KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (2)

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/05/22 02:12
Reported-by: syzbot+855ad1f62ae8779f3d80@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 153d, last: 153d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (14)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 22 2 640d 664d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/19 22:14
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (2) 22 3 440d 540d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/08 12:20
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (3) 22 5 196d 312d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/09 06:46
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (3) 22 3 24d 30d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/06/24 03:10
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (2) 22 1 185d 185d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/29 20:48
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 22 2 672d 694d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/29 03:40
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 22 2 757d 770d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/25 05:09
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (2) origin:downstream 22 C error 29 2d06h 498d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/13 02:24
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 22 2 1089d 1178d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/08 00:22
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (2) 22 2 585d 672d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/26 11:58
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (4) 22 C 7 16d 26d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/28 05:46
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete origin:downstream 22 syz error 20 250d 654d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/02/14 16:29
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (3) 22 1 364d 364d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/02 00:17
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete net 22 C done 1286 739d 759d 27/29 fixed on 2024/08/14 03:44

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:102 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in test_and_set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:71 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_session_delete+0x27/0x4e0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1561
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88812986f008 by task kworker/u4:4/348

CPU: 0 PID: 348 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: l2tp l2tp_tunnel_del_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x71/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:316
 print_report+0x4a/0x60 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x122/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x249/0x2a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/shadow.c:37
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:102 [inline]
 test_and_set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:71 [inline]
 l2tp_session_delete+0x27/0x4e0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1561
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1216 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x201/0x420 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1256
 process_one_work+0x71f/0xc40 kernel/workqueue.c:2302
 worker_thread+0xa29/0x11e0 kernel/workqueue.c:2449
 kthread+0x281/0x320 kernel/kthread.c:386
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 3168:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:505
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:380 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x95/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:389
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:212 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:938 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xb1/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:951
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 l2tp_session_create+0x38/0xbe0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1597
 pppol2tp_connect+0xb91/0x15b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:781
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2001 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3da/0x460 net/socket.c:2018
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2028 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2025 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2025
 x64_sys_call+0x88d/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:43
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 13:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x31/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x132/0x180 mm/kasan/common.c:242
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:250
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:178 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1750 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc2/0x190 mm/slub.c:1776
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3712 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xb7/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:3728
 kfree+0x6f/0xf0 mm/slab_common.c:990
 l2tp_session_free net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:168 [inline]
 l2tp_session_dec_refcount+0xaf/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:205
 pppol2tp_session_destruct+0xb1/0xf0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:418
 __sk_destruct+0x64/0x600 net/core/sock.c:2153
 sk_destruct net/core/sock.c:2198 [inline]
 __sk_free+0x313/0x410 net/core/sock.c:2209
 sk_free+0x54/0x90 net/core/sock.c:2220
 sock_put include/net/sock.h:2098 [inline]
 pppol2tp_put_sk+0x7a/0xb0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:401
 rcu_do_batch+0x52a/0xbc0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2297
 rcu_core+0x5c3/0xe80 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2557
 rcu_core_si+0x9/0x10 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2574
 handle_softirqs+0x1d7/0x600 kernel/softirq.c:642
 run_ksoftirqd+0x28/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:1019
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x4a0/0x910 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x281/0x320 kernel/kthread.c:386
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb6/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:486
 kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc+0xb/0x10 mm/kasan/generic.c:496
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:2807 [inline]
 call_rcu+0xcf/0xf90 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2926
 pppol2tp_release+0x208/0x2d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:457
 __sock_release net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 sock_close+0xf1/0x290 net/socket.c:1390
 __fput+0x1fc/0x8f0 fs/file_table.c:320
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:348
 task_work_run+0x1e1/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:203
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x9b/0xb0 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x87/0xd0 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:292 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:303
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88812986f000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff88812986f000, ffff88812986f200)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0004a61b00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12986c
head:ffffea0004a61b00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 ffffea0004a61a00 dead000000000003 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 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 2543, tgid 2543 (syz-executor), ts 91218474548, free_ts 90531195419
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f5/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:2643
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2650
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2d12/0x2d80 mm/page_alloc.c:4554
 __alloc_pages+0x1d9/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5868
 alloc_slab_page+0x6e/0xf0 include/linux/gfp.h:-1
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1967 [inline]
 new_slab+0x98/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:2020
 ___slab_alloc+0x6bd/0xb20 mm/slub.c:3177
 __slab_alloc+0x5e/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3263
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3348 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x203/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:3423
 kmalloc_trace+0x29/0xb0 mm/slab_common.c:1028
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 ipv6_add_addr+0x411/0xe80 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1119
 addrconf_add_linklocal+0x20e/0x660 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3283
 addrconf_addr_gen+0x542/0x690 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3414
 addrconf_init_auto_addrs+0x841/0xb80 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
 addrconf_notify+0x803/0xe40 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3711
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:87 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xa1/0x110 kernel/notifier.c:455
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1551 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1625 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x742/0x750 mm/page_alloc.c:3589
 free_unref_page+0x95/0x540 mm/page_alloc.c:3687
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:836 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x67/0x100 mm/page_alloc.c:5957
 __vunmap+0x9c0/0xb80 mm/vmalloc.c:2739
 __vfree mm/vmalloc.c:2788 [inline]
 vfree+0x61/0x90 mm/vmalloc.c:2819
 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:437 [inline]
 kcov_close+0x2b/0x50 kernel/kcov.c:533
 __fput+0x1fc/0x8f0 fs/file_table.c:320
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:348
 task_work_run+0x1e1/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:203
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:39 [inline]
 do_exit+0xa35/0x2660 kernel/exit.c:886
 do_group_exit+0x210/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1028
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1039 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1037 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1037
 x64_sys_call+0x7b4/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88812986ef00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88812986ef80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88812986f000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88812986f080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88812986f100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/21 02:03 android14-6.1 edbe3e111301 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.