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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rt6_nlmsg_size

Status: closed as invalid on 2026/02/18 04:33
Subsystems: net
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First crash: 64d, last: 64d

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt6_nlmsg_size+0x8c/0x480 net/ipv6/route.c:5688
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888079d544c0 by task syz.7.6811/572

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 572 Comm: syz.7.6811 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 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
 rt6_nlmsg_size+0x8c/0x480 net/ipv6/route.c:5688
 inet6_rt_notify+0x156/0x470 net/ipv6/route.c:6354
 ip6_route_mpath_notify+0x113/0x270 net/ipv6/route.c:5367
 ip6_route_multipath_add net/ipv6/route.c:5547 [inline]
 inet6_rtm_newroute+0x13e6/0x18c0 net/ipv6/route.c:5658
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7cf/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x82f/0x9e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:742
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x505/0x820 net/socket.c:2592
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2646
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2678 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2683 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2681 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x19b/0x260 net/socket.c:2681
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f8e7ef8f749
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:00007f8e7fe2f038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8e7f1e5fa0 RCX: 00007f8e7ef8f749
RDX: 0000000000040000 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f8e7f013f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8e7f1e6038 R14: 00007f8e7f1e5fa0 R15: 00007f8e7f30fa28
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 573:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5657 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x41d/0x800 mm/slub.c:5669
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 fib6_info_alloc+0x30/0xf0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:155
 ip6_route_info_create+0x142/0x860 net/ipv6/route.c:3820
 ip6_route_add+0x49/0x1b0 net/ipv6/route.c:3949
 ipv6_route_ioctl+0x35c/0x480 net/ipv6/route.c:4582
 inet6_ioctl+0x219/0x280 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:577
 sock_do_ioctl+0xdc/0x300 net/socket.c:1254
 sock_ioctl+0x576/0x790 net/socket.c:1375
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 577:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c0/0x660 mm/slub.c:6878
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]
 rcu_core+0xc8e/0x1720 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857
 handle_softirqs+0x22b/0x7c0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x60/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3119 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xee/0x890 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3239
 call_rcu_hurry include/linux/rcupdate.h:115 [inline]
 fib6_info_release include/net/ip6_fib.h:344 [inline]
 fib6_add+0xcc8/0x18a0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:1539
 __ip6_ins_rt net/ipv6/route.c:1351 [inline]
 ip6_route_multipath_add net/ipv6/route.c:5492 [inline]
 inet6_rtm_newroute+0xaa8/0x18c0 net/ipv6/route.c:5658
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7cf/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x82f/0x9e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:742
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x52d/0x820 net/socket.c:2592
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2646
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x227/0x430 net/socket.c:2735
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2762 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2759 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xc0 net/socket.c:2759
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888079d54400
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 192 bytes inside of
 freed 512-byte region [ffff888079d54400, ffff888079d54600)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x79d54
head: order:2 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
anon flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813ffa6c80 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813ffa6c80 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000002 ffffea0001e75501 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000004
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 12, tgid 12 (kworker/u8:0), ts 231006775383, free_ts 230903340048
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24e0/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xe53/0x1820 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc+0x65/0x100 mm/slub.c:4779
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x47d/0x800 mm/slub.c:5669
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 fib6_info_alloc+0x30/0xf0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:155
 ip6_route_info_create+0x142/0x860 net/ipv6/route.c:3820
 ip6_route_add+0x49/0x1b0 net/ipv6/route.c:3949
 addrconf_prefix_route net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2488 [inline]
 addrconf_add_linklocal+0x45f/0x6c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3313
 addrconf_addr_gen+0x490/0x580 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3442
 addrconf_init_auto_addrs+0x5c2/0xa00 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
 addrconf_notify+0xb1e/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3740
 notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85
page last free pid 7112 tgid 7112 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc8/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 __slab_free+0x2ce/0x320 mm/slub.c:6004
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x3cf/0x800 mm/slub.c:5669
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode2 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:45 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode+0x28b/0x550 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:80
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x58d/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:283
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_number_perm+0x1e8/0x5a0 security/tomoyo/file.c:723
 security_file_ioctl+0xcb/0x2d0 security/security.c:2435
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:591 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x47/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888079d54380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888079d54400: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888079d54480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                           ^
 ffff888079d54500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888079d54580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/01 22:43 upstream b69053dd3ffb d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rt6_nlmsg_size
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.