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KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/05/03 12:30
Reported-by: syzbot+a78d28bdf669a2548ff7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 68d, last: 4h39m
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry (3) hams 19 719 3h54m 52d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2025/05/19 14:23
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry 19 63 8h24m 69d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/05/02 15:02
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry (2) hams 19 158 57d 181d 28/29 fixed on 2025/05/14 23:24
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry hams 19 5 421d 432d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2024/06/04 18:05
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry 19 2 22h32m 22h32m 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/09 17:47

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rose_timer_expiry+0x470/0x490 net/rose/rose_timer.c:183
Read of size 2 at addr ffff88805610f42a by task ksoftirqd/0/15

CPU: 0 PID: 15 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 6.1.142-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x22e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:427
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:531
 rose_timer_expiry+0x470/0x490 net/rose/rose_timer.c:183
 call_timer_fn+0x1a0/0x670 kernel/time/timer.c:1504
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1549 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x525/0x7c0 kernel/time/timer.c:1820
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1833
 handle_softirqs+0x2a1/0x920 kernel/softirq.c:596
 run_ksoftirqd+0x98/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:963
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x64a/0xa40 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6814:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:374 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:383
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:211 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:936 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xae/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:956
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:446 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x22a/0x7e0 net/core/skbuff.c:515
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1271 [inline]
 alloc_uevent_skb+0x7d/0x230 lib/kobject_uevent.c:290
 uevent_net_broadcast_tagged lib/kobject_uevent.c:351 [inline]
 kobject_uevent_net_broadcast+0x17e/0x530 lib/kobject_uevent.c:412
 kobject_uevent_env+0x54c/0x8a0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:608
 __kobject_del+0xd2/0x2f0 lib/kobject.c:593
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:672 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:712 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x235/0x460 lib/kobject.c:729
 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x3e9/0x480 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1731
 netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0x17f/0x8d0 net/core/dev.c:2951
 veth_init_queues+0x83/0x180 drivers/net/veth.c:1650
 veth_newlink+0x96f/0xbe0 drivers/net/veth.c:1773
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3422 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x14c4/0x1ff0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x79b/0xed0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6153
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1de/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2493
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1311 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74c/0x8c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1337
 netlink_sendmsg+0x89e/0xbc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1859
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x44f/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2153
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2165 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2161 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2161
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 6814:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:236
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1724 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1750
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3661 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3674
 skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:762 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x5db/0x7c0 net/core/skbuff.c:791
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:856 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:870 [inline]
 consume_skb+0xa2/0x100 net/core/skbuff.c:1035
 netlink_broadcast+0xff6/0x10f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1508
 uevent_net_broadcast_tagged lib/kobject_uevent.c:372 [inline]
 kobject_uevent_net_broadcast+0x497/0x530 lib/kobject_uevent.c:412
 kobject_uevent_env+0x54c/0x8a0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:608
 __kobject_del+0xd2/0x2f0 lib/kobject.c:593
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:672 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:712 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x235/0x460 lib/kobject.c:729
 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x3e9/0x480 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1731
 netif_set_real_num_tx_queues+0x17f/0x8d0 net/core/dev.c:2951
 veth_init_queues+0x83/0x180 drivers/net/veth.c:1650
 veth_newlink+0x96f/0xbe0 drivers/net/veth.c:1773
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3422 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x14c4/0x1ff0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x79b/0xed0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6153
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1de/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2493
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1311 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74c/0x8c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1337
 netlink_sendmsg+0x89e/0xbc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1859
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x44f/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2153
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2165 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2161 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2161
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb2/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:486
 insert_work+0x54/0x3c0 kernel/workqueue.c:1361
 __queue_work+0xba3/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:1520
 call_timer_fn+0x1a0/0x670 kernel/time/timer.c:1504
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1544 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x550/0x7c0 kernel/time/timer.c:1820
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1833
 handle_softirqs+0x2a1/0x920 kernel/softirq.c:596
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:630 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:470 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x12f/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:679
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:691
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1118
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:691

