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KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/06/22 14:15
Reported-by: syzbot+438348e4a448fbeb15a3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 2d20h, last: 10h51m
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue 22 C 52 1d01h 10d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/14 23:49
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue 22 C 14 6h12m 2d12h 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/22 22:11
upstream general protection fault in rcu_segcblist_enqueue kvm-x86 2 C done done 368 1752d 1816d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/08 16:11

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rcu_segcblist_enqueue+0x62/0xb0 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c:347
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888117df9190 by task syz.6.898/3454

CPU: 1 PID: 3454 Comm: syz.6.898 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:427 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x10f/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:444
 __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x17/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:314
 rcu_segcblist_enqueue+0x62/0xb0 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c:347
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3030 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x549/0xf60 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3129
 pppol2tp_release+0x1e3/0x2b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:447
 __sock_release net/socket.c:649 [inline]
 sock_close+0xb8/0x200 net/socket.c:1335
 __fput+0x22b/0x900 fs/file_table.c:311
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:339
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xd0/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x87/0xd0 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f73918bce59
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:00007ffd0a727418 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffd0a727500 RCX: 00007f73918bce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000034458 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b2fe20000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd0a727540
R13: 00007f7391b35fac R14: 000000000003452f R15: 00007f7391b35fa0
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 3455:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:433 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:512 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x100 mm/kasan/common.c:521
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:227 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x13d/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4436
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:624 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:750 [inline]
 l2tp_session_create+0x39/0xb60 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1616
 pppol2tp_connect+0xbf5/0x1640 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:772
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1922 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3cb/0x450 net/socket.c:1939
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1949 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1946 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1946
 x64_sys_call+0x7c/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:43
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Freed by task 8:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4a/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x23/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x125/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:365
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:373
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:193 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1728 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc2/0x190 mm/slub.c:1754
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3526 [inline]
 kfree+0xc4/0x270 mm/slub.c:4588
 l2tp_session_free net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:168 [inline]
 l2tp_session_put+0xaf/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:193
 l2tp_session_delete+0x3a9/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1589
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1235 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x180/0x3d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1273
 process_one_work+0x6c8/0xbb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2328
 worker_thread+0xaa0/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:2475
 kthread+0x3f5/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:337
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xd2/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc+0xb/0x10 mm/kasan/generic.c:358
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3011 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x10b/0xf60 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3129
 pppol2tp_release+0x1e3/0x2b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:447
 __sock_release net/socket.c:649 [inline]
 sock_close+0xb8/0x200 net/socket.c:1335
 __fput+0x22b/0x900 fs/file_table.c:311
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:339
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xd0/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x87/0xd0 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888117df9000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 400 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff888117df9000, ffff888117df9200)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00045f7e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x117df8
head:ffffea00045f7e00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 ffffea00049eb700 0000000600000006 ffff888100042f00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 103, ts 6946624928, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x192/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2607
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2613
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2c3a/0x2cd0 mm/page_alloc.c:4487
 __alloc_pages+0x1a2/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:5824
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1937 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa0/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:2000
 ___slab_alloc+0x3ac/0x840 mm/slub.c:3033
 __slab_alloc+0x49/0x90 mm/slub.c:3120
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3211 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3255 [inline]
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x169/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4954
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:357 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x210/0x730 net/core/skbuff.c:428
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1183 [inline]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xa8/0x620 net/core/skbuff.c:6207
 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x87f/0x9a0 net/core/sock.c:2542
 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x6f3/0x19b0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1816
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x2a6/0x3a0 net/socket.c:1079
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2212 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x831/0xfd0 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x14a/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:659 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:656 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:656
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888117df9080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888117df9100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888117df9180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff888117df9200: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888117df9280: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/24 23:40 android13-5.15-lts c85054db4618 302586aa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 14:14 android13-5.15-lts 7ad09e849dbe 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.