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WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
syzkaller #0 Not tainted
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syz.4.283/5260 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88805f82d120 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1694 [inline]
ffff88805f82d120 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: ax25_kill_by_device net/ax25/af_ax25.c:99 [inline]
ffff88805f82d120 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: ax25_device_event+0x217/0x4f0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:142

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffff8d238048 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: dev_ioctl+0x54e/0xe50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:586

which lock already depends on the new lock.


the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
       __mutex_lock_common+0x1eb/0x2390 kernel/locking/mutex.c:596
       __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:729 [inline]
       mutex_lock_nested+0x17/0x20 kernel/locking/mutex.c:743
       ax25_setsockopt+0x830/0xa40 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:676
       __sys_setsockopt+0x2bf/0x3d0 net/socket.c:2203
       __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2214 [inline]
       __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2211 [inline]
       __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xb1/0xc0 net/socket.c:2211
       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

-> #0 (sk_lock-AF_AX25){+.+.}-{0:0}:
       check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3053 [inline]
       check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3172 [inline]
       validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3788 [inline]
       __lock_acquire+0x2c33/0x7c60 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5012
       lock_acquire+0x197/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5623
       lock_sock_nested+0x44/0x100 net/core/sock.c:3251
       lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1694 [inline]
       ax25_kill_by_device net/ax25/af_ax25.c:99 [inline]
       ax25_device_event+0x217/0x4f0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:142
       notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
       raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
       call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
       call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
       __dev_notify_flags+0x178/0x2d0 net/core/dev.c:-1
       dev_change_flags+0xe3/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8929
       dev_ifsioc+0x147/0xe70 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:324
       dev_ioctl+0x55f/0xe50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:587
       sock_do_ioctl+0x222/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1154
       sock_ioctl+0x4ed/0x6e0 net/socket.c:1257
       vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
       __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
       __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
       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

other info that might help us debug this:

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(rtnl_mutex);
                               lock(sk_lock-AF_AX25);
                               lock(rtnl_mutex);
  lock(sk_lock-AF_AX25);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

1 lock held by syz.4.283/5260:
 #0: ffffffff8d238048 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: dev_ioctl+0x54e/0xe50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:586

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 5260 Comm: syz.4.283 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 check_noncircular+0x274/0x310 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2133
 check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3053 [inline]
 check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3172 [inline]
 validate_chain kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3788 [inline]
 __lock_acquire+0x2c33/0x7c60 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5012
 lock_acquire+0x197/0x3f0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5623
 lock_sock_nested+0x44/0x100 net/core/sock.c:3251
 lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1694 [inline]
 ax25_kill_by_device net/ax25/af_ax25.c:99 [inline]
 ax25_device_event+0x217/0x4f0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:142
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x178/0x2d0 net/core/dev.c:-1
 dev_change_flags+0xe3/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8929
 dev_ifsioc+0x147/0xe70 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:324
 dev_ioctl+0x55f/0xe50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:587
 sock_do_ioctl+0x222/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1154
 sock_ioctl+0x4ed/0x6e0 net/socket.c:1257
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 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: 0033:0x7f1ecefd6ec9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f1ecd23e038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1ecf22dfa0 RCX: 00007f1ecefd6ec9
RDX: 0000200000000000 RSI: 0000000000008914 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f1ecf059f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1ecf22e038 R14: 00007f1ecf22dfa0 R15: 00007ffcbd5aac28
 </TASK>
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ax25_unregister_dev_sysctl+0x33/0xa0 net/ax25/sysctl_net_ax25.c:172
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880247c5c18 by task syz.4.283/5260

