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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in qfq_search_class

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/12 17:53
Subsystems: net
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Reported-by: syzbot+07f3f38f723c335f106d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: net/sched: sch_qfq: do not free existing class in qfq_change_class()
Patched on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 4d05h, last: 4d05h
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH net] net/sched: sch_qfq: do not free existing class in qfq_change_class() 4 (4) 2026/01/14 03:40
[syzbot] [net?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in qfq_search_class 0 (1) 2026/01/12 17:53

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in qdisc_class_find include/net/sch_generic.h:658 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in qfq_find_class net/sched/sch_qfq.c:215 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in qfq_search_class+0x16e/0x1a0 net/sched/sch_qfq.c:569
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880651e5300 by task syz.1.1901/12358

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12358 Comm: syz.1.1901 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
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
 qdisc_class_find include/net/sch_generic.h:658 [inline]
 qfq_find_class net/sched/sch_qfq.c:215 [inline]
 qfq_search_class+0x16e/0x1a0 net/sched/sch_qfq.c:569
 __tc_ctl_tclass net/sched/sch_api.c:2237 [inline]
 tc_ctl_tclass+0x789/0x16c0 net/sched/sch_api.c:2309
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c9/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6967
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x158/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x5aa/0x870 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8c8/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa5d/0xc30 net/socket.c:2592
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2646
 __sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x220 net/socket.c:2678
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f60b858f7c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f60b939a038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f60b87e5fa0 RCX: 00007f60b858f7c9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f60b8613f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f60b87e6038 R14: 00007f60b87e5fa0 R15: 00007fff412b17a8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 11350:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 qfq_change_class+0x2ba/0x1da0 net/sched/sch_qfq.c:479
 __tc_ctl_tclass net/sched/sch_api.c:2279 [inline]
 tc_ctl_tclass+0x59d/0x16c0 net/sched/sch_api.c:2309
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c9/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6967
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x158/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x5aa/0x870 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8c8/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa5d/0xc30 net/socket.c:2592
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2646
 __sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x220 net/socket.c:2678
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 12068:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/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:6670 [inline]
 kfree+0x2f8/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:6878
 qfq_change_class+0x1576/0x1da0 net/sched/sch_qfq.c:533
 __tc_ctl_tclass net/sched/sch_api.c:2279 [inline]
 tc_ctl_tclass+0x59d/0x16c0 net/sched/sch_api.c:2309
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c9/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6967
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x158/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x5aa/0x870 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8c8/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa5d/0xc30 net/socket.c:2592
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2646
 __sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x220 net/socket.c:2678
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880651e5300
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
 freed 128-byte region [ffff8880651e5300, ffff8880651e5380)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x651e5
anon flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88801b442a00 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x52820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 9272, tgid 9271 (syz.1.993), ts 100051406974, free_ts 100051372730
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1af/0x220 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xd0b/0x31a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x25f/0x2430 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x1fb/0x550 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3248 [inline]
 new_slab+0x2c3/0x430 mm/slub.c:3302
 ___slab_alloc+0xe18/0x1c90 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x63/0x110 mm/slub.c:4779
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x485/0x800 mm/slub.c:5771
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 __hw_addr_create net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:60 [inline]
 __hw_addr_add_ex+0x3c9/0x7c0 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:118
 __hw_addr_add net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:135 [inline]
 dev_addr_init+0x161/0x250 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:559
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0x363/0x1550 net/core/dev.c:12016
 tun_set_iff drivers/net/tun.c:2778 [inline]
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x193e/0x4880 drivers/net/tun.c:3088
 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/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 9272 tgid 9271 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x7df/0x1170 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 selinux_genfs_get_sid security/selinux/hooks.c:1359 [inline]
 inode_doinit_with_dentry+0xaca/0x12e0 security/selinux/hooks.c:1557
 selinux_d_instantiate+0x26/0x30 security/selinux/hooks.c:6545
 security_d_instantiate+0x142/0x1a0 security/security.c:3601
 d_make_persistent+0x6a/0x190 fs/dcache.c:2790
 __debugfs_create_file+0x26b/0x530 fs/debugfs/inode.c:450
 debugfs_create_file_full+0x41/0x60 fs/debugfs/inode.c:460
 ref_tracker_dir_debugfs+0x19d/0x2f0 lib/ref_tracker.c:441
 ref_tracker_dir_init include/linux/ref_tracker.h:70 [inline]
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0x314/0x1550 net/core/dev.c:12006
 tun_set_iff drivers/net/tun.c:2778 [inline]
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x193e/0x4880 drivers/net/tun.c:3088
 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/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880651e5200: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880651e5280: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8880651e5300: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff8880651e5380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8880651e5400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/12 07:57 upstream 9c7ef209cd0f d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in qfq_search_class
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.