KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in r1buf_pool_alloc

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/20 00:59
Reported-by: syzbot+0410670c5c0821fc4678@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d20h, last: 1d20h
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in r1buf_pool_alloc origin:lts-only 19 syz, C 5 2d10h 46d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/06 01:35
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in r1buf_pool_alloc 19 1 47d 47d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/05 08:49

Sample crash report:
md: recovery of RAID array md0
md: md0: recovery done.
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in r1buf_pool_alloc+0x8bc/0xc10 drivers/md/raid1.c:184
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802e06f748 by task md0_resync/6284

CPU: 1 PID: 6284 Comm: md0_resync Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 r1buf_pool_alloc+0x8bc/0xc10 drivers/md/raid1.c:184
 mempool_init_node+0x1e9/0x480 mm/mempool.c:227
 mempool_init+0x3a/0x50 mm/mempool.c:256
 init_resync drivers/md/raid1.c:2615 [inline]
 raid1_sync_request+0x29b/0x3060 drivers/md/raid1.c:2665
 md_do_sync+0x3ae9/0x45d0 drivers/md/md.c:9175
 md_thread+0x27b/0x460 drivers/md/md.c:8017
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6244:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 raid1_reshape+0x79f/0x15e0 drivers/md/raid1.c:3276
 chunk_size_store+0x2a5/0x430 drivers/md/md.c:4284
 md_attr_store+0x196/0x380 drivers/md/md.c:5637
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a4/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 6281:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x28/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
 raid1_reshape+0x1133/0x15e0 drivers/md/raid1.c:3319
 chunk_size_store+0x2a5/0x430 drivers/md/md.c:4284
 md_attr_store+0x196/0x380 drivers/md/md.c:5637
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a4/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802e06f740
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-16 of size 16
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 freed 16-byte region [ffff88802e06f740, ffff88802e06f750)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000b81bc0 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88802e06f2c0 pfn:0x2e06f
flags: 0xfff00000000800(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000800 ffff888017c413c0 ffffea0001dfd850 ffff888017c40288
raw: ffff88802e06f2c0 0000000000800066 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 0x112cc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 5775, tgid 5775 (syz-executor), ts 95207851714, free_ts 93160288627
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1582
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1589 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2181/0x22a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3221
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4501
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:237 [inline]
 alloc_slab_page+0x4f/0x180 mm/slub.c:1883
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5c/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x11f/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0xa6/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1014
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:620 [inline]
 kvmalloc_node+0x70/0x180 mm/util.c:617
 xt_jumpstack_alloc net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1377 [inline]
 xt_replace_table+0x185/0x750 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1416
 __do_replace+0x169/0x9b0 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1079
 do_replace net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1156 [inline]
 do_ip6t_set_ctl+0xb41/0xe10 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1641
 nf_setsockopt+0x263/0x280 net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:101
 do_sock_setsockopt+0x175/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2322
 __sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2345 [inline]
 __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2354 [inline]
 __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2351 [inline]
 __x64_sys_setsockopt+0x182/0x200 net/socket.c:2351
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1182 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7d7/0x8f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2366
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2459
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2127 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1cf/0x210 mm/slub.c:2667
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2743
 __slab_free+0x319/0x400 mm/slub.c:3700
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6a/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:770
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1af/0x310 mm/slub.c:3540
 __alloc_skb+0x103/0x2c0 net/core/skbuff.c:643
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1316 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1184 [inline]
 netlink_sendmsg+0x66a/0xbf0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1874
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x4a9/0x6b0 net/socket.c:2201
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2213 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2209 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0xf0 net/socket.c:2209
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802e06f600: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc
 ffff88802e06f680: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc 00 03 fc fc 00 00 fc fc
>ffff88802e06f700: fa fb fc fc 00 00 fc fc fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc
                                              ^
 ffff88802e06f780: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fa fb fc fc
 ffff88802e06f800: fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc fb fb fc fc 00 04 fc fc
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/20 01:10 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in r1buf_pool_alloc
2026/09/20 01:06 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in r1buf_pool_alloc
2026/09/20 00:58 linux-6.6.y 79643295eba1 853b104b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in r1buf_pool_alloc
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.