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KASAN: invalid-free in rcu_free_sheaf

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/12 20:43
Subsystems: mm
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+60332fd095f8bb2946ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 8d15h, last: 8h20m
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fb1c2244-7846-4925-aea2-4d5887261b5c assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: invalid-free in rcu_free_sheaf 2026/06/10 06:10 2026/06/10 06:10 2026/06/10 06:52 34dab4be5c118c76aea929f2aa0c188548615110

			
		
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[syzbot] [mm?] KASAN: invalid-free in rcu_free_sheaf 0 (1) 2026/06/12 20:43

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: double-free in rcu_free_sheaf+0x31/0x200 mm/slub.c:5850
Free of addr ffff888022b3a100 by task kworker/u8:9/1126

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1126 Comm: kworker/u8:9 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: krds_cp_wq#4/3 rds_connect_worker
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report_invalid_free+0xea/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:557
 check_slab_allocation mm/kasan/common.c:-1 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_pre_free+0x104/0x120 mm/kasan/common.c:261
 kasan_slab_pre_free include/linux/kasan.h:199 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2634 [inline]
 __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0x10a/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:2940
 rcu_free_sheaf+0x31/0x200 mm/slub.c:5850
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x78b/0x10a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 __inet6_bind+0x386/0xf30 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:419
 kernel_bind+0x13e/0x1c0 net/socket.c:3661
 rds_tcp_conn_path_connect+0x53b/0x920 net/rds/tcp_connect.c:175
 rds_connect_worker+0x1d8/0x290 net/rds/threads.c:176
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x389/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5616:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x318/0x660 mm/slub.c:5420
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 hwsim_update_pib+0x88/0x450 drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c:101
 hwsim_set_promiscuous_mode+0x196/0x2e0 drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c:323
 drv_set_promiscuous_mode+0x159/0x2e0 net/mac802154/driver-ops.h:127
 drv_start net/mac802154/driver-ops.h:195 [inline]
 mac802154_slave_open net/mac802154/iface.c:196 [inline]
 mac802154_wpan_open+0x196e/0x29f0 net/mac802154/iface.c:295
 __dev_open+0x46f/0x850 net/core/dev.c:1702
 __dev_change_flags+0x329/0x820 net/core/dev.c:9752
 netif_change_flags+0x7c/0x1b0 net/core/dev.c:9815
 do_setlink+0xdd6/0x4670 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3207
 rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3841 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:4014 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x15c2/0x1bd0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4151
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x802/0xc00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7068
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2556
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x7bb/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1900
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x672/0x710 net/socket.c:2266
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2273 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2269 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2269
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 1126:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2689 [inline]
 __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0x12d/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:2940
 rcu_free_sheaf+0x31/0x200 mm/slub.c:5850
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x78b/0x10a0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869
 handle_softirqs+0x225/0x840 kernel/softirq.c:622
 do_softirq+0x76/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:523
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xf8/0x130 kernel/softirq.c:450
 __inet6_bind+0x386/0xf30 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:419
 kernel_bind+0x13e/0x1c0 net/socket.c:3661
 rds_tcp_conn_path_connect+0x53b/0x920 net/rds/tcp_connect.c:175
 rds_connect_worker+0x1d8/0x290 net/rds/threads.c:176
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x389/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888022b3a100
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-64 of size 64
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
 64-byte region [ffff888022b3a100, ffff888022b3a140)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x22b3a
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88813fe168c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800200020 00000000f5000000 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 0xd2c40(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4997, tgid 4997 (udevadm), ts 32940877688, free_ts 29794072983
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x22d/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1853
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1861 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24ae/0x2530 mm/page_alloc.c:3941
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5221
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x336/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7272
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x320/0x720 mm/slub.c:4652
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4750 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4884 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5295 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x464/0x750 mm/slub.c:5308
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode2 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:45 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode+0x2ad/0x570 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:80
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x5fa/0x640 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:283
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x283/0x560 security/tomoyo/file.c:827
 security_inode_getattr+0x12b/0x310 security/security.c:1895
 vfs_getattr+0x23/0x70 fs/stat.c:259
 vfs_statx_path+0x2b/0x230 fs/stat.c:299
 vfs_statx+0x12e/0x200 fs/stat.c:356
 vfs_fstatat+0x11b/0x170 fs/stat.c:373
 __do_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:538 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstatat fs/stat.c:532 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstatat+0x151/0x200 fs/stat.c:532
page last free pid 1 tgid 1 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1397 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc0d/0xd20 mm/page_alloc.c:2938
 kasan_depopulate_vmalloc_pte+0x6d/0x90 mm/kasan/shadow.c:484
 apply_to_pte_range mm/memory.c:3338 [inline]
 apply_to_pmd_range mm/memory.c:3382 [inline]
 apply_to_pud_range mm/memory.c:3418 [inline]
 apply_to_p4d_range mm/memory.c:3454 [inline]
 __apply_to_page_range+0xbd8/0x1420 mm/memory.c:3490
 __kasan_release_vmalloc+0xa2/0xd0 mm/kasan/shadow.c:602
 kasan_release_vmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:593 [inline]
 kasan_release_vmalloc_node mm/vmalloc.c:2284 [inline]
 purge_vmap_node+0x220/0x960 mm/vmalloc.c:2306
 __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x783/0xb40 mm/vmalloc.c:2396
 _vm_unmap_aliases+0x732/0x7e0 mm/vmalloc.c:2990
 change_page_attr_set_clr+0x307/0xf60 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:2101
 change_page_attr_set arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:2142 [inline]
 set_memory_nx+0xd6/0x110 arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c:2318
 free_init_pages arch/x86/mm/init.c:933 [inline]
 free_kernel_image_pages+0x85/0x100 arch/x86/mm/init.c:952
 kernel_init+0x31/0x1d0 init/main.c:1602
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888022b3a000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888022b3a080: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888022b3a100: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                   ^
 ffff888022b3a180: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888022b3a200: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/17 03:25 net-next 72dfa4700f78 0e4b3e40 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in rcu_free_sheaf
2026/06/11 22:03 net-next 0ce346bf2f68 d93a6ab6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in rcu_free_sheaf
2026/06/08 20:36 net-next 903db046d557 656e94c6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: invalid-free in rcu_free_sheaf
2026/06/12 02:46 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 596d152bc5e3 e93da63e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: invalid-free in rcu_free_sheaf
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.