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Subject: [syzbot] [mm?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in madvise_walk_vmas
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:07:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69cb8ed0.050a0220.183828.0027.GAE@google.com> (raw)

Hello,

syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit:    e77a5a5cfe43 Add linux-next specific files for 20260326
git tree:       linux-next
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13640f52580000
kernel config:  https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=51ca7cbda5f81780
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=001b9efd14d3e8fac896
compiler:       Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8

Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.

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==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in madvise_walk_vmas+0x661/0xae0 mm/madvise.c:1726
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88803322aa08 by task syz.0.3603/14995

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 14995 Comm: syz.0.3603 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 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
 madvise_walk_vmas+0x661/0xae0 mm/madvise.c:1726
 madvise_do_behavior+0x386/0x540 mm/madvise.c:1929
 do_madvise+0x1fa/0x2e0 mm/madvise.c:2022
 __do_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:2031 [inline]
 __se_sys_madvise mm/madvise.c:2029 [inline]
 __x64_sys_madvise+0xa6/0xc0 mm/madvise.c:2029
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f6f8599c799
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:00007f6f8681a028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000001c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6f85c16090 RCX: 00007f6f8599c799
RDX: 0000000000000019 RSI: 0000000008000000 RDI: 0000200000000000
RBP: 00007f6f85a32c99 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6f85c16128 R14: 00007f6f85c16090 R15: 00007ffd2a0e3548
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5846:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4569 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4898 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2bc/0x650 mm/slub.c:4905
 vm_area_dup+0x2b/0x680 mm/vma_init.c:123
 dup_mmap+0x8b1/0x1d90 mm/mmap.c:1786
 dup_mm kernel/fork.c:1533 [inline]
 copy_mm+0x13b/0x4a0 kernel/fork.c:1585
 copy_process+0x1efd/0x4430 kernel/fork.c:2260
 kernel_clone+0x26d/0x8e0 kernel/fork.c:2709
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2850 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2834 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x1b6/0x230 kernel/fork.c:2834
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 15002:
 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:2689 [inline]
 slab_free_after_rcu_debug+0x12a/0x220 mm/slub.c:6304
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x7cd/0x1070 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1713 [inline]
 packet_do_bind+0x33/0xe10 net/packet/af_packet.c:3198
 __sys_bind_socket net/socket.c:1932 [inline]
 __sys_bind+0x2e3/0x410 net/socket.c:1963
 __do_sys_bind net/socket.c:1968 [inline]
 __se_sys_bind net/socket.c:1966 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bind+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1966
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2650 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6242 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x44f/0x650 mm/slub.c:6369
 remove_vma mm/vma.c:473 [inline]
 vms_complete_munmap_vmas+0x929/0xc60 mm/vma.c:1361
 do_vmi_align_munmap+0x3b7/0x4b0 mm/vma.c:1604
 do_vmi_munmap+0x252/0x2d0 mm/vma.c:1652
 do_munmap+0xf9/0x170 mm/mmap.c:1067
 mremap_to+0x353/0x880 mm/mremap.c:1448
 do_mremap mm/mremap.c:1999 [inline]
 __do_sys_mremap mm/mremap.c:2055 [inline]
 __se_sys_mremap+0xe6d/0x11d0 mm/mremap.c:2023
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88803322aa00
 which belongs to the cache vm_area_struct of size 256
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 freed 256-byte region [ffff88803322aa00, ffff88803322ab00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88803322adc0 pfn:0x3322a
memcg:ffff88803322af01
flags: 0xfff00000000200(workingset|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000200 ffff88801c294b40 ffffea0001163f90 ffffea0001dba810
raw: ffff88803322adc0 00000008000c000b 00000000f5000000 ffff88803322af01
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 11045, tgid 11045 (syz.0.2085), ts 233915893282, free_ts 233883108694
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24ba/0x2540 mm/page_alloc.c:3938
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x233/0x3d0 mm/page_alloc.c:5218
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x339/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7247
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x321/0x720 mm/slub.c:4651
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4749 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4883 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x37d/0x650 mm/slub.c:4905
 vm_area_dup+0x2b/0x680 mm/vma_init.c:123
 __split_vma+0x1dc/0xa40 mm/vma.c:516
 split_vma mm/vma.c:599 [inline]
 vma_modify+0x88a/0x1e10 mm/vma.c:1691
 vma_modify_flags+0x24b/0x330 mm/vma.c:1719
 mprotect_fixup+0x62a/0xb60 mm/mprotect.c:759
 do_mprotect_pkey+0x8d5/0xd20 mm/mprotect.c:937
 __do_sys_mprotect mm/mprotect.c:958 [inline]
 __se_sys_mprotect mm/mprotect.c:955 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mprotect+0x80/0x90 mm/mprotect.c:955
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
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:1394 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc7/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2935
 __tlb_remove_table_free mm/mmu_gather.c:228 [inline]
 tlb_remove_table_rcu+0x85/0x100 mm/mmu_gather.c:291
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x7cd/0x1070 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 run_ksoftirqd+0x36/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:1076
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x541/0xa50 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x388/0x470 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88803322a900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88803322a980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88803322aa00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88803322aa80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803322ab00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================


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             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-31  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-31  9:07 syzbot [this message]
2026-03-31 10:52 ` [syzbot] [mm?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in madvise_walk_vmas Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-31 11:43 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-31 11:54   ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)

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