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KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pnet_find_base_ndev

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/11 02:45
Subsystems: smc
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Reported-by: syzbot+ea28e9d85be2f327b6c6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d10h, last: 1d10h
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH v1 net 2/8] smc: Fix use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev(). 1 (1) 2025/09/11 03:05
[syzbot] [smc?] KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pnet_find_base_ndev 0 (1) 2025/09/11 02:45
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __pnet_find_base_ndev (2) smc 19 2 194d 227d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/09 10:19
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __pnet_find_base_ndev smc 19 1 432d 384d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/13 22:18
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __pnet_find_base_ndev (3) smc 19 1 77d 77d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/07/30 23:16

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev+0x1b1/0x1c0 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:926
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888036bac33a by task syz.0.3632/18609

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 18609 Comm: syz.0.3632 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __pnet_find_base_ndev+0x1b1/0x1c0 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:926
 pnet_find_base_ndev net/smc/smc_pnet.c:946 [inline]
 smc_pnet_find_ism_by_pnetid net/smc/smc_pnet.c:1103 [inline]
 smc_pnet_find_ism_resource+0xef/0x390 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:1154
 smc_find_ism_device net/smc/af_smc.c:1030 [inline]
 smc_find_proposal_devices net/smc/af_smc.c:1115 [inline]
 __smc_connect+0x372/0x1890 net/smc/af_smc.c:1545
 smc_connect+0x877/0xd90 net/smc/af_smc.c:1715
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2086 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x313/0x440 net/socket.c:2105
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2111 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2108 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2108
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f47cbf8eba9
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:00007f47ccdb1038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f47cc1d5fa0 RCX: 00007f47cbf8eba9
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000200000000280 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: 00007f47cc011e19 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f47cc1d6038 R14: 00007f47cc1d5fa0 R15: 00007ffc512f8aa8
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888036bacd00 pfn:0x36bac
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001243d08 ffff8880b863fdc0 0000000000000000
raw: ffff888036bacd00 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x446dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_COMP), pid 16741, tgid 16741 (syz-executor), ts 343313197788, free_ts 380670750466
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 ___kmalloc_large_node+0x5f/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:4317
 __kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x18/0x90 mm/slub.c:4348
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x6d/0x5f0 mm/slub.c:5067
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0xa3/0x11b0 net/core/dev.c:11812
 tun_set_iff+0x532/0xef0 drivers/net/tun.c:2775
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x788/0x1df0 drivers/net/tun.c:3085
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:598 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:584
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 18610 tgid 18608 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc4/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2895
 free_large_kmalloc+0x13a/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4820
 device_release+0x99/0x1c0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x22b/0x480 lib/kobject.c:737
 netdev_run_todo+0xd2e/0xea0 net/core/dev.c:11513
 rtnl_unlock net/core/rtnetlink.c:157 [inline]
 rtnl_net_unlock include/linux/rtnetlink.h:135 [inline]
 rtnl_dellink+0x537/0x710 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3563
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7cc/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6946
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x82f/0x9e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
 netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:729
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x505/0x830 net/socket.c:2614
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2668
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2700 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2705 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2703 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x19b/0x260 net/socket.c:2703
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888036bac200: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888036bac280: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff888036bac300: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                                        ^
 ffff888036bac380: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888036bac400: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/10 05:46 net e0d1c55501d3 fdeaa69b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: use-after-free Read in __pnet_find_base_ndev
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.