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KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/06/22 14:15
Reported-by: syzbot+438348e4a448fbeb15a3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 3d11h, last: 9h37m
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue 22 C 52 1d17h 11d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/14 23:49
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue 22 C 15 10h06m 3d04h 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/22 22:11
upstream general protection fault in rcu_segcblist_enqueue kvm-x86 2 C done done 368 1753d 1817d 20/29 fixed on 2022/03/08 16:11

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rcu_segcblist_enqueue+0x9c/0xb0 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c:348
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888128b3cd90 by task syz.1.459/1873

CPU: 1 PID: 1873 Comm: syz.1.459 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_store8_noabort+0x17/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:314
 rcu_segcblist_enqueue+0x9c/0xb0 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c:348
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3030 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x549/0xf60 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3129
 security_inode_free+0xb4/0xd0 security/security.c:1066
 __destroy_inode+0x175/0x4f0 fs/inode.c:289
 destroy_inode fs/inode.c:312 [inline]
 evict+0x769/0x8b0 fs/inode.c:665
 iput_final fs/inode.c:1779 [inline]
 iput+0x651/0x7e0 fs/inode.c:1805
 dentry_unlink_inode+0x338/0x3e0 fs/dcache.c:380
 __dentry_kill+0x45b/0x660 fs/dcache.c:586
 dentry_kill+0xc0/0x2a0 fs/dcache.c:-1
 dput+0x47/0x90 fs/dcache.c:893
 __fput+0x5c7/0x900 fs/file_table.c:319
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:339
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xd0/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x87/0xd0 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fa3034cae59
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:00007ffdc2a49778 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffdc2a49860 RCX: 00007fa3034cae59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000012c8c R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b2d920000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffdc2a498a0
R13: 00007fa303743fac R14: 0000000000012cbf R15: 00007fa303743fa0
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1874:
 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 579:
 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
 l2tp_session_delete+0x3a9/0x4a0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1589
 l2tp_tunnel_closeall net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1235 [inline]
 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x180/0x3d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1273
 process_one_work+0x6c8/0xbb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2328
 worker_thread+0xaa0/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:2475
 kthread+0x3f5/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:337
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3a/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xd2/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc+0xb/0x10 mm/kasan/generic.c:358
 __call_rcu_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:3011 [inline]
 call_rcu+0x10b/0xf60 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3129
 pppol2tp_release+0x1e3/0x2b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:447
 __sock_release net/socket.c:649 [inline]
 sock_close+0xb8/0x200 net/socket.c:1335
 __fput+0x22b/0x900 fs/file_table.c:311
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:339
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xd0/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x87/0xd0 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888128b3cc00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 400 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff888128b3cc00, ffff888128b3ce00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004a2cf00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888128b3fc00 pfn:0x128b3c
head:ffffea0004a2cf00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 ffffea000425f500 0000000200000002 ffff888100042f00
raw: ffff888128b3fc00 000000008010000e 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 288, ts 19000799217, 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_track_caller+0x169/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4954
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:357 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x210/0x730 net/core/skbuff.c:428
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1183 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:953 [inline]
 netlink_ack+0x35c/0xb10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2446
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x267/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2517
 rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5671
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x86c/0xa30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
 netlink_sendmsg+0x879/0xb80 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1922
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x46d/0x620 net/socket.c:2062
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2074 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2070 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe5/0x100 net/socket.c:2070
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888128b3cc80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888128b3cd00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888128b3cd80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff888128b3ce00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888128b3ce80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/25 16:34 android13-5.15-lts c85054db4618 cfa969bf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/24 23:40 android13-5.15-lts c85054db4618 302586aa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
2026/06/22 14:14 android13-5.15-lts 7ad09e849dbe 43bfcdb0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in rcu_segcblist_enqueue
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.