================================================================== BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in atomic_inc_return include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:453 [inline] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in mac802154_header_create+0x144/0x5f0 net/mac802154/iface.c:438 Write of size 4 at addr 000000000000004c by task kworker/1:2/13258 CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 13258 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted 6.16.0-syzkaller-06574-gd9104cec3e8f #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025 Workqueue: mld mld_ifc_work Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x2b0/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] atomic_inc_return include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:453 [inline] mac802154_header_create+0x144/0x5f0 net/mac802154/iface.c:438 dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3412 [inline] neigh_connected_output+0x283/0x460 net/core/neighbour.c:1619 neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:547 [inline] ip6_finish_output2+0x11fe/0x16a0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:141 NF_HOOK+0x9e/0x380 include/linux/netfilter.h:318 mld_sendpack+0x800/0xd80 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1860 mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2159 [inline] mld_ifc_work+0x83e/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2698 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3238 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3321 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3402 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:464 ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245 ==================================================================