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KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (3)

Status: premoderation: reported on 2025/09/15 04:31
Reported-by: syzbot+88b7cb1ae4dd83641bba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 55d, last: 12d
Similar bugs (10)
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 24 2 384d 408d 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) 24 3 183d 283d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/08 12:20
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 24 2 415d 438d 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 24 2 500d 514d 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 24 C 18 10d 242d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/13 02:24
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete 24 2 833d 921d 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) 24 2 328d 416d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/03/26 11:58
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete origin:downstream 24 syz 19 24d 397d 0/2 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2024/10/08 10:15
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete (3) 24 1 108d 108d 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 24 C done 1286 483d 502d 27/29 fixed on 2024/08/14 03:44

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in test_and_set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:70 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_session_delete+0x24/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1563
Write of size 8 at addr ffff8881180fe808 by task kworker/u4:3/296

CPU: 1 PID: 296 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Workqueue: l2tp l2tp_tunnel_del_work
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x169/0x1d8 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+0xe2/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x280/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/shadow.c:37
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
 test_and_set_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h:70 [inline]
 l2tp_session_delete+0x24/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1563
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1218 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x1d2/0x3e0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1258
 process_one_work+0x6e1/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2301
 worker_thread+0xa6a/0x13b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2447
 kthread+0x346/0x3d0 kernel/kthread.c:313
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298

Allocated by task 609:
 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+0xda/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:518
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x1a7/0x330 mm/slub.c:4038
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:557 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:664 [inline]
 l2tp_session_create+0x39/0xb60 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1599
 pppol2tp_connect+0xb35/0x1570 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:782
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1866 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x38c/0x410 net/socket.c:1883
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1893 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1890 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1890
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Freed by task 12:
 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_dec_refcount+0xb2/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:205
 pppol2tp_session_destruct+0xb1/0xf0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:419
 __sk_destruct+0x53/0x600 net/core/sock.c:1818
 sk_destruct net/core/sock.c:1863 [inline]
 __sk_free+0x313/0x410 net/core/sock.c:1874
 sk_free+0x54/0x90 net/core/sock.c:1885
 sock_put include/net/sock.h:1894 [inline]
 pppol2tp_put_sk+0x7a/0xb0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:402
 rcu_do_batch+0x4df/0xa80 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2494
 rcu_core+0x55f/0xd60 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2735
 rcu_core_si+0x9/0x10 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2748
 __do_softirq+0x255/0x563 kernel/softirq.c:309

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 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2980 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x10e/0x1050 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3054
 pppol2tp_release+0x208/0x2d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:458
 __sock_release net/socket.c:597 [inline]
 sock_close+0xe0/0x270 net/socket.c:1286
 __fput+0x2fb/0x770 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881180fe800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff8881180fe800, ffff8881180fea00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004603f00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8881180ff400 pfn:0x1180fc
head:ffffea0004603f00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 4000000000010200 ffffea0004603e00 0000000200000002 ffff888100043080
raw: ffff8881180ff400 000000008010000d 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 108, ts 6174720410, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:35 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:2456 [inline]
 prep_new_page+0x179/0x180 mm/page_alloc.c:2462
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2235/0x23d0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x268/0x5f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5370
 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+0x2a6/0x450 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+0x1ef/0x320 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]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xa2/0x560 net/core/skbuff.c:5993
 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x853/0x980 net/core/sock.c:2393
 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x5f4/0x17d0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1725
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x29c/0x380 net/socket.c:1018
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2066 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:518 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x725/0xd60 fs/read_write.c:605
 ksys_write+0x140/0x240 fs/read_write.c:658
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:670 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:667 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:667
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8881180fe700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8881180fe780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8881180fe800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff8881180fe880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8881180fe900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
------------[ cut here ]------------
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 296 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x120/0x1a0 lib/refcount.c:28
Modules linked in:

CPU: 0 PID: 296 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Tainted: G    B             syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Workqueue: l2tp l2tp_tunnel_del_work
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x120/0x1a0 lib/refcount.c:28
Code: 04 01 48 c7 c7 20 0e 20 85 e8 6c e5 34 02 0f 0b eb c3 e8 63 3b 29 ff c6 05 61 0a 66 04 01 48 c7 c7 80 0e 20 85 e8 50 e5 34 02 <0f> 0b eb a7 e8 47 3b 29 ff c6 05 42 0a 66 04 01 48 c7 c7 a0 0d 20
RSP: 0018:ffffc90007977c50 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: a8003238668fb000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: ffff88812708a780
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc90007977c60 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000003
R10: fffff52000f2eed0 R11: 1ffff92000f2eed0 R12: ffff8881180ff820
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881f7000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c2a4c50 CR3: 0000000117b34000 CR4: 00000000003506b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:283 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]
 l2tp_session_dec_refcount+0xcb/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:204
 l2tp_session_delete+0x3ab/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1572
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1218 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x1d2/0x3e0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1258
 process_one_work+0x6e1/0xba0 kernel/workqueue.c:2301
 worker_thread+0xa6a/0x13b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2447
 kthread+0x346/0x3d0 kernel/kthread.c:313
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298
---[ end trace 5078cb62afce4be7 ]---

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/28 07:03 android13-5.10-lts 2ece552169c2 fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete
2025/09/15 04:30 android13-5.10-lts 911f602c2237 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in l2tp_session_delete
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.