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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25cmp

Status: closed as invalid on 2026/03/27 01:43
Subsystems: hams
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First crash: 142d, last: 88d
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25cmp (2) hams 19 1 4d04h 3d09h 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/03/31 19:19
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in ax25cmp hams 7 11 1726d 1798d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2021/11/10 00:57
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in ax25cmp (2) hams 7 C 51 1290d 1551d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/11/18 11:50
upstream KMSAN: uninit-value in ax25cmp (3) hams 7 C 505 456d 823d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/14 02:56

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ax25cmp+0x2bc/0x410 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888056463808 by task kworker/u8:11/7511

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7511 Comm: kworker/u8:11 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Workqueue: events_unbound nsim_dev_trap_report_work
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 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
 ax25cmp+0x2bc/0x410 net/ax25/ax25_addr.c:119
 ax25_find_cb+0x130/0x3a0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:236
 ax25_send_frame+0x2f6/0x9f0 net/ax25/ax25_out.c:55
 rose_send_frame+0x111/0x220 net/rose/rose_link.c:106
 rose_transmit_restart_request net/rose/rose_link.c:198 [inline]
 rose_t0timer_expiry+0x143/0x350 net/rose/rose_link.c:83
 call_timer_fn+0x17e/0x5f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1747
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1798 [inline]
 __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2372 [inline]
 __run_timer_base+0x61a/0x860 kernel/time/timer.c:2384
 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2393 [inline]
 run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x180 kernel/time/timer.c:2403
 handle_softirqs+0x286/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x1f0 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:crng_make_state+0x406/0x700 drivers/char/random.c:394
Code: 77 8e e8 ed e5 30 06 e9 56 fe ff ff e8 73 f3 a7 fc e8 ae 51 2e 06 4d 85 f6 74 8c e8 64 f3 a7 fc fb 48 c7 44 24 40 0e 36 e0 45 <48> 8b 44 24 38 4a c7 04 20 00 00 00 00 66 42 c7 44 20 09 00 00 42
RSP: 0018:ffffc9001fedf720 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff8518106c RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff888024c48000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc9001fedf810 R08: ffffffff8f7ce777 R09: 1ffffffff1ef9cee
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1ef9cef R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff8880b8836390 R14: 0000000000000200 R15: ffff8880b88363e0
 _get_random_bytes+0xd5/0x210 drivers/char/random.c:406
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:790 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:820 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x69e/0xb80 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:866
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3263 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3346
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 762:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:400 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:417
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3d5/0x6f0 mm/slub.c:5771
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 rose_add_node+0x23a/0xeb0 net/rose/rose_route.c:85
 rose_rt_ioctl+0xce2/0x1240 net/rose/rose_route.c:748
 rose_ioctl+0x3ce/0x8b0 net/rose/af_rose.c:1381
 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+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 15676:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 __kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:587
 kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline]
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2543 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6638 [inline]
 kfree+0x19a/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6845
 rose_neigh_put include/net/rose.h:166 [inline]
 rose_timer_expiry+0x4cb/0x600 net/rose/rose_timer.c:183
 call_timer_fn+0x17e/0x5f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1747
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1798 [inline]
 __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2372 [inline]
 __run_timer_base+0x61a/0x860 kernel/time/timer.c:2384
 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2393 [inline]
 run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x180 kernel/time/timer.c:2403
 handle_softirqs+0x286/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xca/0x1f0 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888056463800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 freed 512-byte region [ffff888056463800, ffff888056463a00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x56460
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 ffff88801a026c80 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801a026c80 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000002 ffffea0001591801 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5831, tgid 5831 (syz-executor), ts 97858047187, free_ts 27088315827
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2365/0x2440 mm/page_alloc.c:3884
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5183
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3059 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x96/0x350 mm/slub.c:3232
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3286 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xf56/0x1990 mm/slub.c:4655
 __slab_alloc+0x65/0x100 mm/slub.c:4778
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4854 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5276 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5649 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x471/0x7f0 mm/slub.c:5662
 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:3809
 ip6_route_add+0x49/0x1b0 net/ipv6/route.c:3938
 addrconf_add_mroute net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2552 [inline]
 addrconf_add_dev+0x24f/0x340 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2570
 inet6_addr_add+0x1a1/0xc00 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3032
 inet6_rtm_newaddr+0x93d/0xd20 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:5059
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7cf/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6951
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
page last free pid 1 tgid 1 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1394 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc4/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2906
 __free_pages mm/page_alloc.c:5302 [inline]
 free_contig_range+0x1bd/0x4a0 mm/page_alloc.c:7146
 destroy_args+0x69/0x660 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:958
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x39f/0x3b0 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1345
 do_one_initcall+0x236/0x820 init/main.c:1283
 do_initcall_level+0x104/0x190 init/main.c:1345
 do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0 init/main.c:1361
 kernel_init_freeable+0x334/0x4b0 init/main.c:1593
 kernel_init+0x1d/0x1d0 init/main.c:1483
 ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888056463700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888056463780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888056463800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff888056463880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888056463900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	77 8e                	ja     0xffffff90
   2:	e8 ed e5 30 06       	call   0x630e5f4
   7:	e9 56 fe ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffe62
   c:	e8 73 f3 a7 fc       	call   0xfca7f384
  11:	e8 ae 51 2e 06       	call   0x62e51c4
  16:	4d 85 f6             	test   %r14,%r14
  19:	74 8c                	je     0xffffffa7
  1b:	e8 64 f3 a7 fc       	call   0xfca7f384
  20:	fb                   	sti
  21:	48 c7 44 24 40 0e 36 	movq   $0x45e0360e,0x40(%rsp)
  28:	e0 45
* 2a:	48 8b 44 24 38       	mov    0x38(%rsp),%rax <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	4a c7 04 20 00 00 00 	movq   $0x0,(%rax,%r12,1)
  36:	00
  37:	66 42 c7 44 20 09 00 	movw   $0x0,0x9(%rax,%r12,1)
  3e:	00
  3f:	42                   	rex.X

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/13 00:20 upstream 24172e0d7990 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25cmp
2026/01/06 03:19 net d96bfb686742 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25cmp
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.