KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in free_netdev

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/08/01 00:25
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+eb3d3403a7a09c76b0d1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d04h, last: 6d04h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
bb64ac3b assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in free_netdev 2026/07/29 01:23 2026/07/29 01:23 2026/07/29 02:05 7be3c40b

			
		
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in free_netdev 19 syz, C error 2 1475d 1507d 2/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2022/06/18 00:20
linux-4.19 KASAN: use-after-free Read in free_netdev 19 syz, C error 142 1293d 2339d 0/1 upstream: reported C repro on 2020/03/07 10:14
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in free_netdev (2) net 19 syz, C done done 1715 1706d 2340d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/08 16:11
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Read in free_netdev 19 syz, C 427 1439d 2340d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/24 02:54
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in free_netdev (3) net 19 syz, C inconclusive 130 1347d 1503d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
upstream general protection fault in free_netdev (2) net 2 1 1867d 1867d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/09/20 23:14

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in free_netdev+0x7d9/0x8c0 net/core/dev.c:12206
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807c02cd48 by task syz.0.3719/21784

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 21784 Comm: syz.0.3719 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 free_netdev+0x7d9/0x8c0 net/core/dev.c:12206
 gphonet_register_netdev drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_phonet.c:729 [inline]
 pn_bind+0x3a7/0x5b0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_phonet.c:511
 usb_add_function+0x219/0x890 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:333
 configfs_composite_bind+0xd83/0x1960 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1802
 gadget_bind_driver+0x28c/0xbf0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1662
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __driver_attach+0x21f/0x5b0 drivers/base/dd.c:1292
 bus_for_each_dev+0x13e/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
 bus_add_driver+0x305/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:763
 driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:174
 usb_gadget_register_driver_owner+0x132/0x210 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1752
 gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0x1b0/0x2e0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:300
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x302/0x4e0 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6ac/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f39ea99de99
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f39eb86e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f39eac26090 RCX: 00007f39ea99de99
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00002000000004c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f39eaa33eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f39eac26128 R14: 00007f39eac26090 R15: 00007ffd7160c058
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 18935:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5334 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x34f/0x970 mm/slub.c:6905
 veth_alloc_queues drivers/net/veth.c:1440 [inline]
 veth_dev_init+0x37c/0x580 drivers/net/veth.c:1463
 register_netdevice+0x685/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11365
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:775 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x48b/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2252
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2259 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2255 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2255
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807c02c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 1096 bytes to the right of
 allocated 2304-byte region [ffff88807c02c000, ffff88807c02c900)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7c028
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888075be6fc1
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe2b500 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 ffff888075be6fc1
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe2b500 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 ffff888075be6fc1
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
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 5628, tgid 5628 (syz-executor), ts 104352423084, free_ts 104350333295
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xf48/0x3530 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x299/0x2dc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3380 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa2/0x640 mm/slub.c:3426
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x376/0x680 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x479/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 snmp6_alloc_dev net/ipv6/addrconf.c:362 [inline]
 ipv6_add_dev+0x670/0x1520 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:413
 addrconf_notify+0x5db/0x1ba0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3685
 notifier_call_chain+0x99/0x3f0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xbe/0x110 net/core/dev.c:2250
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2288 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2302 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x1998/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11484
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
page last free pid 5628 tgid 5628 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x1090 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4584 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4917 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x265/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 ref_tracker_alloc+0x190/0x590 lib/ref_tracker.c:270
 __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4499 [inline]
 netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4528 [inline]
 netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4523 [inline]
 netdev_queue_add_kobject net/core/net-sysfs.c:1973 [inline]
 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x2db/0x6f0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2035
 register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:2098 [inline]
 netdev_register_kobject+0x2b3/0x3d0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2341
 register_netdevice+0x15b6/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11446
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:775 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x48b/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2252

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807c02cc00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807c02cc80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88807c02cd00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                              ^
 ffff88807c02cd80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807c02ce00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in free_netdev+0x82e/0x8c0 net/core/dev.c:12206
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807c02cd50 by task syz.0.3719/21784

