Re: [syzbot] [net?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in handle_tx (2)

syzbot
2025-11-06T14:50:03Z

Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ser_release

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ser_release+0x39c/0x3b0 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:303
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880355fed98 by task kworker/3:0/34

CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 34 Comm: kworker/3:0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events ser_release
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595
ser_release+0x39c/0x3b0 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:303
process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3263
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3346 [inline]
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x675/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>

Allocated by task 6406:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:400 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:417
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5642 [inline]
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x3a3/0x9c0 mm/slub.c:7100
alloc_netdev_mqs+0xd7/0x1550 net/core/dev.c:11900
ldisc_open+0x155/0x970 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:331
tty_ldisc_open+0x9f/0x120 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:432
tty_set_ldisc+0x32b/0x780 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:563
tiocsetd drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2429 [inline]
tty_ioctl+0xc2d/0x1680 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2728
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 34:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
__kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:587
kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline]
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2539 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6630 [inline]
kfree+0x2b8/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6837
device_release+0xa4/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2565
kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
kobject_put+0x1e7/0x5a0 lib/kobject.c:737
netdev_run_todo+0x7e9/0x1320 net/core/dev.c:11601
ser_release+0x1ca/0x3b0 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:298
process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3263
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3346 [inline]
worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x675/0x7d0 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 ffff8880355fe000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 3480 bytes inside of
freed 4096-byte region [ffff8880355fe000, ffff8880355ff000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x355f8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff88802c472741
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b04c280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 ffff88802c472741
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b04c280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 ffff88802c472741
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0000d57e01 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 6200, tgid 6200 (udevd), ts 91632676821, free_ts 89805144993
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1c0/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x10a3/0x3a30 mm/page_alloc.c:3884
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x25f/0x2470 mm/page_alloc.c:5183
alloc_pages_mpol+0x1fb/0x550 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3055 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3228 [inline]
new_slab+0x24a/0x360 mm/slub.c:3282
___slab_alloc+0xdae/0x1a60 mm/slub.c:4651
__slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x63/0x110 mm/slub.c:4770
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4846 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5268 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5641 [inline]
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x5aa/0x9c0 mm/slub.c:7100
seq_buf_alloc fs/seq_file.c:38 [inline]
seq_read_iter+0x830/0x12d0 fs/seq_file.c:210
proc_reg_read_iter+0x11b/0x310 fs/proc/inode.c:295
new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
vfs_read+0x8bf/0xcf0 fs/read_write.c:572
ksys_read+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:715
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 6346 tgid 6346 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1394 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0x7df/0x1160 mm/page_alloc.c:2906
vfree+0x1fd/0xb50 mm/vmalloc.c:3440
kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:439 [inline]
kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:435 [inline]
kcov_close+0x34/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:535
__fput+0x402/0xb70 fs/file_table.c:468
task_work_run+0x150/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
do_exit+0x86f/0x2bf0 kernel/exit.c:966
do_group_exit+0xd3/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1107
get_signal+0x2671/0x26d0 kernel/signal.c:3034
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x8f/0x7c0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x85/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:40
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x426/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8880355fec80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880355fed00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880355fed80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8880355fee00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880355fee80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Tested on:

commit: dc77806c Merge tag 'rust-fixes-6.18' of git://git.kern..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13702a58580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=f009a9a8d50667
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=827272712bd6d12c79a4
compiler: gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40
patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=15a29084580000