KASAN: use-after-free Read in rtnl_fill_ifinfo

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/11 03:45
Reported-by: syzbot+e0473d8bb56d3894c1e5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 43d, last: 37d
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in rtnl_fill_ifinfo net 19 4 2914d 2919d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/03/30 06:45
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in rtnl_fill_ifinfo (2) net 19 2 2411d 2412d 15/29 fixed on 2020/04/15 17:19
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rtnl_fill_ifinfo 19 4 37d 52d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/08/02 13:05
upstream general protection fault in rtnl_fill_ifinfo net 2 2 628d 644d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/02/03 10:48

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in strlen+0x53/0x60 lib/string.c:502
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88807d322f20 by task kworker/u4:6/4330

CPU: 0 PID: 4330 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound linkwatch_event
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 strlen+0x53/0x60 lib/string.c:502
 nla_put_string+0x19/0x30 include/net/netlink.h:1522
 rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0x1b8a/0x1d00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:1901
 rtmsg_ifinfo_build_skb+0xe3/0x190 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3984
 rtmsg_ifinfo_event net/core/rtnetlink.c:4018 [inline]
 rtmsg_ifinfo+0xc4/0x200 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4027
 netdev_state_change+0xfa/0x170 net/core/dev.c:1405
 linkwatch_do_dev+0x10d/0x160 net/core/link_watch.c:168
 __linkwatch_run_queue+0x410/0x660 net/core/link_watch.c:221
 linkwatch_event+0x48/0x50 net/core/link_watch.c:264
 process_one_work+0x8ab/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaf5/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4432:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:211 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:936 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xb0/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:956
 kvasprintf+0xe8/0x1a0 lib/kasprintf.c:25
 kobject_set_name_vargs+0x5d/0x110 lib/kobject.c:265
 dev_set_name+0xdf/0x130 drivers/base/core.c:3485
 usb_add_gadget+0x474/0x6f0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1448
 usb_add_gadget_udc_release+0x198/0x1e0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1506
 dummy_udc_probe+0x686/0x780 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1102
 platform_probe+0x137/0x1c0 drivers/base/platform.c:1400
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x24a/0xb40 drivers/base/dd.c:638
 __driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:804
 device_driver_attach+0xd9/0x1c0 drivers/base/dd.c:1131
 bind_store+0x33b/0x380 drivers/base/bus.c:216
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a0/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2265 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x482/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x14d/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 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 4535:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x133/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1755
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x200 mm/slub.c:3700
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:687 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:712 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x25c/0x450 lib/kobject.c:729
 dummy_udc_remove+0x54/0x60 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1123
 platform_remove+0x92/0xe0 drivers/base/platform.c:1422
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:547 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1279 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x47d/0x7c0 drivers/base/dd.c:1305
 unbind_store+0x2e2/0x300 drivers/base/bus.c:193
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a0/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2265 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x482/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x14d/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807d322f20
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-16 of size 16
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
 16-byte region [ffff88807d322f20, ffff88807d322f30)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001f4c880 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7d322
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff8880174413c0
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000800080 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x12c40(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 3621, tgid 3621 (rcS), ts 29271515035, free_ts 26926497061
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2560
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2567 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x206b/0x2180 mm/page_alloc.c:4358
 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5658
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x180 mm/slub.c:1799
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1944 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:1997
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc5/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x126/0x270 mm/slub.c:3398
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa3/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:949
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 tomoyo_add_entry security/tomoyo/common.c:2022 [inline]
 tomoyo_supervisor+0xc66/0x11b0 security/tomoyo/common.c:2094
 tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:36 [inline]
 tomoyo_env_perm+0x14e/0x1f0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:63
 tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:672 [inline]
 tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x12dd/0x1a30 security/tomoyo/domain.c:882
 tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x100/0x150 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:101
 security_bprm_check+0x5e/0x90 security/security.c:870
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1752 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1805 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0xa5d/0x17e0 fs/exec.c:1874
 do_execveat_common+0x501/0x6b0 fs/exec.c:1979
 do_execve fs/exec.c:2053 [inline]
 __do_sys_execve fs/exec.c:2129 [inline]
 __se_sys_execve fs/exec.c:2124 [inline]
 __x64_sys_execve+0x8e/0xa0 fs/exec.c:2124
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1487 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1537 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8e5/0x9e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3414
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3509
 free_contig_range+0x9d/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:9626
 destroy_args+0xef/0xa0e mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1031
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x33c/0x38e mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1359
 do_one_initcall+0x257/0x800 init/main.c:1309
 do_initcall_level+0x13d/0x1ed init/main.c:1382
 do_initcalls+0x4b/0x8a init/main.c:1398
 kernel_init_freeable+0x401/0x5ab init/main.c:1637
 kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1525
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807d322e00: fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc 00 00 fc fc 00 00 fc fc
 ffff88807d322e80: 00 00 fc fc fa fb fc fc 00 03 fc fc fa fb fc fc
>ffff88807d322f00: 00 07 fc fc fa fb fc fc fa fb fc fc 00 04 fc fc
                               ^
 ffff88807d322f80: fa fb fc fc 00 04 fc fc 00 03 fc fc fa fb fc fc
 ffff88807d323000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/17 18:40 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 905244d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rtnl_fill_ifinfo
2026/08/17 18:32 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 905244d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rtnl_fill_ifinfo
2026/08/11 03:44 linux-6.1.y e4f7d8be268e 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in rtnl_fill_ifinfo
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.