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 21784 Comm: syz.0.3719 Tainted: G    B               syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 free_netdev+0x82e/0x8c0 net/core/dev.c:12206
 gphonet_register_netdev drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_phonet.c:729 [inline]
 pn_bind+0x3a7/0x5b0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_phonet.c:511
 usb_add_function+0x219/0x890 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:333
 configfs_composite_bind+0xd83/0x1960 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1802
 gadget_bind_driver+0x28c/0xbf0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1662
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __driver_attach+0x21f/0x5b0 drivers/base/dd.c:1292
 bus_for_each_dev+0x13e/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
 bus_add_driver+0x305/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:763
 driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:174
 usb_gadget_register_driver_owner+0x132/0x210 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1752
 gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0x1b0/0x2e0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:300
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x302/0x4e0 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6ac/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f39ea99de99
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f39eb86e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f39eac26090 RCX: 00007f39ea99de99
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00002000000004c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f39eaa33eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f39eac26128 R14: 00007f39eac26090 R15: 00007ffd7160c058
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 18935:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5334 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x34f/0x970 mm/slub.c:6905
 veth_alloc_queues drivers/net/veth.c:1440 [inline]
 veth_dev_init+0x37c/0x580 drivers/net/veth.c:1463
 register_netdevice+0x685/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11365
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:775 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x48b/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2252
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2259 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2255 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2255
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807c02c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 1104 bytes to the right of
 allocated 2304-byte region [ffff88807c02c000, ffff88807c02c900)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7c028
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888075be6fc1
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe2b500 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 ffff888075be6fc1
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe2b500 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 ffff888075be6fc1
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
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 5628, tgid 5628 (syz-executor), ts 104352423084, free_ts 104350333295
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xf48/0x3530 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x299/0x2dc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3380 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa2/0x640 mm/slub.c:3426
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x376/0x680 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x479/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 snmp6_alloc_dev net/ipv6/addrconf.c:362 [inline]
 ipv6_add_dev+0x670/0x1520 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:413
 addrconf_notify+0x5db/0x1ba0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3685
 notifier_call_chain+0x99/0x3f0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xbe/0x110 net/core/dev.c:2250
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2288 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2302 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x1998/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11484
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
page last free pid 5628 tgid 5628 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x1090 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4584 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4917 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x265/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 ref_tracker_alloc+0x190/0x590 lib/ref_tracker.c:270
 __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4499 [inline]
 netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4528 [inline]
 netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4523 [inline]
 netdev_queue_add_kobject net/core/net-sysfs.c:1973 [inline]
 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x2db/0x6f0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2035
 register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:2098 [inline]
 netdev_register_kobject+0x2b3/0x3d0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2341
 register_netdevice+0x15b6/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11446
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:775 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x48b/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2252

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807c02cc00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807c02cc80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88807c02cd00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                                 ^
 ffff88807c02cd80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807c02ce00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in free_netdev+0x7c2/0x8c0 net/core/dev.c:12208
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807c02cd58 by task syz.0.3719/21784

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 21784 Comm: syz.0.3719 Tainted: G    B               syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 free_netdev+0x7c2/0x8c0 net/core/dev.c:12208
 gphonet_register_netdev drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_phonet.c:729 [inline]
 pn_bind+0x3a7/0x5b0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_phonet.c:511
 usb_add_function+0x219/0x890 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:333
 configfs_composite_bind+0xd83/0x1960 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1802
 gadget_bind_driver+0x28c/0xbf0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1662
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __driver_attach+0x21f/0x5b0 drivers/base/dd.c:1292
 bus_for_each_dev+0x13e/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
 bus_add_driver+0x305/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:763
 driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:174
 usb_gadget_register_driver_owner+0x132/0x210 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1752
 gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0x1b0/0x2e0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:300
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x302/0x4e0 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6ac/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f39ea99de99
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f39eb86e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f39eac26090 RCX: 00007f39ea99de99
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00002000000004c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f39eaa33eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f39eac26128 R14: 00007f39eac26090 R15: 00007ffd7160c058
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 18935:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5334 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x34f/0x970 mm/slub.c:6905
 veth_alloc_queues drivers/net/veth.c:1440 [inline]
 veth_dev_init+0x37c/0x580 drivers/net/veth.c:1463
 register_netdevice+0x685/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11365
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:775 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x48b/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2252
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2259 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2255 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2255
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807c02c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 1112 bytes to the right of
 allocated 2304-byte region [ffff88807c02c000, ffff88807c02c900)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7c028
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888075be6fc1
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe2b500 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 ffff888075be6fc1
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe2b500 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 ffff888075be6fc1
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
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 5628, tgid 5628 (syz-executor), ts 104352423084, free_ts 104350333295
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xf48/0x3530 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x299/0x2dc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3380 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa2/0x640 mm/slub.c:3426
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x376/0x680 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x479/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 snmp6_alloc_dev net/ipv6/addrconf.c:362 [inline]
 ipv6_add_dev+0x670/0x1520 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:413
 addrconf_notify+0x5db/0x1ba0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3685
 notifier_call_chain+0x99/0x3f0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xbe/0x110 net/core/dev.c:2250
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2288 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2302 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x1998/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11484
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
page last free pid 5628 tgid 5628 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x1090 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4584 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4917 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x265/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 ref_tracker_alloc+0x190/0x590 lib/ref_tracker.c:270
 __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4499 [inline]
 netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4528 [inline]
 netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4523 [inline]
 netdev_queue_add_kobject net/core/net-sysfs.c:1973 [inline]
 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x2db/0x6f0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2035
 register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:2098 [inline]
 netdev_register_kobject+0x2b3/0x3d0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2341
 register_netdevice+0x15b6/0x25a0 net/core/dev.c:11446
 veth_newlink+0x316/0xa00 drivers/net/veth.c:1863
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3913 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4044 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4159
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7076
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:775 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:790 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x48b/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2252

