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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tasklet_action_common+0x103/0x490 kernel/softirq.c:954
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807a518158 by task kworker/1:8/11215
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 11215 Comm: kworker/1:8 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
tasklet_action_common+0x103/0x490 kernel/softirq.c:954
handle_softirqs+0x226/0x860 kernel/softirq.c:645
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:519 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0xcb/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:758
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:775
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x2e1/0x3c0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5968
Code: 5a f2 11 00 00 00 00 eb b5 e8 1b 6b 43 0a f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 b9 65 48 8b 05 b3 15 f2 11 48 3b 44 24 28 75 48 fb 48 83 c4 30 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 90 6f 46 0a cc 48 8d 3d 68 27 da
RSP: 0018:ffffc900001074e8 EFLAGS: 00000286
RAX: 6ecf5d5fb5978700 RBX: 0000000000000206 RCX: 0000000000000046
RDX: ffffc90000107601 RSI: ffffffff8e69f504 RDI: ffffffff8c6dad80
RBP: ffff88802f0b69c0 R08: ffffc90000107e70 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90000107618 R11: fffff52000020ec5 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000002 R14: ffffffff8ed5c8a0 R15: ffff88802f0b5dc0
rcu_lock_release include/linux/rcupdate.h:319 [inline]
rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:880 [inline]
class_rcu_destructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1216 [inline]
unwind_next_frame+0x1baa/0x2550 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:709
arch_stack_walk+0x11b/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
stack_trace_save+0xa9/0x100 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
save_stack+0x122/0x230 mm/page_owner.c:183
__reset_page_owner+0x71/0x1f0 mm/page_owner.c:338
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
free_pages_prepare+0x9eb/0xaf0 mm/page_alloc.c:1463
__free_contig_range_common+0x174/0x340 mm/page_alloc.c:7072
__free_contig_range mm/page_alloc.c:7117 [inline]
free_pages_bulk+0x48/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:5322
vm_area_free_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3461 [inline]
vfree+0x231/0x490 mm/vmalloc.c:3510
__free_fw_priv drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:219 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
free_fw_priv+0x34b/0x500 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:229
firmware_free_data drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:604 [inline]
release_firmware+0x72/0xb0 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1126
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x2a5/0x4b0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1276
request_firmware_work_func+0xf7/0x2d0 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1164
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
Allocated by task 11215:
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:409 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:426
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x321/0x600 mm/slub.c:5563
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
ath9k_init_wmi+0x4f/0x2b0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c:95
ath9k_htc_probe_device+0x1e5/0x2370 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:956
ath9k_htc_hw_init+0x32/0x70 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:532
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x214/0x4b0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1255
request_firmware_work_func+0xf7/0x2d0 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1164
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
Freed by task 11215:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:264 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:296
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6508 [inline]
kfree+0x1c5/0x650 mm/slub.c:6801
ath9k_htc_probe_device+0x11a9/0x2370 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:978
ath9k_htc_hw_init+0x32/0x70 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:532
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x214/0x4b0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1255
request_firmware_work_func+0xf7/0x2d0 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1164
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807a518000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 344 bytes inside of
freed 2048-byte region [ffff88807a518000, ffff88807a518800)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7a518
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b042000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b042000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 13301, tgid 13300 (syz.0.1884), ts 576776786898
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x2209/0x2280 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x217/0x5a0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
refill_objects+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7417
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2c8/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x47b/0x720 mm/slub.c:5439
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse+0xd0/0x2f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:936
genl_start+0x180/0x6d0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:979
__netlink_dump_start+0x442/0x7b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2456
genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0x213/0x310 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1075
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1191 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x5e1/0x7a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209
netlink_rcv_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2575
genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1218
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x7bd/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1364
netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1919
page last free pid 13302 tgid 13302 ts 576164682839 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xc93/0xd90 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
__slab_free+0x274/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:5823
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:361
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2b9/0x600 mm/slub.c:5010
ptlock_alloc+0x20/0x70 mm/memory.c:7721
ptlock_init include/linux/mm.h:3884 [inline]
pagetable_pte_ctor include/linux/mm.h:3933 [inline]
__pte_alloc_one_noprof include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h:79 [inline]
pte_alloc_one+0x7a/0x370 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:18
__pte_alloc+0x25/0x1a0 mm/memory.c:453
do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:5444 [inline]
do_pte_missing+0x2db7/0x34b0 mm/memory.c:4698
handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6558 [inline]
__handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:6707 [inline]
handle_mm_fault+0x1a53/0x3750 mm/memory.c:6876
do_user_addr_fault+0xa4f/0x1340 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1343
handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1483 [inline]
exc_page_fault+0x6a/0xc0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1536
asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:595
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88807a518000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88807a518080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807a518100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88807a518180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88807a518200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Code disassembly (best guess):
0: 5a pop %rdx
1: f2 11 00 repnz adc %eax,(%rax)
4: 00 00 add %al,(%rax)
6: 00 eb add %ch,%bl
8: b5 e8 mov $0xe8,%ch
a: 1b 6b 43 sbb 0x43(%rbx),%ebp
d: 0a f7 or %bh,%dh
f: c3 ret
10: 00 02 add %al,(%rdx)
12: 00 00 add %al,(%rax)
14: 74 b9 je 0xffffffcf
16: 65 48 8b 05 b3 15 f2 mov %gs:0x11f215b3(%rip),%rax # 0x11f215d1
1d: 11
1e: 48 3b 44 24 28 cmp 0x28(%rsp),%rax
23: 75 48 jne 0x6d
25: fb sti
26: 48 83 c4 30 add $0x30,%rsp
* 2a: 5b pop %rbx <-- trapping instruction
2b: 41 5c pop %r12
2d: 41 5d pop %r13
2f: 41 5e pop %r14
31: 41 5f pop %r15
33: 5d pop %rbp
34: e9 90 6f 46 0a jmp 0xa466fc9
39: cc int3
3a: 48 rex.W
3b: 8d .byte 0x8d
3c: 3d .byte 0x3d
3d: 68 .byte 0x68
3e: 27 (bad)
3f: da .byte 0xda