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KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_get_session

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/06/26 07:57
Reported-by: syzbot+c6fe0d9e1c90024903c0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6h38m, last: 6h38m

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_tunnel_get_session+0xcd/0x170 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:270
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88812985c418 by task syz.6.296/1473

CPU: 1 PID: 1473 Comm: syz.6.296 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:427 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x10f/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:444
 __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:308
 l2tp_tunnel_get_session+0xcd/0x170 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:270
 pppol2tp_connect+0xb3c/0x1640 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:747
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1922 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3cb/0x450 net/socket.c:1939
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1949 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1946 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1946
 x64_sys_call+0x7c/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:43
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f2f39379e59
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:00007f2f37dd4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2f395f2fa0 RCX: 00007f2f39379e59
RDX: 000000000000002e RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: 000000000000000c
RBP: 00007f2f3940fe6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f2f395f3038 R14: 00007f2f395f2fa0 R15: 00007ffec3c628e8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1473:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:433 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:512 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x100 mm/kasan/common.c:521
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:227 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x13d/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4436
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:624 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:750 [inline]
 l2tp_session_create+0x39/0xb60 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1616
 pppol2tp_connect+0xbf5/0x1640 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:772
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1922 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3cb/0x450 net/socket.c:1939
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1949 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1946 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1946
 x64_sys_call+0x7c/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:43
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Freed by task 1473:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4a/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x23/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x125/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:365
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:373
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:193 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1728 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc2/0x190 mm/slub.c:1754
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3526 [inline]
 kfree+0xc4/0x270 mm/slub.c:4588
 l2tp_session_free net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:168 [inline]
 l2tp_session_put+0xaf/0x1a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:193
 pppol2tp_ioctl+0x748/0x960 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:-1
 pppox_ioctl+0x1e4/0x320 drivers/net/ppp/pppox.c:93
 sock_do_ioctl+0x103/0x310 net/socket.c:1137
 sock_ioctl+0x459/0x6d0 net/socket.c:1256
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x121/0x1a0 fs/ioctl.c:860
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0x90 fs/ioctl.c:860
 x64_sys_call+0x2f/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88812985c400
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff88812985c400, ffff88812985c600)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004a61700 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x12985c
head:ffffea0004a61700 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 ffffea00049caa00 0000000500000005 ffff888100042f00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 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 287, ts 25523625288, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x192/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2607
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2613
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2c3a/0x2cd0 mm/page_alloc.c:4487
 __alloc_pages+0x1a2/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:5824
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1937 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa0/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:2000
 ___slab_alloc+0x3ac/0x840 mm/slub.c:3033
 __slab_alloc+0x49/0x90 mm/slub.c:3120
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3211 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3255 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x16a/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4432
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:624 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:750 [inline]
 fib6_info_alloc+0x34/0xe0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:155
 ip6_route_info_create+0x51b/0x14d0 net/ipv6/route.c:3783
 ip6_route_add+0x27/0x130 net/ipv6/route.c:3879
 addrconf_prefix_route+0x233/0x310 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2468
 inet6_addr_add+0x50b/0x9d0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3025
 inet6_rtm_newaddr+0x6e7/0x9c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4975
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x9fd/0xcb0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5653
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e9/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88812985c300: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88812985c380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88812985c400: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff88812985c480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88812985c500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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cgroup: No subsys list or none specified

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/26 07:56 android13-5.15-lts c85054db4618 7ff32d8b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_get_session
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.