2025/07/23 00:34 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 8e9d1dc1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_find_cb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.