From: syzbot <syzbot+d417922a3e7935517ef6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
To: kartikey406@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [netfilter?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nft_array_get_cmp
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:24:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <697a2a12.a70a0220.9914.0001.GAE@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260128145406.42379-1-kartikey406@gmail.com>
Hello,
syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nft_array_get_cmp
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nft_set_ext include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:795 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nft_set_ext_key include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:800 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nft_array_get_cmp+0x1f6/0x2a0 net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c:133
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888028356599 by task syz.4.61/6804
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6804 Comm: syz.4.61 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/13/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
nft_set_ext include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:795 [inline]
nft_set_ext_key include/net/netfilter/nf_tables.h:800 [inline]
nft_array_get_cmp+0x1f6/0x2a0 net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c:133
__inline_bsearch include/linux/bsearch.h:15 [inline]
bsearch+0x50/0xc0 lib/bsearch.c:33
nft_rbtree_get+0x16b/0x400 net/netfilter/nft_set_rbtree.c:169
nft_setelem_get net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:6495 [inline]
nft_get_set_elem+0x420/0xaa0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:6543
nf_tables_getsetelem+0x5c3/0x7c0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:6633
nfnetlink_rcv_msg+0x8ae/0x12c0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:290
netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
nfnetlink_rcv+0x2c0/0x27b0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:669
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xa68/0xad0 net/socket.c:2592
___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2646
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2678 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2683 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2681 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2681
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f908c99aeb9
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:00007f908d8ae028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f908cc16090 RCX: 00007f908c99aeb9
RDX: 0000000000008000 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f908ca08c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f908cc16128 R14: 00007f908cc16090 R15: 00007ffcbdac0cb8
</TASK>
Allocated by task 6799:
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:398 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5657 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x40c/0x7e0 mm/slub.c:5669
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
nft_set_elem_init+0xa8/0x7e0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:6813
nft_add_set_elem net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:7549 [inline]
nf_tables_newsetelem+0x22a4/0x4360 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:7719
nfnetlink_rcv_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:526 [inline]
nfnetlink_rcv_skb_batch net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:649 [inline]
nfnetlink_rcv+0x1240/0x27b0 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c:667
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xa68/0xad0 net/socket.c:2592
___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2646
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2678 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2683 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2681 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2681
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Freed by task 6801:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6674 [inline]
kfree+0x1be/0x650 mm/slub.c:6882
nf_tables_set_elem_destroy net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:6932 [inline]
nft_trans_gc_trans_free+0x519/0x6c0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c:10544
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]
rcu_core+0xc9e/0x1750 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857
handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x7c0 kernel/softirq.c:622
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x5f/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888028356580
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-64 of size 64
The buggy address is located 25 bytes inside of
freed 64-byte region [ffff888028356580, ffff8880283565c0)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888028356a80 pfn:0x28356
memcg:ffff88807aeee201
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88813fe2ec80 ffffea00017ab380 dead000000000004
raw: ffff888028356a80 000000008020001f 00000000f5000000 ffff88807aeee201
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 5895, tgid 5895 (syz-executor), ts 83082785285, free_ts 83057629143
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x228/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1884
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1892 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x24dc/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3945
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5240
alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x86/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:3248
new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
___slab_alloc+0xd82/0x1760 mm/slub.c:4656
__slab_alloc+0x65/0x100 mm/slub.c:4779
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x673/0x8d0 mm/slub.c:7140
allocate_hook_entries_size net/netfilter/core.c:58 [inline]
nf_hook_entries_grow+0x288/0x720 net/netfilter/core.c:137
__nf_register_net_hook+0x2c9/0x930 net/netfilter/core.c:432
nf_register_net_hook+0xb2/0x190 net/netfilter/core.c:575
nf_register_net_hooks+0x44/0x1b0 net/netfilter/core.c:591
ip6t_register_table+0x561/0x800 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c:1787
ip6table_filter_table_init+0x75/0xb0 net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6table_filter.c:48
xt_find_table_lock+0x30c/0x3e0 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1260
xt_request_find_table_lock+0x26/0x100 net/netfilter/x_tables.c:1285
page last free pid 23 tgid 23 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xbf8/0xd70 mm/page_alloc.c:2973
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2605 [inline]
rcu_core+0xc9e/0x1750 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2857
handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x7c0 kernel/softirq.c:622
run_ksoftirqd+0x36/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:1063
smpboot_thread_fn+0x541/0xa50 kernel/smpboot.c:160
kthread+0x726/0x8b0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x51b/0xa40 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888028356480: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888028356500: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888028356580: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
ffff888028356600: 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888028356680: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
Tested on:
commit: 239f09e2 selftests: ptp: treat unsupported PHC operati..
git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git main
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=17b4f05a580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=aeae47237b696a30
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d417922a3e7935517ef6
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8
patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=1432ebfa580000
next parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-28 15:24 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20260128145406.42379-1-kartikey406@gmail.com>
2026-01-28 15:24 ` syzbot [this message]
[not found] <20260128131451.38528-1-kartikey406@gmail.com>
2026-01-28 13:49 ` [syzbot] [netfilter?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in nft_array_get_cmp syzbot
2026-01-28 12:08 syzbot
2026-01-28 13:40 ` Florian Westphal
2026-01-28 16:35 ` Florian Westphal
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