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KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/27 17:12
Reported-by: syzbot+ee5c912f8e69215b5297@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 52d, last: 9d15h
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry 19 5 241d 393d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/31 01:02
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry 19 2 35d 134d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/11/07 08:58

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ax25_heartbeat_expiry+0x10c/0x130 net/ax25/ax25_timer.c:125
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88805f756150 by task syz.1.73/4536

CPU: 1 PID: 4536 Comm: syz.1.73 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 ax25_heartbeat_expiry+0x10c/0x130 net/ax25/ax25_timer.c:125
 call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1648
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1699 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x53e/0x800 kernel/time/timer.c:1970
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1983
 handle_softirqs+0x339/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:161 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xbc/0x120 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194
Code: c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 9c 8f 44 24 20 f7 44 24 20 00 02 00 00 41 c6 04 07 f8 75 4b f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> 2f 8a 8c f7 65 8b 05 d0 97 3c 76 85 c0 74 3c 48 c7 04 24 0e 36
RSP: 0018:ffffc900033ef5c0 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: dffffc0000000004 RBX: 0000000000000a06 RCX: 8c84cf7a3273a800
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2780 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc900033ef650 R08: ffffffff901d4177 R09: 1ffffffff203a82e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203a82f R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88807ed50ec0 R15: 1ffff9200067deb8
 spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:419 [inline]
 __wake_up_common_lock kernel/sched/wait.c:140 [inline]
 __wake_up_sync_key+0x128/0x190 kernel/sched/wait.c:205
 __unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x4c0/0xd90 net/unix/af_unix.c:2342
 ____sys_recvmsg+0x2cd/0x5e0 net/socket.c:-1
 ___sys_recvmsg+0x21a/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2706
 do_recvmmsg+0x382/0x850 net/socket.c:2800
 __sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2879 [inline]
 __do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2902 [inline]
 __se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:2895 [inline]
 __x64_sys_recvmmsg+0x195/0x250 net/socket.c:2895
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f93cb0c6799
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:00007f93c92ff028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012b
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f93cb340090 RCX: 00007f93cb0c6799
RDX: 0000000000010106 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f93cb15cc99 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f93cb340128 R14: 00007f93cb340090 R15: 00007ffc8db7daf8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4269:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 ax25_dev_device_up+0x50/0x580 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:55
 ax25_device_event+0x483/0x4f0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:139
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2074 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2088 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x194/0x300 net/core/dev.c:8917
 dev_change_flags+0xe3/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8955
 dev_ifsioc+0x130/0xd50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:324
 dev_ioctl+0x545/0xe30 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:572
 sock_do_ioctl+0x245/0x320 net/socket.c:1161
 sock_ioctl+0x4d2/0x710 net/socket.c:1266
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Freed by task 4513:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 ax25_dev_put include/net/ax25.h:302 [inline]
 ax25_release+0x661/0x870 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1062
 __sock_release net/socket.c:651 [inline]
 sock_close+0xd5/0x240 net/socket.c:1345
 __fput+0x234/0x930 fs/file_table.c:311
 task_work_run+0x125/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 get_signal+0x1222/0x12c0 kernel/signal.c:2672
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xe7/0x12c0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:867
 handle_signal_work kernel/entry/common.c:154 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x9e/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:178
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805f756100
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of
 192-byte region [ffff88805f756100, ffff88805f7561c0)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00017dd580 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88805f756f00 pfn:0x5f756
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 ffffea00007a7488 ffffea00006deb88 ffff888016c41a00
raw: ffff88805f756f00 000000000010000a 00000001ffffffff 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 0x112cc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 4269, ts 60188663499, free_ts 60187999923
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1bbd/0x1ca0 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:570 [inline]
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1782 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xb6/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
 ___slab_alloc+0x80a/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0x200/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:4456
 kmalloc_array_node include/linux/slab.h:700 [inline]
 kcalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:705 [inline]
 memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups+0x81/0x120 mm/memcontrol.c:2839
 memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:313 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0xba/0x380 mm/slab.h:526
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x100/0x290 mm/slub.c:3238
 __d_alloc+0x2a/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1749
 __ns_get_path+0x3b0/0x610 fs/nsfs.c:92
 ns_get_path_cb fs/nsfs.c:118 [inline]
 ns_get_path+0x50/0x90 fs/nsfs.c:144
 proc_ns_get_link+0xf4/0x200 fs/proc/namespaces.c:61
 pick_link+0x6c0/0xdc0 fs/namei.c:-1
 step_into+0xaf9/0xd10 fs/namei.c:1840
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3563 [inline]
 path_openat+0x165e/0x2fa0 fs/namei.c:3747
 do_filp_open+0x1e2/0x410 fs/namei.c:3777
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 mm_free_pgd kernel/fork.c:653 [inline]
 __mmdrop+0xaa/0x3e0 kernel/fork.c:704
 mmdrop include/linux/sched/mm.h:49 [inline]
 finish_task_switch+0x215/0x640 kernel/sched/core.c:4948
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5052 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11f7/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
 schedule_timeout+0xbd/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:2093
 do_wait_for_common+0x2a2/0x450 kernel/sched/completion.c:85
 __wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:106 [inline]
 wait_for_common kernel/sched/completion.c:117 [inline]
 wait_for_completion_killable+0x48/0x70 kernel/sched/completion.c:243
 call_usermodehelper_exec+0x435/0x520 kernel/umh.c:440
 call_modprobe kernel/kmod.c:98 [inline]
 __request_module+0x40b/0x980 kernel/kmod.c:170
 dev_ioctl+0x3c0/0xe30 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:498
 sock_do_ioctl+0x245/0x320 net/socket.c:1161
 sock_ioctl+0x4d2/0x710 net/socket.c:1266
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805f756000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88805f756080: 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88805f756100: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff88805f756180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805f756200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 	movl   $0x0,0x20(%rsp)
   7:	00
   8:	9c                   	pushf
   9:	8f 44 24 20          	pop    0x20(%rsp)
   d:	f7 44 24 20 00 02 00 	testl  $0x200,0x20(%rsp)
  14:	00
  15:	41 c6 04 07 f8       	movb   $0xf8,(%r15,%rax,1)
  1a:	75 4b                	jne    0x67
  1c:	f7 c3 00 02 00 00    	test   $0x200,%ebx
  22:	74 01                	je     0x25
  24:	fb                   	sti
  25:	bf 01 00 00 00       	mov    $0x1,%edi
* 2a:	e8 2f 8a 8c f7       	call   0xf78c8a5e <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	65 8b 05 d0 97 3c 76 	mov    %gs:0x763c97d0(%rip),%eax        # 0x763c9806
  36:	85 c0                	test   %eax,%eax
  38:	74 3c                	je     0x76
  3a:	48                   	rex.W
  3b:	c7                   	.byte 0xc7
  3c:	04 24                	add    $0x24,%al
  3e:	0e                   	(bad)
  3f:	36                   	ss

Crashes (29):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/12 01:02 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/12 01:01 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/12 00:56 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/12 00:53 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/12 00:53 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/12 00:51 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 2d88ab01 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/11 10:52 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/11 10:49 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 86914af9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:31 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:29 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:29 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:28 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:27 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:26 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:25 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:24 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:24 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:21 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:20 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:17 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:15 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:14 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 22:11 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4683d576 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 09:20 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 09:19 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 09:19 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 09:19 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/03/10 09:17 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 6972f302 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
2026/01/27 17:12 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 9a514c2f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_heartbeat_expiry
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.