CPU: 1 PID: 5260 Comm: syz.4.283 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 ax25_unregister_dev_sysctl+0x33/0xa0 net/ax25/sysctl_net_ax25.c:172
 ax25_dev_device_down+0x5b/0x520 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:101
 ax25_device_event+0x4b4/0x4f0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:144
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x178/0x2d0 net/core/dev.c:-1
 dev_change_flags+0xe3/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8929
 dev_ifsioc+0x147/0xe70 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:324
 dev_ioctl+0x55f/0xe50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:587
 sock_do_ioctl+0x222/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1154
 sock_ioctl+0x4ed/0x6e0 net/socket.c:1257
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 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: 0033:0x7f1ecefd6ec9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f1ecd23e038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1ecf22dfa0 RCX: 00007f1ecefd6ec9
RDX: 0000200000000000 RSI: 0000000000008914 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f1ecf059f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1ecf22e038 R14: 00007f1ecf22dfa0 R15: 00007ffcbd5aac28
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5046:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:735 [inline]
 ax25_dev_device_up+0x50/0x580 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:55
 ax25_device_event+0x483/0x4f0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:139
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x178/0x2d0 net/core/dev.c:-1
 dev_change_flags+0xe3/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8929
 dev_ifsioc+0x147/0xe70 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:324
 dev_ioctl+0x55f/0xe50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:587
 sock_do_ioctl+0x222/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1154
 sock_ioctl+0x4ed/0x6e0 net/socket.c:1257
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 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 5260:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 ax25_dev_put include/net/ax25.h:302 [inline]
 ax25_kill_by_device net/ax25/af_ax25.c:104 [inline]
 ax25_device_event+0x369/0x4f0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:142
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x178/0x2d0 net/core/dev.c:-1
 dev_change_flags+0xe3/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8929
 dev_ifsioc+0x147/0xe70 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:324
 dev_ioctl+0x55f/0xe50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:587
 sock_do_ioctl+0x222/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1154
 sock_ioctl+0x4ed/0x6e0 net/socket.c:1257
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
 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

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 insert_work+0x54/0x3d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1366
 __queue_work+0x9c5/0xd50 kernel/workqueue.c:1532
 queue_work_on+0x11d/0x1d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1559
 inetaddr_event+0xe0/0x140 drivers/infiniband/core/roce_gid_mgmt.c:869
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x103/0x1b0 kernel/notifier.c:318
 __inet_insert_ifa+0x9e9/0xbc0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:567
 inet_rtm_newaddr+0x940/0x1800 net/ipv4/devinet.c:966
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x9b9/0xe60 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5650
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e0/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2507
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x774/0x920 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ab/0xbc0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1918
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x423/0x580 net/socket.c:2063
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2075 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2071 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2071
 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 ffff8880247c5c00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 192-byte region [ffff8880247c5c00, ffff8880247c5cc0)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea000091f140 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8880247c5700 pfn:0x247c5
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 ffffea00008cb580 0000000400000004 ffff888016841a00
raw: ffff8880247c5700 000000008010000b 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 0x12c00(GFP_NOIO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 1335, ts 11829190145, free_ts 11183152114
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1b77/0x1c60 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1e1/0x470 mm/page_alloc.c:5487
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
 ___slab_alloc+0x81e/0xdf0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x1cd/0x330 mm/slub.c:4408
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:609 [inline]
 usb_alloc_urb+0x3f/0x140 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:74
 usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:95 [inline]
 usb_control_msg+0x115/0x3e0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153
 get_port_status drivers/usb/core/hub.c:596 [inline]
 hub_ext_port_status+0x103/0x6d0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:613
 hub_port_status drivers/usb/core/hub.c:635 [inline]
 hub_activate+0x6e9/0x1a30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:1146
 process_one_work+0x863/0x1000 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page_list+0x122/0x7e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3433
 release_pages+0x184b/0x1bb0 mm/swap.c:963
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:49 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:240 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu mm/mmu_gather.c:247 [inline]
 tlb_finish_mmu+0x164/0x2e0 mm/mmu_gather.c:338
 exit_mmap+0x3a6/0x5f0 mm/mmap.c:3218
 __mmput+0x115/0x3b0 kernel/fork.c:1127
 free_bprm+0x141/0x300 fs/exec.c:1494
 kernel_execve+0x380/0x900 fs/exec.c:2015
 call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x207/0x350 kernel/umh.c:112
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880247c5b00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff8880247c5b80: 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8880247c5c00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff8880247c5c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8880247c5d00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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