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

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/15 20:27
Subsystems: hams
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Reported-by: syzbot+df52f4216bf7b4d768e7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 371d, last: 8d07h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Fix bisection: the issue occurs on the latest tested release (bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [hams?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl 0 (1) 2026/01/15 20:27
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl origin:upstream 19 C error 4 327d 377d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/01/03 08:20
Last patch testing requests (14)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/01/02 13:49 23m dvyukov@google.com patch upstream report log
2025/12/25 08:22 21m retest repro net report log
2025/12/25 08:22 30m retest repro net report log
2025/12/25 08:22 37m retest repro upstream report log
2025/12/25 08:22 32m retest repro upstream report log
2025/12/25 08:22 22m retest repro net report log
2025/12/11 03:25 1h11m retest repro net-next report log
2025/12/11 03:25 46m retest repro net-next report log
2025/12/11 03:25 1h11m retest repro net-next report log
2025/12/11 03:25 1h03m retest repro net-next report log
2025/12/11 03:32 30m retest repro upstream report log
2025/09/29 08:00 24m edumazet@google.com patch upstream report log
2025/04/14 03:52 18m edumazet@google.com upstream report log
2025/02/19 13:09 54m edumazet@google.com upstream error

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nr_dec_obs net/netrom/nr_route.c:471 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nr_rt_ioctl+0x599/0xfb0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:692
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88807ee561b2 by task syz-executor425/6336

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6336 Comm: syz-executor425 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc6-syzkaller-00290-gbe548645527a #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
 nr_dec_obs net/netrom/nr_route.c:471 [inline]
 nr_rt_ioctl+0x599/0xfb0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:692
 sock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1209
 sock_ioctl+0x626/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1328
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff6b4589869
Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 31 1a 00 00 90 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 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffd2b36d5d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007ff6b4589869
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000089e2 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00007ff6b45d7214 R09: 00007ff6b45d7214
R10: 00007ff6b45d7214 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd2b36d5fc
R13: 00007ffd2b36d630 R14: 00007ffd2b36d610 R15: 0000000000000067
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6336:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x98/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x243/0x390 mm/slub.c:4329
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:901 [inline]
 nr_add_node+0x856/0x2230 net/netrom/nr_route.c:146
 nr_rt_ioctl+0xd43/0xfb0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:651
 sock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1209
 sock_ioctl+0x626/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1328
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 6336:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:582
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x59/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2353 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4613 [inline]
 kfree+0x196/0x430 mm/slub.c:4761
 nr_dec_obs net/netrom/nr_route.c:469 [inline]
 nr_rt_ioctl+0x2e5/0xfb0 net/netrom/nr_route.c:692
 sock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1209
 sock_ioctl+0x626/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1328
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xf5/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807ee56180
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-64 of size 64
The buggy address is located 50 bytes inside of
 freed 64-byte region [ffff88807ee56180, ffff88807ee561c0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7ee56
ksm flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88801ac418c0 ffffea0000cf4700 0000000000000007
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080200020 00000001f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 5824, tgid 5824 (syz-executor425), ts 77902070664, free_ts 77575093775
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f3/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1558
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1566 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x3651/0x37a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3476
 __alloc_pages_noprof+0x292/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4753
 alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x680 mm/mempolicy.c:2269
 alloc_slab_page+0x6a/0x110 mm/slub.c:2423
 allocate_slab+0x5a/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:2589
 new_slab mm/slub.c:2642 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xc27/0x14a0 mm/slub.c:3830
 __slab_alloc+0x58/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3920
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3995 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4156 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x27b/0x390 mm/slub.c:4324
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:901 [inline]
 __netdev_adjacent_dev_insert+0x157/0x8d0 net/core/dev.c:7889
 __netdev_adjacent_dev_link_lists net/core/dev.c:7981 [inline]
 __netdev_adjacent_dev_link_neighbour net/core/dev.c:8010 [inline]
 __netdev_upper_dev_link+0x404/0x670 net/core/dev.c:8070
 netdev_upper_dev_link+0x9e/0xf0 net/core/dev.c:8116
 ipvlan_link_new+0x5cb/0xa30 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:621
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x2ee/0xa40 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3786
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3897 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1c7e/0x2210 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4012
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x791/0xcf0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6922
page last free pid 5829 tgid 5829 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1127 [inline]
 free_unref_page+0xd2c/0x1000 mm/page_alloc.c:2659
 __slab_free+0x2c2/0x380 mm/slub.c:4524
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x9a/0x140 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14f/0x170 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x23/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:329
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4119 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4168 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1d9/0x390 mm/slub.c:4324
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:901 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1037 [inline]
 kset_create lib/kobject.c:965 [inline]
 kset_create_and_add+0x5b/0x170 lib/kobject.c:1008
 register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:1890 [inline]
 netdev_register_kobject+0x181/0x2e0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2143
 register_netdevice+0x12c5/0x1b00 net/core/dev.c:10618
 veth_newlink+0x3fd/0xb00 drivers/net/veth.c:1815
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x2ee/0xa40 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3786
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3897 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1c7e/0x2210 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4012
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x791/0xcf0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6922
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e3/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2542
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1321 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7f6/0x990 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1347
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8e4/0xcb0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1891

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807ee56080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807ee56100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88807ee56180: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                     ^
 ffff88807ee56200: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807ee56280: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (23):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/01/13 04:34 upstream be548645527a 6dbc6a9b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/01/09 23:14 upstream eea6e4b4dfb8 40f46913 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/10/19 08:49 upstream 1c64efcb083c 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/10/10 22:19 upstream 917167ed1211 ff1712fe .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/10/10 07:26 upstream 5472d60c129f ff1712fe .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/10/04 06:10 upstream 2ccb4d203fe4 49379ee0 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/09/21 20:22 upstream f975f08c2e89 67c37560 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/09/02 17:28 upstream b320789d6883 96a211bc .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/08/24 04:27 upstream 8d245acc1e88 bf27483f .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/08/10 13:45 upstream 561c80369df0 32a0e5ed .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/10/08 07:56 net 943af6478807 7e2882b3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/09/28 16:46 net 012ea489aeda 001c9061 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/09/26 09:22 net 4ff71af020ae 0abd0691 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/09/25 06:41 net b7e32ae66642 0abd0691 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/09/20 11:27 net a35c04de2565 67c37560 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/04/30 08:20 net b936a9b8d4a5 85a5a23f .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/11/27 03:10 net-next ab084f0b8d6d d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/11/16 22:08 net-next c9dfb92de073 f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/11/16 19:36 net-next c9dfb92de073 f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/11/15 01:27 net-next df58ee7d8faf f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/11/09 00:27 net-next a0c3aefb08cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2025/12/26 09:08 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d1b870e1 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
2026/01/07 23:14 net 653267321f05 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nr_rt_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.