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KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/11 16:19
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+9da04cc1c19a8165b176@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 11d, last: 6h08m
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/06/16 lts (merge base) ad16b162f21d C [report] lost connection to test machine
2026/06/16 upstream (ToT) 481329ec5b31 C [report] lost connection to test machine
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue kernel 19 1 2993d 2993d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2018/04/12 23:01
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue (2) 19 C 20 48m 38m 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/22 21:37
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue 19 1 1699d 1693d 0/2 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/02/24 12:16
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue 19 8 7h46m 8h30m 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/06/22 13:45
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in rcu_cblist_dequeue rcu 8 6 294d 298d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/10 12:07
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue crypto 19 1 176d 172d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/03/28 00:06

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rcu_cblist_dequeue+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c:75
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810fc9a990 by task ksoftirqd/0/13

CPU: 0 PID: 13 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 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
 rcu_cblist_dequeue+0x6c/0xb0 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c:75
 rcu_do_batch+0x4bc/0xc30 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2285
 rcu_core+0x486/0xf00 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+0x48c/0x8e0 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x281/0x320 kernel/kthread.c:386
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 398:
 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 8:
 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

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/0xf50 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2926
 pppol2tp_release+0x1e3/0x2b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:446
 __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
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:39 [inline]
 do_exit+0xaf2/0x2850 kernel/exit.c:887
 __do_sys_exit kernel/exit.c:996 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit kernel/exit.c:994 [inline]
 __cfi___ia32_sys_exit+0x0/0x10 kernel/exit.c:994
 x64_sys_call+0x67/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:61
 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 ffff88810fc9a800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 400 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff88810fc9a800, ffff88810fc9aa00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00043f2600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x10fc98
head:ffffea00043f2600 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 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 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 376, tgid 376 (syz-executor), ts 28137201446, free_ts 26022580782
 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_node_track_caller+0xa1/0x1e0 mm/slab_common.c:958
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:449 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/core/skbuff.c:518
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:987 [inline]
 netlink_ack+0x373/0x1160 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2458
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x27e/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2527
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6171
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x8c1/0xa60 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b9/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1873
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1580 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1654 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x80c/0x820 mm/page_alloc.c:3621
 free_unref_page+0x93/0x530 mm/page_alloc.c:3719
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:863 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x67/0x100 mm/page_alloc.c:6020
 __vunmap+0xa3c/0xc00 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+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
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:39 [inline]
 do_exit+0xaf2/0x2850 kernel/exit.c:887
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2e0 kernel/exit.c:1030
 get_signal+0x1382/0x14f0 kernel/signal.c:2891
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88810fc9a880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88810fc9a900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88810fc9a980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88810fc9aa00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88810fc9aa80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (83):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/22 03:36 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/11 16:07 android14-6.1 bf32db543281 d93a6ab6 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/22 16:07 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/22 09:18 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/22 07:28 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/22 02:23 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/21 20:16 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/21 18:00 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/21 08:50 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/21 06:00 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/21 03:48 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/21 00:09 android14-6.1 72813af230c7 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/20 11:06 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/20 08:34 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/20 07:33 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/20 01:18 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/19 23:54 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/19 22:26 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/19 21:09 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/19 14:38 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c 570c59ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/18 14:12 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c a776b0d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/17 21:12 android14-6.1 9f35ca3ff66c b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/17 05:42 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 rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/16 10:21 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/16 02:40 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/15 13:25 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 50bb0618 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/15 09:21 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/15 07:31 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/15 02:31 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/15 01:59 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/15 00:45 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 23:49 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 22:16 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 21:11 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 16:50 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 16:23 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 15:26 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 15:25 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 10:27 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 09:45 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 09:08 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 07:45 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 01:48 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 01:35 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/14 01:35 android14-6.1 f17c14b8ada7 1d2f3589 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/11 02:13 android14-6.1 bf32db543281 b754d2d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/11 02:13 android14-6.1 bf32db543281 b754d2d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
2026/06/11 02:03 android14-6.1 bf32db543281 b754d2d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rcu_cblist_dequeue
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.