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KASAN: use-after-free Read in tw_timer_handler

Status: premoderation: reported on 2025/06/08 18:56
Reported-by: syzbot+f18407cbc99510114ea4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d07h, last: 6d07h
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tw_timer_handler 4 1d21h 4d02h 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2025/06/10 23:40
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tw_timer_handler 4 1979d 2084d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/05/12 09:52

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tw_timer_handler+0x8f/0xf0 include/net/net_namespace.h:-1
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888122ea0198 by task syz.8.1451/5435

CPU: 0 PID: 5435 Comm: syz.8.1451 Tainted: G        W         5.15.185-syzkaller-00339-ge678c93d43cc #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xee/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:427 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xf1/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:444
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:309
 tw_timer_handler+0x8f/0xf0 include/net/net_namespace.h:-1
 call_timer_fn+0x38/0x290 kernel/time/timer.c:1457
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1502 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x639/0x9a0 kernel/time/timer.c:1773
 run_timer_softirq+0x6a/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1786
 handle_softirqs+0x250/0x560 kernel/softirq.c:583
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:621 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:443 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x52/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:670
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x10 kernel/softirq.c:682
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa9/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:169 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x49/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:202
Code: 12 48 89 fb 48 c7 c7 b8 39 6d 86 e8 a1 73 01 fd 48 89 df 48 83 3d ee 94 c7 01 00 74 27 e8 c3 76 a9 fc 66 90 fb bf 01 00 00 00 <e8> c2 5e a1 fc 65 8b 05 a3 c8 5c 7b 85 c0 74 03 5b 5d c3 e8 c3 d1
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001dc73e8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffea0004acc740 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: ffffc900021da000 RSI: ffffffff854b0180 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: ffffc90001dc73f0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: fffff940009598e9
R10: fffff940009598e9 R11: 1ffffd40009598e8 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffffc90001dc7480 R14: 0000000000000cc0 R15: 0000000000000001
 spin_unlock_irq include/linux/spinlock.h:413 [inline]
 shmem_add_to_page_cache+0x9fc/0xc30 mm/shmem.c:757
 shmem_getpage_gfp+0x1164/0x2310 mm/shmem.c:1946
 shmem_fault+0x19d/0x510 mm/shmem.c:2124
 __do_fault+0x264/0x2f0 mm/memory.c:4191
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:4555 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:4696 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault+0x1a57/0x2680 mm/memory.c:4910
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:-1 [inline]
 do_handle_mm_fault+0x1a6d/0x1d50 mm/memory.c:5332
 handle_mm_fault include/linux/mm.h:1836 [inline]
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:976 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x7ee/0x10a0 mm/gup.c:1197
 populate_vma_page_range mm/gup.c:1529 [inline]
 __mm_populate+0x319/0x460 mm/gup.c:1638
 mm_populate include/linux/mm.h:2693 [inline]
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x247/0x410 mm/util.c:560
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xf6/0x1d0 mm/mmap.c:1635
 __do_sys_mmap arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c:93 [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
 x64_sys_call+0x83/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:10
 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: 0033:0x7fd739c50929
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:00007fd7382b9038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd739e77fa0 RCX: 00007fd739c50929
RDX: b635773f06ebbeee RSI: 0000000000b36000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007fd739cd2b39 R08: ffffffffffffffff R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008031 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007fd739e77fa0 R15: 00007fff0fa58348
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4811:
 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:433 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0xbd/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:466
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:217 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4f/0x2b0 mm/slab.h:550
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3250 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0xf7/0x260 mm/slub.c:3255
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:737 [inline]
 net_alloc net/core/net_namespace.c:408 [inline]
 copy_net_ns+0x145/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:463
 create_new_namespaces+0x3a2/0x660 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x120/0x170 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
 ksys_unshare+0x4ac/0x7b0 kernel/fork.c:3242
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3316 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3314 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3314
 x64_sys_call+0x442/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:273
 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 8:
 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:365
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:373
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:193 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1723 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc2/0x190 mm/slub.c:1749
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3521 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x100/0x320 mm/slub.c:3539
 net_free net/core/net_namespace.c:437 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0xa2d/0xad0 net/core/net_namespace.c:620
 process_one_work+0x6be/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2325
 worker_thread+0xa59/0x1200 kernel/workqueue.c:2472
 kthread+0x411/0x500 kernel/kthread.c:337
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

