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KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_send_frame

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/31 20:24
Reported-by: syzbot+d47598d8a6d0d022ab97@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 19h15m, last: 19h15m
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25_send_frame (2) hams 19 7 7d11h 46d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2026/03/27 01:43
upstream general protection fault in ax25_send_frame (2) hams 10 13 1243d 1230d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25_send_frame hams 19 1 161d 161d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/31 09:06

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ax25_send_frame+0x678/0x9f0 net/ax25/ax25_out.c:75
Read of size 7 at addr ffff8880575f7008 by task udevd/6499

CPU: 1 PID: 6499 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x235/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 memcpy+0x25/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:65
 ax25_send_frame+0x678/0x9f0 net/ax25/ax25_out.c:75
 rose_send_frame+0x111/0x220 net/rose/rose_link.c:106
 rose_transmit_restart_request net/rose/rose_link.c:198 [inline]
 rose_t0timer_expiry+0x13f/0x350 net/rose/rose_link.c:83
 call_timer_fn+0x1ac/0x670 kernel/time/timer.c:1701
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1752 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x53e/0x800 kernel/time/timer.c:2023
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2036
 handle_softirqs+0x2a1/0x930 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:679
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:691
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691
RIP: 0010:get_stack_info_noinstr+0x8/0x130 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c:172
Code: 48 c7 c7 40 40 86 8a e8 96 3b 00 00 65 c6 05 0e d0 d4 75 00 eb 9b 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 00 00 cc cc 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 <53> 49 89 d6 49 89 f4 49 89 ff e8 19 01 00 00 b3 01 84 c0 0f 85 d0
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000e2cf810 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: 1ffff92001c59f20 RBX: ffffc9000e2cf8e8 RCX: ffffc9000e2cf8e8
RDX: ffffc9000e2cf8c8 RSI: ffff888028bb1dc0 RDI: ffffc9000e2cf868
RBP: ffffc9000e2cf901 R08: ffffc9000e2cf927 R09: ffffc9000e2cf8c8
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52001c59f25 R12: ffffc9000e2cf868
R13: ffffc9000e2cf8e8 R14: ffffc9000e2cf8c8 R15: ffff888028bb1dc0
 get_stack_info+0x36/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c:199
 __unwind_start+0x441/0x740 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:686
 unwind_start arch/x86/include/asm/unwind.h:64 [inline]
 arch_stack_walk+0xda/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:24
 stack_trace_save+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1755
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3700
 kernfs_fop_release+0x162/0x190 fs/kernfs/file.c:828
 __fput+0x22c/0x920 fs/file_table.c:320
 task_work_run+0x1d0/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:203
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:292 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:303
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f09bcca7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffdc7569750 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f09bd35c880 RCX: 00007f09bcca7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000055c34689c7c0
R13: 0000000000000005 R14: 00007ffdc7569c30 R15: 000055c337e5fbcc
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4509:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
 rose_add_node+0x227/0xea0 net/rose/rose_route.c:85
 rose_rt_ioctl+0xb63/0xf70 net/rose/rose_route.c:748
 rose_ioctl+0x2a7/0x7d0 net/rose/af_rose.c:1386
 sock_do_ioctl+0xfb/0x320 net/socket.c:1201
 sock_ioctl+0x4d2/0x710 net/socket.c:1320
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 7996:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1755
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3700
 rose_neigh_put include/net/rose.h:166 [inline]
 rose_timer_expiry+0x4a7/0x5d0 net/rose/rose_timer.c:183
 call_timer_fn+0x1ac/0x670 kernel/time/timer.c:1701
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1752 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x53e/0x800 kernel/time/timer.c:2023
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:2036
 handle_softirqs+0x2a1/0x930 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:679
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:691
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880575f7000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff8880575f7000, ffff8880575f7200)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00015d7d00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x575f4
head:ffffea00015d7d00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff888017441c80
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4281, tgid 4281 (syz-executor), ts 71602439923, free_ts 19570030102
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2559
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2566 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a1e/0x1ab0 mm/page_alloc.c:4357
 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5657
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1799
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1944 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1997
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a0/0x260 mm/slub.c:3398
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x9e/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:956
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:446 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x22a/0x7e0 net/core/skbuff.c:515
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1303 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:991 [inline]
 mpls_netconf_notify_devconf+0x46/0xf0 net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1188
 mpls_dev_sysctl_register+0x249/0x2f0 net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1425
 mpls_add_dev net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1476 [inline]
 mpls_dev_notify+0x24e/0x760 net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1616
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:87 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:455
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2052 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2066 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x163f/0x1b00 net/core/dev.c:10263
 veth_newlink+0x830/0xc80 drivers/net/veth.c:1756
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3422 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1542/0x2080 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1486 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1536 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3413
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3508
 free_contig_range+0x9d/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:9625
 destroy_args+0xf0/0xa0a mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1031
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x33c/0x38e mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1359
 do_one_initcall+0x26a/0x840 init/main.c:1310
 do_initcall_level+0x137/0x1e4 init/main.c:1383
 do_initcalls+0x4b/0x8a init/main.c:1399
 kernel_init_freeable+0x415/0x5be init/main.c:1638
 kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1526
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880575f6f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8880575f6f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8880575f7000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff8880575f7080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880575f7100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	48 c7 c7 40 40 86 8a 	mov    $0xffffffff8a864040,%rdi
   7:	e8 96 3b 00 00       	call   0x3ba2
   c:	65 c6 05 0e d0 d4 75 	movb   $0x0,%gs:0x75d4d00e(%rip)        # 0x75d4d022
  13:	00
  14:	eb 9b                	jmp    0xffffffb1
  16:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
  18:	cc                   	int3
  19:	cc                   	int3
  1a:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
  1c:	cc                   	int3
  1d:	cc                   	int3
  1e:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
  20:	cc                   	int3
  21:	cc                   	int3
  22:	41 57                	push   %r15
  24:	41 56                	push   %r14
  26:	41 55                	push   %r13
  28:	41 54                	push   %r12
* 2a:	53                   	push   %rbx <-- trapping instruction
  2b:	49 89 d6             	mov    %rdx,%r14
  2e:	49 89 f4             	mov    %rsi,%r12
  31:	49 89 ff             	mov    %rdi,%r15
  34:	e8 19 01 00 00       	call   0x152
  39:	b3 01                	mov    $0x1,%bl
  3b:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  3d:	0f                   	.byte 0xf
  3e:	85 d0                	test   %edx,%eax

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/31 20:23 linux-6.1.y 1989cd3d56e2 aeea1c72 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_send_frame
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.