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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in netdev_need_ops_lock include/net/netdev_lock.h:33 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in netdev_unlock_ops include/net/netdev_lock.h:47 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __linkwatch_run_queue+0x5d6/0x7e0 net/core/link_watch.c:245
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805ca16008 by task kworker/u8:0/12

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Workqueue: events_unbound linkwatch_event
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 netdev_need_ops_lock include/net/netdev_lock.h:33 [inline]
 netdev_unlock_ops include/net/netdev_lock.h:47 [inline]
 __linkwatch_run_queue+0x5d6/0x7e0 net/core/link_watch.c:245
 linkwatch_event+0x4c/0x60 net/core/link_watch.c:304
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x439/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 11935:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:388 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:405
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4376 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x28d/0x550 mm/slub.c:5067
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0xa3/0x11c0 net/core/dev.c:11812
 rtnl_create_link+0x31f/0xd10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3633
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x25c/0xb00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3815
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3942 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x16d6/0x1c70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4057
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7cf/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6946
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x205/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x843/0xa10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
 netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x219/0x270 net/socket.c:729
 __sys_sendto+0x3c7/0x520 net/socket.c:2228
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2235 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2231 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2231
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 4855:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:243 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5b/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:275
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2422 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4695 [inline]
 kfree+0x195/0x550 mm/slub.c:4894
 device_release+0x99/0x1c0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x22b/0x480 lib/kobject.c:737
 netdev_run_todo+0xd2e/0xea0 net/core/dev.c:11513
 default_device_exit_batch+0x81e/0x890 net/core/dev.c:12734
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:204 [inline]
 ops_undo_list+0x525/0x990 net/core/net_namespace.c:251
 cleanup_net+0x4cb/0x800 net/core/net_namespace.c:682
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xade/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x439/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805ca16000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff88805ca16000, ffff88805ca17000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5ca10
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff8880314d6981
anon flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88801984b500 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 ffff8880314d6981
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88801984b500 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 ffff8880314d6981
head: 0080000000000003 ffffea0001728401 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd60c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 11387, tgid 11387 (syz-executor), ts 1118434995238, free_ts 1116928746373
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2119/0x21b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2492 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x8a/0x370 mm/slub.c:2660
 new_slab mm/slub.c:2714 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x8d1/0xdc0 mm/slub.c:3901
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3992 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4067 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4228 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4375 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x1d6/0x550 mm/slub.c:5067
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0xa3/0x11c0 net/core/dev.c:11812
 rtnl_create_link+0x31f/0xd10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3633
 veth_newlink+0x211/0xa50 drivers/net/veth.c:1842
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x310/0xb00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3825
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3942 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x16d6/0x1c70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4057
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7cf/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6946
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x205/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x843/0xa10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
 netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
page last free pid 11575 tgid 11574 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xb59/0xce0 mm/page_alloc.c:2895
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2758 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x159/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:3223
 __slab_free+0x2b3/0x390 mm/slub.c:4565
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x140 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:340
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4191 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4240 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x143/0x310 mm/slub.c:4247
 ptlock_alloc+0x20/0x70 mm/memory.c:7161
 ptlock_init include/linux/mm.h:2953 [inline]
 pagetable_pte_ctor include/linux/mm.h:3002 [inline]
 __pte_alloc_one_noprof include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h:78 [inline]
 pte_alloc_one+0x7d/0x190 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:18
 do_fault_around mm/memory.c:5525 [inline]
 do_read_fault mm/memory.c:5564 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:5707 [inline]
 do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4234 [inline]
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6052 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault mm/memory.c:6195 [inline]
 handle_mm_fault+0x1c43/0x3400 mm/memory.c:6364
 faultin_page mm/gup.c:1144 [inline]
 __get_user_pages+0x16e4/0x2b60 mm/gup.c:1446
 populate_vma_page_range+0x29f/0x3a0 mm/gup.c:1880
 __mm_populate+0x24c/0x380 mm/gup.c:1983
 mm_populate include/linux/mm.h:3367 [inline]
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x38a/0x4d0 mm/util.c:585
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805ca15f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805ca15f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88805ca16000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88805ca16080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805ca16100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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