KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_xmit_skb

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/06/17 02:44
Reported-by: syzbot+ce7df37362d96778566f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 65d, last: 54d

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_xmit_core net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1031 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_xmit_skb+0x4a/0x18e0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1132
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888121ec0410 by task syz.5.602/1884

CPU: 0 PID: 1884 Comm: syz.5.602 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
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
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:351
 l2tp_xmit_core net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1031 [inline]
 l2tp_xmit_skb+0x4a/0x18e0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1132
 pppol2tp_sendmsg+0x357/0x5d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:307
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5fb/0x9c0 net/socket.c:2508
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a2/0x360 net/socket.c:2562
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x2cc/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2648
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2677 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2674
 x64_sys_call+0x3f5/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7fa0c0f9ce59
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:00007fa0c1edb028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa0c1215fa0 RCX: 00007fa0c0f9ce59
RDX: 0000000000034000 RSI: 0000200000004380 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007fa0c1032e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa0c1216038 R14: 00007fa0c1215fa0 R15: 00007fff92e4aee8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1884:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/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+0xb4/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:951
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 l2tp_session_create+0x38/0xbd0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1609
 pppol2tp_connect+0xbf5/0x1640 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:771
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2000 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3da/0x460 net/socket.c:2017
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2027 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2024 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2024
 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 317:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2b/0x40 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_put+0xaf/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:193
 l2tp_session_delete+0x3df/0x4d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1582
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1228 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x199/0x410 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1266
 process_one_work+0x717/0xc30 kernel/workqueue.c:2302
 worker_thread+0xa4d/0x11d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2449
 kthread+0x281/0x320 kernel/kthread.c:386
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888121ec0400
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff888121ec0400, ffff888121ec0600)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea000487b000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x121ec0
head:ffffea000487b000 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 290, tgid 290 (syz-executor), ts 22368434246, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f5/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:2672
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2679
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2ca9/0x2d20 mm/page_alloc.c:4586
 __alloc_pages+0x1fa/0x610 mm/page_alloc.c:5930
 alloc_slab_page+0x6e/0xf0 include/linux/gfp.h:-1
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1967 [inline]
 new_slab+0x98/0x3e0 mm/slub.c:2020
 ___slab_alloc+0x70f/0xb70 mm/slub.c:3177
 __slab_alloc+0x5e/0xa0 mm/slub.c:3263
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3348 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x204/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:3423
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:937 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa4/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:951
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 __register_sysctl_table+0xd9/0xe50 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1345
 register_net_sysctl+0x23f/0x250 net/sysctl_net.c:169
 ipv6_sysctl_net_init+0x368/0x4a0 net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c:283
 ops_init+0x2ce/0x470 net/core/net_namespace.c:138
 setup_net+0x4b4/0xcd0 net/core/net_namespace.c:335
 copy_net_ns+0x355/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:481
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888121ec0300: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888121ec0380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888121ec0400: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff888121ec0480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888121ec0500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1884 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: 1884 Comm: syz.5.602 Tainted: G    B              syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:pppol2tp_sock_to_session+0x167/0x1b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:156
Code: 5d c3 e8 ac bd d5 fc be 02 00 00 00 eb 0a e8 a0 bd d5 fc be 01 00 00 00 4c 89 f7 e8 73 20 cd fd e9 0f ff ff ff e8 89 bd d5 fc <0f> 0b 48 89 df e8 ff 00 00 00 eb bd e8 78 bd d5 fc 4c 89 f7 be 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000757838 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff849ba6a7 RBX: ffff888116514000 RCX: ffff88811a9c6540
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000030792980 RDI: 000000000c04eb7d
RBP: ffffc90000757858 R08: ffff888116514083 R09: 1ffff11022ca2810
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1022ca2811 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000030792980 R15: ffff888121ec0400
FS:  00007fa0c1edb6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2ec23ffc CR3: 000000012904c000 CR4: 00000000003526a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 pppol2tp_sendmsg+0xdf/0x5d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:270
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:728 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5fb/0x9c0 net/socket.c:2508
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a2/0x360 net/socket.c:2562
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x2cc/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2648
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2677 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2674 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2674
 x64_sys_call+0x3f5/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7fa0c0f9ce59
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:00007fa0c1edb028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa0c1215fa0 RCX: 00007fa0c0f9ce59
RDX: 0000000000034000 RSI: 0000200000004380 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007fa0c1032e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa0c1216038 R14: 00007fa0c1215fa0 R15: 00007fff92e4aee8
 </TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1884 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: 1884 Comm: syz.5.602 Tainted: G    B   W          syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
RIP: 0010:pppol2tp_sock_to_session+0x167/0x1b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:156
Code: 5d c3 e8 ac bd d5 fc be 02 00 00 00 eb 0a e8 a0 bd d5 fc be 01 00 00 00 4c 89 f7 e8 73 20 cd fd e9 0f ff ff ff e8 89 bd d5 fc <0f> 0b 48 89 df e8 ff 00 00 00 eb bd e8 78 bd d5 fc 4c 89 f7 be 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000757990 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff849ba6a7 RBX: ffff888116514000 RCX: ffff88811a9c6540
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000030792980 RDI: 000000000c04eb7d
RBP: ffffc900007579b0 R08: ffff888116514083 R09: 1ffff11022ca2810
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1022ca2811 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000030792980 R15: ffff888121ec0400
FS:  00007fa0c1edb6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f6f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2ec23ffc CR3: 000000012904c000 CR4: 00000000003526a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 pppol2tp_release+0x150/0x2b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:434
 __sock_release net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 sock_close+0xc9/0x220 net/socket.c:1389
 __fput+0x1fd/0x8f0 fs/file_table.c:320
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:348
 task_work_run+0x1e1/0x250 kernel/task_work.c:203
 get_signal+0x12b3/0x14f0 kernel/signal.c:2668
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xd1/0x11c0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:871
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x7a/0xb0 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7fa0c0f9ce59
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:00007fa0c1edb028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: 0000000000000167 RBX: 00007fa0c1215fa0 RCX: 00007fa0c0f9ce59
RDX: 0000000000034000 RSI: 0000200000004380 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007fa0c1032e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa0c1216038 R14: 00007fa0c1215fa0 R15: 00007fff92e4aee8
 </TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/28 16:02 android14-6.1 83f1262811ad fb92f11c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_xmit_skb
2026/06/17 02:43 android14-6.1 5f60964e9074 62cc6db3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_xmit_skb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.