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

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/09/13 07:58
Subsystems: kernel
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+4b7ae7d4f3522fe57318@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d01h, last: 6h11m
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
a0eea77a assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_one_compat_dev 2026/09/11 00:01 2026/09/11 00:01 2026/09/11 00:27 1fe56c0a

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kobject_uevent_net_broadcast+0x110/0x53c lib/kobject_uevent.c:415
Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000f621ced0 by task kworker/u8:17/6617

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6617 Comm: kworker/u8:17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/14/2026
Workqueue: ib-unreg-wq ib_unregister_work
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:499 (C)
 __dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:94
 dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0xb0/0x238 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x68/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x8c/0xc4 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x20/0x2c mm/kasan/report_generic.c:381
 kobject_uevent_net_broadcast+0x110/0x53c lib/kobject_uevent.c:415
 kobject_uevent_env+0x518/0x944 lib/kobject_uevent.c:611
 kobject_uevent+0x2c/0x3c lib/kobject_uevent.c:659
 device_del+0x5f8/0x71c drivers/base/core.c:3983
 remove_one_compat_dev+0x5c/0x7c drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1036
 remove_compat_devs drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1047 [inline]
 disable_device+0x184/0x240 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1339
 __ib_unregister_device+0x214/0x33c drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1571
 ib_unregister_work+0x20/0x38 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:1683
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3387 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x91c/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:3470
 worker_thread+0x798/0xbd0 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
 kthread+0x304/0x3d4 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:838

Allocated by task 7081:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:570
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x9c/0xb4 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2f4/0x5fc mm/slub.c:5563
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 uevent_net_init+0xcc/0x2a0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:782
 ops_init+0x2cc/0x528 net/core/net_namespace.c:137
 setup_net+0x118/0x2fc net/core/net_namespace.c:443
 copy_net_ns+0x454/0x698 net/core/net_namespace.c:582
 create_new_namespaces+0x304/0x50c kernel/nsproxy.c:132
 copy_namespaces+0x3fc/0x474 kernel/nsproxy.c:195
 copy_process+0x177c/0x332c kernel/fork.c:2310
 kernel_clone+0x234/0x9fc kernel/fork.c:2766
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2908 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2876 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_clone+0x168/0x1d4 kernel/fork.c:2876
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x244 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
 el0_svc_common+0xec/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:121
 do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x5c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 el0_svc+0x64/0x260 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:758
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x44/0x104 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:777
 el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:590

Freed by task 13:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x40/0x78 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x54/0x6c mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x74/0xa4 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
 kfree+0x188/0x698 mm/slub.c:6792
 uevent_net_exit+0x1b0/0x1cc lib/kobject_uevent.c:816
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:200 [inline]
 ops_undo_list+0x3cc/0x81c net/core/net_namespace.c:253
 cleanup_net+0x474/0x6c4 net/core/net_namespace.c:706
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3387 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0x91c/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:3470
 worker_thread+0x798/0xbd0 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
 kthread+0x304/0x3d4 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:838

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff0000f621cec0
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-32 of size 32
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 freed 32-byte region [ffff0000f621cec0, ffff0000f621cee0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff0000f621ca40 pfn:0x13621c
flags: 0x5ffc00000000200(workingset|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 05ffc00000000200 ffff0000c0001780 fffffdffc3334710 fffffdffc346e790
raw: ffff0000f621ca40 0000000000400039 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff0000f621cd80: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
 ffff0000f621ce00: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
>ffff0000f621ce80: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
                                                 ^
 ffff0000f621cf00: 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff0000f621cf80: fa fb fb fb fc fc fc fc 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc
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Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/13 03:29 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_one_compat_dev
2026/09/09 07:54 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5445d6419962 8387c273 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in remove_one_compat_dev
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.