KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/07/25 07:40
Reported-by: syzbot+7b029317e67481fc436b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 197d, last: 110d
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev 19 10 351d 564d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/10 12:19

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ax25_addr_ax25dev+0x55/0x160 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:38
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888074c9a308 by task syz.7.3186/15976

CPU: 1 PID: 15976 Comm: syz.7.3186 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 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_addr_ax25dev+0x55/0x160 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:38
 ax25_bind+0x4ea/0xb60 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1134
 __sys_bind+0x2e9/0x3e0 net/socket.c:1729
 __do_sys_bind net/socket.c:1740 [inline]
 __se_sys_bind net/socket.c:1738 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bind+0x76/0x80 net/socket.c:1738
 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: 0033:0x7ff735533dd9
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:00007ff73374b028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000031
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff7357ad180 RCX: 00007ff735533dd9
RDX: 0000000000000048 RSI: 0000200000000280 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 00007ff7355c9d69 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff7357ad218 R14: 00007ff7357ad180 R15: 00007ffc60e52b88
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4308:
 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 15972:
 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
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:33 [inline]
 do_exit+0x626/0x20c0 kernel/exit.c:883
 do_group_exit+0x12e/0x300 kernel/exit.c:997
 get_signal+0x6ca/0x12c0 kernel/signal.c:2900
 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 ffff888074c9a300
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 192-byte region [ffff888074c9a300, ffff888074c9a3c0)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001d32680 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x74c9a
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 ffffea00008a1380 0000000600000003 ffff888016c41a00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 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 0x112a20(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 3093, ts 72984013801, free_ts 72853835105
 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_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 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]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x1cd/0x330 mm/slub.c:4408
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:612 [inline]
 batadv_tvlv_realloc_packet_buff net/batman-adv/tvlv.c:283 [inline]
 batadv_tvlv_container_ogm_append+0x14d/0x490 net/batman-adv/tvlv.c:324
 batadv_iv_ogm_schedule_buff net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:815 [inline]
 batadv_iv_ogm_schedule+0x296/0xec0 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:871
 batadv_iv_send_outstanding_bat_ogm_packet+0x72f/0x840 net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c:1715
 process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa6/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
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_list+0x119/0x820 mm/page_alloc.c:3433
 release_pages+0x186c/0x1be0 mm/swap.c:963
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:50 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:241 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:248 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x1b4/0x370 mm/mmu_gather.c:371
 exit_mmap+0x3d0/0x640 mm/mmap.c:3218
 __mmput+0x115/0x3b0 kernel/fork.c:1127
 exit_mm+0x588/0x6e0 kernel/exit.c:550
 do_exit+0x5a9/0x20c0 kernel/exit.c:870
 do_group_exit+0x12e/0x300 kernel/exit.c:997
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1008 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1006 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3b/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1006
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888074c9a200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff888074c9a280: 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888074c9a300: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff888074c9a380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888074c9a400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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Crashes (15):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/30 19:39 linux-5.15.y ef251c45f1cd a7464baf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/04/30 18:37 linux-5.15.y ef251c45f1cd a7464baf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/04/17 19:22 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 24ecfc1e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/04/17 05:01 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b de0a551d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/04/17 04:27 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b de0a551d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/04/17 03:38 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b de0a551d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/04/17 03:37 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b de0a551d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/04/16 19:35 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4743f87d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/04/08 09:14 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 2c961e87 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/03/24 22:42 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 74e70d19 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/03/19 04:10 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 0199f9a1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
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_addr_ax25dev
2026/03/12 00:50 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_addr_ax25dev
2026/02/07 09:50 linux-5.15.y 7b232985052f f20fc9f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
2026/02/03 04:06 linux-5.15.y 9eec9a14ee10 d78927dd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.