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807c02cc00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807c02cc80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88807c02cd00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                                    ^
 ffff88807c02cd80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807c02ce00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 21784 Comm: syz.0.3719 Tainted: G    B               syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
RIP: 0010:__hw_addr_flush+0x70/0x250 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:491
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 d0 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 49 8b 1e 48 89 da 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 a5 01 00 00 49 bc 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b
RSP: 0018:ffffc900040f7830 EFLAGS: 00010256
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc90011a4f000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff898fd92a RDI: ffff88807c02c460
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000006 R09: ffffc90000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 3d3d3d3d3d3d3d3d R12: ffff88807c02c168
R13: ffff88807bcffc00 R14: ffff88807c02c448 R15: 00000000fffffffc
FS:  00007f39eb86e6c0(0000) GS:ffff888123ede000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000559c4d2dc950 CR3: 0000000075962000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 free_netdev+0x25d/0x8c0 net/core/dev.c:12214
 gphonet_register_netdev drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_phonet.c:729 [inline]
 pn_bind+0x3a7/0x5b0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_phonet.c:511
 usb_add_function+0x219/0x890 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:333
 configfs_composite_bind+0xd83/0x1960 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1802
 gadget_bind_driver+0x28c/0xbf0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1662
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __driver_attach+0x21f/0x5b0 drivers/base/dd.c:1292
 bus_for_each_dev+0x13e/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
 bus_add_driver+0x305/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:763
 driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:174
 usb_gadget_register_driver_owner+0x132/0x210 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1752
 gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0x1b0/0x2e0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:300
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x302/0x4e0 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6ac/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f39ea99de99
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 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 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f39eb86e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f39eac26090 RCX: 00007f39ea99de99
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 00002000000004c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f39eaa33eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f39eac26128 R14: 00007f39eac26090 R15: 00007ffd7160c058
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:__hw_addr_flush+0x70/0x250 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:491
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 d0 01 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 49 8b 1e 48 89 da 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 a5 01 00 00 49 bc 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4c 8b
RSP: 0018:ffffc900040f7830 EFLAGS: 00010256
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc90011a4f000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff898fd92a RDI: ffff88807c02c460
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000006 R09: ffffc90000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 3d3d3d3d3d3d3d3d R12: ffff88807c02c168
R13: ffff88807bcffc00 R14: ffff88807c02c448 R15: 00000000fffffffc
FS:  00007f39eb86e6c0(0000) GS:ffff888123ede000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffdf7949ff8 CR3: 0000000075962000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   2:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   4:	00 fc                	add    %bh,%ah
   6:	ff                   	lcall  (bad)
   7:	df 48 c1             	fisttps -0x3f(%rax)
   a:	ea                   	(bad)
   b:	03 80 3c 02 00 0f    	add    0xf00023c(%rax),%eax
  11:	85 d0                	test   %edx,%eax
  13:	01 00                	add    %eax,(%rax)
  15:	00 48 b8             	add    %cl,-0x48(%rax)
  18:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
  1a:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
  1c:	00 fc                	add    %bh,%ah
  1e:	ff                   	lcall  (bad)
  1f:	df 49 8b             	fisttps -0x75(%rcx)
  22:	1e                   	(bad)
  23:	48 89 da             	mov    %rbx,%rdx
  26:	48 c1 ea 03          	shr    $0x3,%rdx
* 2a:	80 3c 02 00          	cmpb   $0x0,(%rdx,%rax,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	0f 85 a5 01 00 00    	jne    0x1d9
  34:	49 bc 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%r12
  3b:	fc ff df
  3e:	4c                   	rex.WR
  3f:	8b                   	.byte 0x8b

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/27 23:56 upstream f5098b6bae76 4cb2b096 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in free_netdev
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.