KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_get_session

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/07/05 05:21
Reported-by: syzbot+525f2200000ed7667792@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 48d, last: 13d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_get_session 19 4 3d17h 29d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/07/23 21:14
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_get_session 19 4 28d 57d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/06/26 07:57

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_tunnel_get_session+0xcd/0x170 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:270
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810c73a018 by task syz.5.386/1810

CPU: 0 PID: 1810 Comm: syz.5.386 Tainted: G        W         syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x1a7/0x208 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:435 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x100/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:308
 l2tp_tunnel_get_session+0xcd/0x170 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:270
 pppol2tp_connect+0xb3c/0x1640 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:747
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1867 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3ce/0x450 net/socket.c:1884
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1894 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1891 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1891
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f0cc24750d9
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:00007f0cc0ece028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0cc26fcfa0 RCX: 00007f0cc24750d9
RDX: 000000000000002e RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f0cc250c024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0cc26fd038 R14: 00007f0cc26fcfa0 R15: 00007ffec0f194c8

Allocated by task 1810:
 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:430 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:509 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x100 mm/kasan/common.c:518
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x19f/0x330 mm/slub.c:4038
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:560 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:667 [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:1867 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3ce/0x450 net/socket.c:1884
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1894 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1891 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1891
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Freed by task 1810:
 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:362
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:370
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:220 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1600 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc5/0x190 mm/slub.c:1626
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3208 [inline]
 kfree+0xc0/0x270 mm/slub.c:4196
 l2tp_session_free net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:168 [inline]
 l2tp_session_put+0xb2/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:193
 pppol2tp_ioctl+0x748/0x960 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:-1
 pppox_ioctl+0x1e4/0x320 drivers/net/ppp/pppox.c:93
 sock_do_ioctl+0xda/0x380 net/socket.c:1068
 sock_ioctl+0x472/0x740 net/socket.c:1208
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:48 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:753 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x121/0x1a0 fs/ioctl.c:739
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0x90 fs/ioctl.c:739
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

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
 kvfree_call_rcu+0x117/0x670 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3539
 drop_sysctl_table+0x2f5/0x430 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1684
 unregister_sysctl_table+0x75/0x120 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1722
 unregister_net_sysctl_table+0x15/0x20 net/sysctl_net.c:127
 netfilter_log_sysctl_exit net/netfilter/nf_log.c:524 [inline]
 nf_log_net_exit+0x60/0xc0 net/netfilter/nf_log.c:565
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:185 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x589/0xb80 net/core/net_namespace.c:609
 process_one_work+0x6fd/0xbc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2301
 worker_thread+0xa8e/0x13c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2447
 kthread+0x324/0x3b0 kernel/kthread.c:313
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810c73a000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff88810c73a000, ffff88810c73a200)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea000431ce00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x10c738
head:ffffea000431ce00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 4000000000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888100043080
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 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 280, ts 24235043458, free_ts 24170503881
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:35 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:2456 [inline]
 prep_new_page+0x176/0x190 mm/page_alloc.c:2462
 get_page_from_freelist+0x225f/0x23f0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x29a/0x640 mm/page_alloc.c:5384
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1813 [inline]
 new_slab+0x84/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:1874
 new_slab_objects mm/slub.c:2632 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x2f8/0x4c0 mm/slub.c:2796
 __slab_alloc+0x63/0xa0 mm/slub.c:2836
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2918 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1e4/0x310 mm/slub.c:4541
 __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:144 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0xdc/0x520 net/core/skbuff.c:212
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:953 [inline]
 netlink_ack+0x35c/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2443
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x267/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2514
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5640
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x86c/0xa30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1340
 netlink_sendmsg+0x949/0xb70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1919
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x467/0x620 net/socket.c:2007
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2019 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2015 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe5/0x100 net/socket.c:2015
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:28 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1349 [inline]
 __free_pages_ok+0x80b/0x830 mm/page_alloc.c:1629
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:5445 [inline]
 __free_pages+0xd8/0x390 mm/page_alloc.c:5454
 __free_slab+0xcf/0x190 mm/slub.c:1899
 free_slab mm/slub.c:1914 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:1920 [inline]
 unfreeze_partials+0x150/0x180 mm/slub.c:2415
 put_cpu_partial+0xc1/0x180 mm/slub.c:2451
 __slab_free+0x2c9/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:3100
 do_slab_free mm/slub.c:3196 [inline]
 ___cache_free+0x10e/0x130 mm/slub.c:3215
 qlink_free+0x50/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:157
 qlist_free_all+0x5f/0xb0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14a/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:440
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:244 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x5d/0x2f0 mm/slab.h:580
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2952 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x155/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2977
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:555 [inline]
 syslog_print+0x127/0x720 kernel/printk/printk.c:1487
 do_syslog+0x94c/0x9a0 kernel/printk/printk.c:1644
 __do_sys_syslog kernel/printk/printk.c:1736 [inline]
 __se_sys_syslog kernel/printk/printk.c:1734 [inline]
 __x64_sys_syslog+0x7c/0x90 kernel/printk/printk.c:1734

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88810c739f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88810c739f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88810c73a000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff88810c73a080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88810c73a100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1810 at net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:156 pppol2tp_sock_to_session+0x167/0x1b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:156
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1810 Comm: syz.5.386 Tainted: G    B   W         syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:pppol2tp_sock_to_session+0x167/0x1b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:156
Code: 5d c3 e8 8c dc 35 fd be 02 00 00 00 eb 0a e8 80 dc 35 fd be 01 00 00 00 4c 89 f7 e8 f3 32 0f fe e9 0f ff ff ff e8 69 dc 35 fd <0f> 0b 48 89 df e8 ef 00 00 00 eb bd e8 58 dc 35 fd 4c 89 f7 be 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000fa7d68 EFLAGS: 00010283

RAX: ffffffff842ec977 RBX: ffff88810aae8000 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9000182a000 RSI: 0000000000000784 RDI: 0000000000000785
RBP: ffffc90000fa7d88 R08: ffff88810aae8083 R09: 1ffff1102155d010
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed102155d011 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000016ecaea0 R15: ffff88810c73a000
FS:  00007f0cc0ece6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200001000000 CR3: 0000000115b9c000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 pppol2tp_release+0x150/0x2b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:435
 __sock_release net/socket.c:597 [inline]
 sock_close+0xb8/0x200 net/socket.c:1287
 __fput+0x2dc/0x730 fs/file_table.c:281
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:314
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:189
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:188 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xcb/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:172
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x76/0xa0 kernel/entry/common.c:199
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:274
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:56
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f0cc24750d9
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:00007f0cc0ece028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f0cc26fcfa0 RCX: 00007f0cc24750d9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffffffffffff RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f0cc250c024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0cc26fd038 R14: 00007f0cc26fcfa0 R15: 00007ffec0f194c8
---[ end trace da7657ac10be6653 ]---

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/08 19:49 android13-5.10-lts 447db0046f21 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_get_session
2026/07/05 05:20 android13-5.10-lts 1bb06dbd8c78 fcece630 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_get_session
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.