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805610f400
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 42 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff88805610f400, ffff88805610f600)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001584300 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5610c
head:ffffea0001584300 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff888017441c80
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 0xd28c0(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4274, tgid 4274 (syz-executor), ts 80754629725, free_ts 80748699363
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2532
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2539 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a26/0x1ac0 mm/page_alloc.c:4328
 __alloc_pages+0x1df/0x4e0 mm/page_alloc.c:5614
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1794
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1939 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1992
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1220 mm/slub.c:3180
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3279 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3364 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a0/0x260 mm/slub.c:3437
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x9e/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:956
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:446 [inline]
 pskb_expand_head+0x1a6/0x12a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1848
 netlink_trim+0x180/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1293
 netlink_broadcast+0x75/0x10f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1487
 nlmsg_multicast include/net/netlink.h:1071 [inline]
 nlmsg_notify+0xe7/0x1a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2536
 fib_table_insert+0xd5d/0x1b50 net/ipv4/fib_trie.c:1385
 fib_magic+0x2c1/0x390 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1118
 fib_add_ifaddr+0x140/0x5e0 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1140
 fib_inetaddr_event+0x13c/0x1c0 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c:1454
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1459 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1509 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3384
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3479
 __stack_depot_save+0x435/0x460 lib/stackdepot.c:506
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x60/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6b/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:328
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4b/0x480 mm/slab.h:737
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3398 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3406 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3413 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x123/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:3422
 kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:689 [inline]
 fill_pool lib/debugobjects.c:169 [inline]
 debug_objects_fill_pool+0x438/0x650 lib/debugobjects.c:607
 __debug_object_init+0x29/0x420 lib/debugobjects.c:617
 wg_peer_create+0x306/0x840 drivers/net/wireguard/peer.c:49
 set_peer drivers/net/wireguard/netlink.c:412 [inline]
 wg_set_device+0x100b/0x1ee0 drivers/net/wireguard/netlink.c:592
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22e/0x320 net/netlink/genetlink.c:756
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:833 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x5f2/0x780 net/netlink/genetlink.c:850
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1de/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2493
 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:861
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1311 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74c/0x8c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1337

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805610f300: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805610f380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88805610f400: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                  ^
 ffff88805610f480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805610f500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (23):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/04 11:21 linux-6.1.y 7e69c33e4858 76ad128c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/28 13:07 linux-6.1.y 7e69c33e4858 fc9d8ee5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/28 13:07 linux-6.1.y 7e69c33e4858 fc9d8ee5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/23 05:11 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/23 05:08 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/19 11:50 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f ed3e87f7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/15 03:51 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f 5f4b362d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/15 03:51 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f 5f4b362d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/02 18:58 linux-6.1.y da3c5173c55f b396b4bf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/01 22:22 linux-6.1.y da3c5173c55f 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/01 10:15 linux-6.1.y da3c5173c55f 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/01 06:33 linux-6.1.y da3c5173c55f 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/05/08 04:31 linux-6.1.y ac7079a42ea5 dbf35fa1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/05/08 04:31 linux-6.1.y ac7079a42ea5 dbf35fa1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/05/06 08:51 linux-6.1.y ac7079a42ea5 ae98e6b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/05/05 07:50 linux-6.1.y b6736e03756f b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/05/04 11:12 linux-6.1.y b6736e03756f b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/07/10 11:39 linux-6.1.y 04d1ccaa9c28 956bd956 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/07/08 08:50 linux-6.1.y 04d1ccaa9c28 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/06/22 23:52 linux-6.1.y 58485ff1a74f d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/05/05 05:33 linux-6.1.y b6736e03756f b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/05/03 12:32 linux-6.1.y b6736e03756f b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
2025/05/03 12:29 linux-6.1.y b6736e03756f b0714e37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_timer_expiry
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.