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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25_disconnect

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/24 10:48
Reported-by: syzbot+d06234942ee88191e32b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d23h, last: 1d23h

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ax25_disconnect+0x19c/0x3b0 net/ax25/ax25_subr.c:283
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807aea6bc0 by task syz.0.3011/17720

CPU: 1 PID: 17720 Comm: syz.0.3011 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xac/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 ax25_disconnect+0x19c/0x3b0 net/ax25/ax25_subr.c:283
 call_timer_fn+0x16e/0x530 kernel/time/timer.c:1700
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1751 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x52d/0x7d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2022
 run_timer_softirq+0x67/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2035
 handle_softirqs+0x280/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:612 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:452 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xc7/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:661
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:673
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:unix_copy_addr net/unix/af_unix.c:2381 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x4f9/0xd60 net/unix/af_unix.c:2442
Code: 89 d8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 48 89 df e8 1c 3d b9 f8 41 be 18 05 00 00 4c 03 33 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 <74> 08 4c 89 f7 e8 fd 3c b9 f8 49 8b 1e 48 85 db 0f 84 90 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000bd4f700 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 1ffff11004ba08a3 RBX: ffff888024405658 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000db6e000 RSI: 000000000007ffff RDI: ffffc9000bd4fd20
RBP: ffffc9000bd4f898 R08: ffffffff90da75af R09: 1ffffffff21b4eb5
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff21b4eb6 R12: 1ffff920017a9fa4
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff888025d04518 R15: ffff888024405640
 sock_recvmsg_nosec+0x82/0xd0 net/socket.c:1046
 ____sys_recvmsg+0x49b/0x5b0 net/socket.c:2812
 ___sys_recvmsg+0x1b6/0x510 net/socket.c:2856
 do_recvmmsg+0x360/0x7d0 net/socket.c:2950
 __sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3029 [inline]
 __do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3052 [inline]
 __se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3045 [inline]
 __x64_sys_recvmmsg+0x191/0x240 net/socket.c:3045
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fe2dff8eec9
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:00007fe2e0edd038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012b
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe2e01e6090 RCX: 00007fe2dff8eec9
RDX: 0000000000010106 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fe2e0011f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fe2e01e6128 R14: 00007fe2e01e6090 R15: 00007fffa94fc748
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 12026:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:374 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:383
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 ax25_create_cb+0x4e/0x580 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:531
 ax25_send_frame+0x445/0x9f0 net/ax25/ax25_out.c:67
 rose_send_frame+0x111/0x220 net/rose/rose_link.c:106
 rose_transmit_restart_request net/rose/rose_link.c:198 [inline]
 rose_transmit_link+0x46a/0x740 net/rose/rose_link.c:284
 rose_write_internal+0x11d1/0x1ab0 net/rose/rose_subr.c:198
 rose_connect+0x909/0x10a0 net/rose/af_rose.c:880
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2057 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x397/0x420 net/socket.c:2074
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2084 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2081 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2081
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 17720:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:236
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
 ax25_cb_put include/net/ax25.h:281 [inline]
 rose_link_failed+0xf9/0x150 net/rose/rose_route.c:830
 ax25_link_failed+0x57/0xa0 net/ax25/ax25_iface.c:196
 ax25_disconnect+0x17e/0x3b0 net/ax25/ax25_subr.c:281
 call_timer_fn+0x16e/0x530 kernel/time/timer.c:1700
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1751 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x52d/0x7d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2022
 run_timer_softirq+0x67/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2035
 handle_softirqs+0x280/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:612 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:452 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xc7/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:661
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:673
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 kvfree_call_rcu+0xee/0x780 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3452
 neigh_periodic_work+0x3f7/0xd70 net/core/neighbour.c:1010
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807aea6800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 960 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff88807aea6800, ffff88807aea6c00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001eba800 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7aea0
head:ffffea0001eba800 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017841dc0 ffffea0001603600 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1f2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_MEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 1000, tgid 1000 (kworker/u4:6), ts 124433242007, free_ts 124331252215
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1cd/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1554
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
 __alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x170 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc6d/0x1300 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a2/0x260 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xa2/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1027
 kmalloc_reserve+0x117/0x260 net/core/skbuff.c:581
 __alloc_skb+0x138/0x2c0 net/core/skbuff.c:650
 __netdev_alloc_skb+0x10c/0x500 net/core/skbuff.c:714
 __netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align include/linux/skbuff.h:3292 [inline]
 netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align include/linux/skbuff.h:3302 [inline]
 batadv_iv_ogm_aggregate_new net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:557 [inline]
 batadv_iv_ogm_queue_add+0x73e/0xcf0 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:669
 batadv_iv_ogm_schedule_buff net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:832 [inline]
 batadv_iv_ogm_schedule+0x815/0xe90 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:867
 batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x731/0x840 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1711
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
 __slab_free+0x35e/0x410 mm/slub.c:3736
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:305
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3503 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3510 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x11e/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:3519
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:711 [inline]
 __kernfs_new_node+0xd8/0x7e0 fs/kernfs/dir.c:624
 kernfs_new_node+0x14c/0x260 fs/kernfs/dir.c:700
 __kernfs_create_file+0x4b/0x2e0 fs/kernfs/file.c:1068
 sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0x238/0x300 fs/sysfs/file.c:294
 create_files fs/sysfs/group.c:64 [inline]
 internal_create_group+0x428/0xd00 fs/sysfs/group.c:152
 internal_create_groups fs/sysfs/group.c:192 [inline]
 sysfs_create_groups+0x59/0x120 fs/sysfs/group.c:218
 device_add_groups drivers/base/core.c:2785 [inline]
 device_add_attrs+0xdf/0x810 drivers/base/core.c:2894
 device_add+0x528/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3637

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807aea6a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807aea6b00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807aea6b80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                           ^
 ffff88807aea6c00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807aea6c80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	89 d8                	mov    %ebx,%eax
   2:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
   6:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1)
   b:	74 08                	je     0x15
   d:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  10:	e8 1c 3d b9 f8       	call   0xf8b93d31
  15:	41 be 18 05 00 00    	mov    $0x518,%r14d
  1b:	4c 03 33             	add    (%rbx),%r14
  1e:	4c 89 f0             	mov    %r14,%rax
  21:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
  25:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1)
* 2a:	74 08                	je     0x34 <-- trapping instruction
  2c:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
  2f:	e8 fd 3c b9 f8       	call   0xf8b93d31
  34:	49 8b 1e             	mov    (%r14),%rbx
  37:	48 85 db             	test   %rbx,%rbx
  3a:	0f 84 90 00 00 00    	je     0xd0

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/24 10:47 linux-6.6.y af1544b5d072 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25_disconnect
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.