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
 insert_work+0x51/0x310 kernel/workqueue.c:1373
 __queue_work+0x8e5/0xc60 kernel/workqueue.c:1539
 queue_work_on+0xd2/0x140 kernel/workqueue.c:1566
 queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:510 [inline]
 schedule_work include/linux/workqueue.h:571 [inline]
 xfrm_hash_grow_check+0xd7/0x140 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:1024
 xfrm_state_find+0x26a0/0x2a70 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:1184
 xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2396 [inline]
 xfrm_tmpl_resolve net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2441 [inline]
 xfrm_resolve_and_create_bundle+0x626/0x28d0 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2734
 xfrm_lookup_with_ifid+0xa3e/0x2120 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3068
 xfrm_lookup net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3197 [inline]
 xfrm_lookup_route+0x3c/0x170 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3208
 ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x9b/0xc0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1238
 rawv6_sendmsg+0xc07/0x16d0 net/ipv6/raw.c:933
 inet_sendmsg+0xa5/0xc0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:830
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5a2/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2436
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x1f0/0x260 net/socket.c:2490
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x278/0x480 net/socket.c:2576
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2605 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2602 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2602
 x64_sys_call+0x6c6/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308
 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

Second to 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
 insert_work+0x51/0x310 kernel/workqueue.c:1373
 __queue_work+0x8e5/0xc60 kernel/workqueue.c:1539
 queue_work_on+0xd2/0x140 kernel/workqueue.c:1566
 queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:510 [inline]
 schedule_work include/linux/workqueue.h:571 [inline]
 xfrm_hash_grow_check+0xd7/0x140 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:1024
 xfrm_state_find+0x26a0/0x2a70 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:1184
 xfrm_tmpl_resolve_one net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2396 [inline]
 xfrm_tmpl_resolve net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2441 [inline]
 xfrm_resolve_and_create_bundle+0x626/0x28d0 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2734
 xfrm_lookup_with_ifid+0xa3e/0x2120 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3068
 xfrm_lookup net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3197 [inline]
 xfrm_lookup_route+0x3c/0x170 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:3208
 ip6_dst_lookup_flow+0x9b/0xc0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1238
 rawv6_sendmsg+0xc07/0x16d0 net/ipv6/raw.c:933
 inet_sendmsg+0xa5/0xc0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:830
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5a2/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2436
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x1f0/0x260 net/socket.c:2490
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x278/0x480 net/socket.c:2576
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2605 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2602 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2602
 x64_sys_call+0x6c6/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888122ea0000
 which belongs to the cache net_namespace of size 3968
The buggy address is located 408 bytes inside of
 3968-byte region [ffff888122ea0000, ffff888122ea0f80)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00048ba800 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888122ea2000 pfn:0x122ea0
head:ffffea00048ba800 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ffff8881001c5200
raw: ffff888122ea2000 0000000080080004 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
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 281, ts 27522990014, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x192/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2605
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2611
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2cc5/0x2d50 mm/page_alloc.c:4485
 __alloc_pages+0x18f/0x440 mm/page_alloc.c:5789
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1932 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa1/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:1995
 ___slab_alloc+0x381/0x810 mm/slub.c:3028
 __slab_alloc+0x49/0x90 mm/slub.c:3115
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3206 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3250 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x138/0x260 mm/slub.c:3255
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:737 [inline]
 net_alloc net/core/net_namespace.c:408 [inline]
 copy_net_ns+0x145/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:463
 create_new_namespaces+0x3a2/0x660 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x120/0x170 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
 ksys_unshare+0x4ac/0x7b0 kernel/fork.c:3242
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3316 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3314 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3314
 x64_sys_call+0x442/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:273
 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
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888122ea0080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888122ea0100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888122ea0180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff888122ea0200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888122ea0280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	12 48 89             	adc    -0x77(%rax),%cl
   3:	fb                   	sti
   4:	48 c7 c7 b8 39 6d 86 	mov    $0xffffffff866d39b8,%rdi
   b:	e8 a1 73 01 fd       	call   0xfd0173b1
  10:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  13:	48 83 3d ee 94 c7 01 	cmpq   $0x0,0x1c794ee(%rip)        # 0x1c79509
  1a:	00
  1b:	74 27                	je     0x44
  1d:	e8 c3 76 a9 fc       	call   0xfca976e5
  22:	66 90                	xchg   %ax,%ax
  24:	fb                   	sti
  25:	bf 01 00 00 00       	mov    $0x1,%edi
* 2a:	e8 c2 5e a1 fc       	call   0xfca15ef1 <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	65 8b 05 a3 c8 5c 7b 	mov    %gs:0x7b5cc8a3(%rip),%eax        # 0x7b5cc8d9
  36:	85 c0                	test   %eax,%eax
  38:	74 03                	je     0x3d
  3a:	5b                   	pop    %rbx
  3b:	5d                   	pop    %rbp
  3c:	c3                   	ret
  3d:	e8                   	.byte 0xe8
  3e:	c3                   	ret
  3f:	d1                   	.byte 0xd1

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/06/08 18:56 android13-5.15-lts e678c93d43cc 4826c28e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tw_timer_handler
2025/06/08 18:55 android13-5.15-lts e678c93d43cc 4826c28e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tw_timer_handler
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.