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

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/23 20:13
Bug presence: origin:downstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+c6132e4e3590ee01d3f4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 929d, last: 389d
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
▶ ▼ Bug presence (3)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2024/01/13 android13-5.15-lts (ToT) ea2937bdd12f C [report] KASAN: use-after-free Read in worker_thread
2024/01/13 lts (merge base) d93fa2c78854 C Didn't crash
2024/01/13 upstream (ToT) 052d534373b7 C Didn't crash
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works (3) 19 2 240d 258d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/02 08:19
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works 19 1 1256d 1256d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/05/21 05:23
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works 19 2 761d 829d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/27 08:05
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works (2) 19 1 399d 399d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/24 09:48
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (7)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/02/23 19:59 13m retest repro android13-5.15-lts OK log
2025/12/15 19:42 15m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/10/06 15:37 38m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/07/28 12:50 7m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/05/16 17:03 23m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2025/03/06 06:29 8m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
2024/12/26 00:32 17m retest repro android13-5.15-lts report log
▶ ▼ Fix bisection attempts (7)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2024/10/15 01:08 0m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts error job log
2024/08/29 04:22 1h40m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/07/02 14:45 1h37m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/05/25 06:40 1h03m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/04/20 12:26 1h49m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/03/21 08:54 53m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log
2024/02/20 04:38 1h46m bisect fix android13-5.15-lts OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x120 lib/list_debug.c:62
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888114eaac70 by task kworker/0:0/21454

CPU: 0 PID: 21454 Comm: kworker/0:0 Tainted: G        W         5.15.185-syzkaller-00178-g5cf73bface18 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Workqueue:  0x0 (events)
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __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
 __list_del_entry_valid+0xa6/0x120 lib/list_debug.c:62
 __list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:132 [inline]
 list_move_tail include/linux/list.h:227 [inline]
 move_linked_works+0x6a/0x230 kernel/workqueue.c:1104
 process_one_work+0x2ed/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2250
 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
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 12975:
 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_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:512 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xda/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:521
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:227 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x13d/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4431
 __kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:484 [inline]
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:639 [inline]
 kvmalloc_node+0x242/0x330 mm/util.c:628
 kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:851 [inline]
 kvzalloc include/linux/mm.h:859 [inline]
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0x8d/0xc90 net/core/dev.c:10900
 alloc_etherdev_mqs+0x34/0x40 net/ethernet/eth.c:383
 usbnet_probe+0x219/0x2860 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1723
 usb_probe_interface+0x5ff/0xae0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x285/0x970 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x198/0x280 drivers/base/dd.c:755
 driver_probe_device+0x54/0x3e0 drivers/base/dd.c:785
 __device_attach_driver+0x2a6/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:907
 bus_for_each_drv+0x175/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
 __device_attach+0x2a2/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:979
 device_initial_probe+0x1a/0x20 drivers/base/dd.c:1028
 bus_probe_device+0xc0/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
 device_add+0xb31/0xed0 drivers/base/core.c:3422
 usb_set_configuration+0x19c2/0x1f10 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2165
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x91/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x148/0x260 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x285/0x970 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x198/0x280 drivers/base/dd.c:755
 driver_probe_device+0x54/0x3e0 drivers/base/dd.c:785
 __device_attach_driver+0x2a6/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:907
 bus_for_each_drv+0x175/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
 __device_attach+0x2a2/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:979
 device_initial_probe+0x1a/0x20 drivers/base/dd.c:1028
 bus_probe_device+0xc0/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
 device_add+0xb31/0xed0 drivers/base/core.c:3422
 usb_new_device+0xd06/0x1620 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2610
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5525 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5665 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5815 [inline]
 hub_event+0x27d8/0x42c0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5897
 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

