KASAN: use-after-free Write in __run_timers

Status: fixed on 2017/11/11 01:37
Fix commit: 0ad646c81b21 net-backports: tun: call dev_get_valid_name() before register_netdevice()
First crash: 3269d, last: 3208d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in __run_timers origin:lts 22 syz, C 1030 4h43m 611d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/12/01 07:19
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in __run_timers origin:lts-only 22 syz, C error 1 202d 235d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/03 21:03
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Write in __run_timers (2) 22 syz, C 752 435d 525d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/02/25 14:17
android-54 KASAN: use-after-free Write in __run_timers 22 syz 449 762d 2214d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/09/11 00:16

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hlist_move_list include/linux/list.h:729 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __collect_expired_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1339 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in collect_expired_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1569 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __run_timers+0xa2e/0xb90 kernel/time/timer.c:1616
Write of size 8 at addr ffff8801cd3f4088 by task syz-executor7/19749

CPU: 1 PID: 19749 Comm: syz-executor7 Not tainted 4.13.0+ #87
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:52
 print_address_description+0x73/0x250 mm/kasan/report.c:252
 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x24e/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:409
 __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x17/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:435
 hlist_move_list include/linux/list.h:729 [inline]
 __collect_expired_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1339 [inline]
 collect_expired_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1569 [inline]
 __run_timers+0xa2e/0xb90 kernel/time/timer.c:1616
 run_timer_softirq+0x4c/0xb0 kernel/time/timer.c:1646
 __do_softirq+0x2bb/0xbd0 kernel/softirq.c:284
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:364 [inline]
 irq_exit+0x1d3/0x210 kernel/softirq.c:405
 exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:638 [inline]
 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x177/0x710 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1048
 apic_timer_interrupt+0x9d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:770
 </IRQ>
RIP: 0010:update_stack_state+0x7a/0x700 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c:189
RSP: 0018:ffff8801c104f5a0 EFLAGS: 00000286 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff10
RAX: ffffed0038209ebc RBX: ffff8801c104f7e8 RCX: ffff8801c104f838
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffff8801c104fb68 RDI: ffff8801c104f7e8
RBP: ffff8801c104f6a8 R08: ffff8801c104f810 R09: ffff8801c104f820
R10: ffff8801c104f798 R11: 1ffff100398022ab R12: 1ffff10038209ebc
R13: ffff8801c104fb68 R14: 1ffff10038209ee3 R15: ffff8801c104f7e8
 unwind_next_frame.part.6+0x1ae/0xc70 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c:302
 unwind_next_frame+0x3e/0x50 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_frame.c:260
 __save_stack_trace+0x6e/0xd0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:44
 save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
 save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447
 set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459 [inline]
 kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:551
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x136/0x750 mm/slab.c:3627
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:493 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:666 [inline]
 alloc_perf_context+0x4c/0xe0 kernel/events/core.c:3814
 find_get_context.isra.84+0x16f/0x670 kernel/events/core.c:3903
 SYSC_perf_event_open+0xd1c/0x2e00 kernel/events/core.c:10068
 SyS_perf_event_open+0x39/0x50 kernel/events/core.c:9899
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x451e59
RSP: 002b:00007fe5cb366c08 EFLAGS: 00000216 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000718160 RCX: 0000000000451e59
RDX: ffffffffffffffff RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 000000002001d000
RBP: 0000000000000082 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffffffffffffff R11: 0000000000000216 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000a6f7ef R14: 00007fe5cb3679c0 R15: 0000000000000011

Allocated by task 19252:
 save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
 save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447
 set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459 [inline]
 kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:551
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab.c:3689 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0x47/0x70 mm/slab.c:3696
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:535 [inline]
 kvmalloc_node+0x64/0xd0 mm/util.c:397
 kvmalloc include/linux/mm.h:529 [inline]
 kvzalloc include/linux/mm.h:537 [inline]
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0x16e/0xed0 net/core/dev.c:8018
 tun_set_iff drivers/net/tun.c:2022 [inline]
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x12be/0x3d20 drivers/net/tun.c:2276
 tun_chr_ioctl+0x2a/0x40 drivers/net/tun.c:2521
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:45 [inline]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x1b1/0x1530 fs/ioctl.c:685
 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:700 [inline]
 SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:691
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe

