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KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/06/23 09:58
Reported-by: syzbot+debdd4ed13bf7673952e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 24d, last: 22h34m
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work 19 22 5d00h 33d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/06/14 19:53
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work 19 5 24m 20d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/06/27 08:43
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_tunnel_del_work (2) net 22 syz unreliable done 2 1253d 1319d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/06/10 16:21
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_tunnel_del_work net 22 1 1688d 1683d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/04/01 19:17
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work net 19 C done 99 738d 752d 27/29 fixed on 2024/08/14 03:44

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hlist_unhashed include/linux/list.h:808 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hlist_del_init include/linux/list.h:865 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1232 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0xcd/0x3d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1273
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811adbac80 by task kworker/u4:2/112

CPU: 1 PID: 112 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Tainted: G        W         syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/25/2026
Workqueue: l2tp l2tp_tunnel_del_work
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_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:309
 hlist_unhashed include/linux/list.h:808 [inline]
 hlist_del_init include/linux/list.h:865 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1232 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0xcd/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

Allocated by task 5834:
 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:1867 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3ce/0x450 net/socket.c:1884
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1894 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1891 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1891
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Freed by task 5836:
 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
 pppol2tp_ioctl+0x748/0x960 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:-1
 pppox_ioctl+0x1e4/0x320 drivers/net/ppp/pppox.c:93
 sock_do_ioctl+0xda/0x380 net/socket.c:1068
 sock_ioctl+0x472/0x740 net/socket.c:1208
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:48 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:753 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x121/0x1a0 fs/ioctl.c:739
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0x90 fs/ioctl.c:739
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

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
 kvfree_call_rcu+0x117/0x670 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3539
 drop_sysctl_table+0x2f5/0x430 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1684
 drop_sysctl_table+0x2e4/0x430 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1687
 unregister_sysctl_table+0x75/0x120 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1722
 unregister_net_sysctl_table+0x15/0x20 net/sysctl_net.c:127
 __addrconf_sysctl_unregister net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7091 [inline]
 addrconf_sysctl_unregister net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7119 [inline]
 addrconf_ifdown+0x1597/0x1890 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3939
 addrconf_notify+0x3bd/0xea0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x90/0x100 kernel/notifier.c:410
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info net/core/dev.c:2052 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2064 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2078 [inline]
 unregister_netdevice_many+0x100e/0x19f0 net/core/dev.c:10778
 vti6_exit_batch_net+0x273/0x2c0 net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c:1198
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:190 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x5fe/0xb80 net/core/net_namespace.c:609
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88811adbac00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 128 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff88811adbac00, ffff88811adbae00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00046b6e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x11adb8
head:ffffea00046b6e00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ffff888100043080
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 0x1d2a20(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 288, ts 185691433505, free_ts 185583901041
 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_track_caller+0x1e4/0x310 mm/slub.c:4541
 __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:144 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0xdc/0x520 net/core/skbuff.c:212
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 ndisc_alloc_skb net/ipv6/ndisc.c:422 [inline]
 ndisc_send_rs+0x310/0x960 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:691
 addrconf_rs_timer+0x35a/0x600 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3967
 call_timer_fn+0x38/0x290 kernel/time/timer.c:1450
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1495 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x637/0x9a0 kernel/time/timer.c:1789
 run_timer_softirq+0x6a/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1802
 __do_softirq+0x255/0x563 kernel/softirq.c:309
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_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1421 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x2b7/0x2d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3336
 free_unref_page mm/page_alloc.c:3391 [inline]
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:5443 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x146/0x390 mm/page_alloc.c:5454
 __vunmap+0x801/0x980 mm/vmalloc.c:2307
 __vfree mm/vmalloc.c:2356 [inline]
 vfree+0x61/0x90 mm/vmalloc.c:2387
 kcov_mmap+0x8f/0x130 kernel/kcov.c:489
 call_mmap include/linux/fs.h:2071 [inline]
 mmap_file+0x60/0xb0 mm/util.c:1085
 __mmap_region mm/mmap.c:1884 [inline]
 mmap_region+0x11fd/0x19c0 mm/mmap.c:3075
 do_mmap+0x85f/0xf50 mm/mmap.c:1661
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x1f4/0x350 mm/util.c:543
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x16f/0x1e0 mm/mmap.c:1712
 __do_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:95 [inline]
 __se_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:86 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mmap+0xfa/0x110 arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:86
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88811adbab80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88811adbac00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88811adbac80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff88811adbad00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88811adbad80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 112 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x120/0x1a0 lib/refcount.c:28
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 112 Comm: kworker/u4:2 Tainted: G    B   W         syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 06/25/2026
Workqueue: l2tp l2tp_tunnel_del_work
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x120/0x1a0 lib/refcount.c:28
Code: 04 01 48 c7 c7 e0 48 40 85 e8 7c ca 3a 02 0f 0b eb c3 e8 73 89 26 ff c6 05 b1 75 82 04 01 48 c7 c7 40 49 40 85 e8 60 ca 3a 02 <0f> 0b eb a7 e8 57 89 26 ff c6 05 92 75 82 04 01 48 c7 c7 60 48 40
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000b47c58 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 180d8b5c229f4100 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: ffff888111fc93c0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90000b47c68 R08: ffff8881f7027453 R09: 1ffff1103ee04e8a
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed103ee04e8b R12: ffff888126f0c020
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f73e891a2f8 CR3: 000000010b1de000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:283 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]
 l2tp_session_put+0xcb/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:192
 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
---[ end trace 0dd940c30ef17d87 ]---

Crashes (35):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/16 23:46 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 71b49442 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/16 02:43 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 27a8bd60 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/15 23:29 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 27a8bd60 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/15 20:01 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 a4ed0f4f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/15 18:58 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 a4ed0f4f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/15 12:06 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 a4ed0f4f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/15 07:47 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/14 11:27 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/13 09:15 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/12 17:55 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/12 15:26 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/12 00:46 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/12 00:46 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 d78ea535 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/10 19:55 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 99e64375 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/10 17:09 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 99e64375 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/08 14:16 android13-5.10-lts 50b3a256e550 88a4b44c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/08 06:40 android13-5.10-lts e7cdd7d65ada 76cdc0c0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/08 03:46 android13-5.10-lts e7cdd7d65ada 76cdc0c0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/04 18:34 android13-5.10-lts 1bb06dbd8c78 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/03 20:43 android13-5.10-lts 1bb06dbd8c78 58bf2096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/03 20:38 android13-5.10-lts 1bb06dbd8c78 58bf2096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/02 03:23 android13-5.10-lts 1bb06dbd8c78 27192279 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/01 11:29 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 00a5cf1c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/07/01 07:28 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 00a5cf1c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/28 17:50 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/28 13:46 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/28 01:12 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/27 17:56 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/27 15:45 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/27 01:11 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/26 17:36 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/26 10:23 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 7ff32d8b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/25 00:01 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 302586aa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/24 14:01 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 302586aa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
2026/06/23 09:57 android13-5.10-lts 79e905dd56a7 5a630be6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.