Freed by task 12975:
 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]
 kfree+0xc4/0x270 mm/slub.c:4583
 kvfree+0x35/0x40 mm/util.c:664
 netdev_freemem+0x3f/0x60 net/core/dev.c:10854
 netdev_release+0x7f/0xb0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1903
 device_release+0x96/0x1c0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:713 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:744 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x18a/0x270 lib/kobject.c:761
 put_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:3530
 free_netdev+0x34b/0x450 net/core/dev.c:11040
 usbnet_disconnect+0x24b/0x3a0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1662
 usb_unbind_interface+0x212/0x8c0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1229 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x4c1/0x760 drivers/base/dd.c:1262
 device_release_driver+0x19/0x20 drivers/base/dd.c:1285
 bus_remove_device+0x2dd/0x340 drivers/base/bus.c:531
 device_del+0x696/0xe90 drivers/base/core.c:3610
 usb_disable_device+0x3a8/0x750 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1414
 usb_disconnect+0x31e/0x850 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2260
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5364 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5665 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5815 [inline]
 hub_event+0x190c/0x42c0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5897
 process_one_work+0x6be/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2325
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2388 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xd7b/0x1200 kernel/workqueue.c:2474
 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]
 usbnet_defer_kevent drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:482 [inline]
 usbnet_link_change+0x176/0x1a0 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:-1
 usbnet_probe+0x1dfd/0x2860 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:1868
 usb_probe_interface+0x5ff/0xae0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x285/0x970 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x198/0x280 drivers/base/dd.c:755
 driver_probe_device+0x54/0x3e0 drivers/base/dd.c:785
 __device_attach_driver+0x2a6/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:907
 bus_for_each_drv+0x175/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
 __device_attach+0x2a2/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:979
 device_initial_probe+0x1a/0x20 drivers/base/dd.c:1028
 bus_probe_device+0xc0/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
 device_add+0xb31/0xed0 drivers/base/core.c:3422
 usb_set_configuration+0x19c2/0x1f10 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2165
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x91/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x148/0x260 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x285/0x970 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x198/0x280 drivers/base/dd.c:755
 driver_probe_device+0x54/0x3e0 drivers/base/dd.c:785
 __device_attach_driver+0x2a6/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:907
 bus_for_each_drv+0x175/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
 __device_attach+0x2a2/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:979
 device_initial_probe+0x1a/0x20 drivers/base/dd.c:1028
 bus_probe_device+0xc0/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
 device_add+0xb31/0xed0 drivers/base/core.c:3422
 usb_new_device+0xd06/0x1620 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2610
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5525 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5665 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5815 [inline]
 hub_event+0x27d8/0x42c0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5897
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888114eaa000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 3184 bytes inside of
 4096-byte region [ffff888114eaa000, ffff888114eab000)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea000453aa00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x114ea8
head:ffffea000453aa00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888100043380
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 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 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 5975, ts 332672947157, free_ts 332662670833
 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:5795
 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]
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x169/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4949
 kmemdup+0x26/0x60 mm/util.c:132
 __devinet_sysctl_register+0xad/0x390 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2593
 devinet_sysctl_register+0x169/0x1e0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2645
 inetdev_init+0x2b9/0x500 net/ipv4/devinet.c:284
 inetdev_event+0x1f8/0x10a0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1545
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x90/0x100 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info net/core/dev.c:2057 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2069 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers+0x111/0x190 net/core/dev.c:2083
 register_netdevice+0x1039/0x13a0 net/core/dev.c:10436
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1472 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1544 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x542/0x550 mm/page_alloc.c:3534
 free_unref_page+0xa2/0x550 mm/page_alloc.c:3616
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:805 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x6c/0x100 mm/page_alloc.c:5871
 __free_slab+0xe8/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:2020
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2035 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2041 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x160/0x190 mm/slub.c:2527
 put_cpu_partial+0xc6/0x120 mm/slub.c:2607
 __slab_free+0x1d4/0x290 mm/slub.c:3390
 do_slab_free mm/slub.c:3509 [inline]
 ___cache_free+0x104/0x120 mm/slub.c:3530
 qlink_free+0x4d/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:157
 qlist_free_all+0x5f/0xb0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14a/0x170 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:443
 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_trace+0xfb/0x270 mm/slub.c:3267
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:616 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:747 [inline]
 kset_create lib/kobject.c:982 [inline]
 kset_create_and_add+0x59/0x2b0 lib/kobject.c:1025
 register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:1759 [inline]
 netdev_register_kobject+0x1a5/0x320 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2018

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888114eaab00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888114eaab80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888114eaac00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                             ^
 ffff888114eaac80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888114eaad00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/06 21:04 android13-5.15-lts 5cf73bface18 4f67c4ae .config console log report info ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works
2024/12/02 08:57 android13-5.15-lts 548ca9fbf844 68914665 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works
2024/11/14 10:27 android13-5.15-lts 3bfe08931bff a8c99394 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works
2024/11/04 06:34 android13-5.15-lts 5e4635681cf1 f00eed24 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works
2024/09/07 17:14 android13-5.15-lts 53be7c8abe11 9750182a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works
2024/07/20 12:10 android13-5.15-lts db06c48ab67e b88348e9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works
2024/01/13 21:07 android13-5.15-lts ea2937bdd12f 551587c1 .config console log report syz C ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in move_linked_works
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.