Freed by task 19252:
 save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
 save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447
 set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459 [inline]
 kasan_slab_free+0x71/0xc0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:524
 __cache_free mm/slab.c:3503 [inline]
 kfree+0xca/0x250 mm/slab.c:3820
 kvfree+0x36/0x60 mm/util.c:416
 netdev_freemem net/core/dev.c:7970 [inline]
 free_netdev+0x2cf/0x360 net/core/dev.c:8132
 tun_set_iff drivers/net/tun.c:2105 [inline]
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x2cf6/0x3d20 drivers/net/tun.c:2276
 tun_chr_ioctl+0x2a/0x40 drivers/net/tun.c:2521
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:45 [inline]
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x1b1/0x1530 fs/ioctl.c:685
 SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:700 [inline]
 SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:691
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8801cd3f0c80
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-16384 of size 16384
The buggy address is located 13320 bytes inside of
 16384-byte region [ffff8801cd3f0c80, ffff8801cd3f4c80)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea000734fc00 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8801cd3f0c80 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0
flags: 0x200000000008100(slab|head)
raw: 0200000000008100 ffff8801cd3f0c80 0000000000000000 0000000100000001
raw: ffffea00072b4820 ffffea000743ca20 ffff8801dac02200 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8801cd3f3f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8801cd3f4000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8801cd3f4080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff8801cd3f4100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8801cd3f4180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (6144):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2017/09/16 23:20 upstream 7318413077a5 96b8e399 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce
2017/09/12 04:30 upstream f007cad159e9 449b6f15 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce
2017/10/21 04:26 upstream 9c323bff13f9 4d9c0713 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386
2017/10/19 23:31 upstream 96f893abc87b 355f57c5 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386
2017/10/03 10:38 upstream 9e66317d3c92 c26ea367 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386
2017/09/29 01:45 upstream 02a2b05395dd c26ea367 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386
2017/09/20 09:27 upstream 820bf5c419e4 4e341009 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386
2017/09/20 08:48 upstream 820bf5c419e4 4e341009 .config console log report ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386
2017/10/06 23:33 mmots fb686cb13e51 c26ea367 .config console log report ci-upstream-mmots-kasan-gce
2017/10/04 10:40 mmots af6dd9aabb86 c26ea367 .config console log report ci-upstream-mmots-kasan-gce
2017/10/04 08:45 linux-next 1418b852174a c26ea367 .config console log report ci-upstream-next-kasan-gce
2017/09/29 18:55 mmots 8fd0520d9cec c26ea367 .config console log report ci-upstream-mmots-kasan-gce
2017/09/14 01:32 linux-next 6f20b7a58cb9 96b8e399 .config console log report skylake-linux-next-kasan-qemu
2017/09/13 12:52 linux-next 6f20b7a58cb9 96b8e399 .config console log report skylake-linux-next-kasan-qemu
2017/09/10 17:13 linux-next 58bcd35f859b d18bfda0 .config console log report skylake-linux-next-kasan-qemu
2017/09/09 16:22 linux-next 58bcd35f859b d18bfda0 .config console log report skylake-linux-next-kasan-qemu
2017/09/09 09:47 linux-next 58bcd35f859b d18bfda0 .config console log report skylake-linux-next-kasan-qemu
2017/09/09 02:36 linux-next 58bcd35f859b d18bfda0 .config console log report skylake-linux-next-kasan-qemu
2017/09/05 08:20 linux-next 744c56def809 0ed1da4a .config console log report skylake-linux-next-kasan-qemu
2017/09/03 18:15 linux-next 1d53d908b79d a54dce00 .config console log report ci-upstream-next-kasan-gce
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.