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KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_ct_iterate_cleanup_net

Status: premoderation: reported on 2025/06/13 13:55
Reported-by: syzbot+d343986b5bef49c3f8fa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d05h, last: 3d05h

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in net_generic include/net/netns/generic.h:45 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nf_ct_pernet include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:371 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nf_ct_iterate_cleanup_net+0xcb/0x1f0 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2457
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888126d75a38 by task kworker/1:7/1133

CPU: 1 PID: 1133 Comm: kworker/1:7 Tainted: G        W         5.15.185-syzkaller-00339-ge678c93d43cc #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Workqueue: events iterate_cleanup_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xee/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:427 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xf1/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:444
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:309
 net_generic include/net/netns/generic.h:45 [inline]
 nf_ct_pernet include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:371 [inline]
 nf_ct_iterate_cleanup_net+0xcb/0x1f0 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2457
 iterate_cleanup_work+0x69/0x120 net/netfilter/nf_nat_masquerade.c:83
 process_one_work+0x6be/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2325
 worker_thread+0xa59/0x1200 kernel/workqueue.c:2472
 kthread+0x411/0x500 kernel/kthread.c:337
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 283:
 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:433 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0xbd/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:466
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:217 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4f/0x2b0 mm/slab.h:550
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3250 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0xf7/0x260 mm/slub.c:3255
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:737 [inline]
 net_alloc net/core/net_namespace.c:408 [inline]
 copy_net_ns+0x145/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:463
 create_new_namespaces+0x3a2/0x660 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x120/0x170 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
 ksys_unshare+0x4ac/0x7b0 kernel/fork.c:3242
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3316 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3314 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3314
 x64_sys_call+0x442/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:273
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Freed by task 3019:
 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:365
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:373
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:193 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1723 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc2/0x190 mm/slub.c:1749
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3521 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x100/0x320 mm/slub.c:3539
 net_free net/core/net_namespace.c:437 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0xa2d/0xad0 net/core/net_namespace.c:620
 process_one_work+0x6be/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2325
 worker_thread+0xa59/0x1200 kernel/workqueue.c:2472
 kthread+0x411/0x500 kernel/kthread.c:337
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888126d75000
 which belongs to the cache net_namespace of size 3968
The buggy address is located 2616 bytes inside of
 3968-byte region [ffff888126d75000, ffff888126d75f80)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00049b5c00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888126d71000 pfn:0x126d70
head:ffffea00049b5c00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff8881001c4f00
raw: ffff888126d71000 0000000080080004 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 283, ts 22166879240, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x192/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2605
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2611
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2cc5/0x2d50 mm/page_alloc.c:4485
 __alloc_pages+0x18f/0x440 mm/page_alloc.c:5789
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1932 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa1/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:1995
 ___slab_alloc+0x381/0x810 mm/slub.c:3028
 __slab_alloc+0x49/0x90 mm/slub.c:3115
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3206 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3250 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x138/0x260 mm/slub.c:3255
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:737 [inline]
 net_alloc net/core/net_namespace.c:408 [inline]
 copy_net_ns+0x145/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:463
 create_new_namespaces+0x3a2/0x660 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x120/0x170 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
 ksys_unshare+0x4ac/0x7b0 kernel/fork.c:3242
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3316 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3314 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3314
 x64_sys_call+0x442/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:273
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888126d75900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888126d75980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888126d75a00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                        ^
 ffff888126d75a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888126d75b00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/06/13 13:54 android13-5.15-lts e678c93d43cc 98683f8f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in nf_ct_iterate_cleanup_net
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.