KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_session_register

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/10/12 12:47
Reported-by: syzbot+612ef0651f065d7d77f1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 96d, last: 96d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_session_register net 19 4 3119d 3165d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2019/02/22 10:22
android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_session_register 19 1 115d 115d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/09/23 02:12

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_session_register+0x3b9/0x850 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:387
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888129964018 by task syz.9.775/3477

CPU: 1 PID: 3477 Comm: syz.9.775 Tainted: G        W         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_session_register+0x3b9/0x850 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:387
 pppol2tp_connect+0xd0f/0x1640 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:785
 __sys_connect_file net/socket.c:1923 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3cb/0x450 net/socket.c:1940
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1950 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1947 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1947
 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: 0033:0x7f86fb0cde59
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:00007f86f9b06028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f86fb356090 RCX: 00007f86fb0cde59
RDX: 000000000000002e RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 00007f86fb163e6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f86fb356128 R14: 00007f86fb356090 R15: 00007ffc6df7fa08
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 3476:
 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:1923 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3cb/0x450 net/socket.c:1940
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1950 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1947 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1947
 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 3477:
 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:1138
 sock_ioctl+0x459/0x6d0 net/socket.c:1257
 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

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
 kvfree_call_rcu+0xb6/0x860 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3648
 drop_sysctl_table+0x2f5/0x430 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1687
 drop_sysctl_table+0x2e4/0x430 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1690
 unregister_sysctl_table+0x7a/0x120 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1725
 unregister_net_sysctl_table+0x15/0x20 net/sysctl_net.c:175
 __devinet_sysctl_unregister net/ipv4/devinet.c:2627 [inline]
 devinet_sysctl_unregister net/ipv4/devinet.c:2655 [inline]
 inetdev_destroy net/ipv4/devinet.c:327 [inline]
 inetdev_event+0x788/0x1060 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1612
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x90/0x100 kernel/notifier.c:391
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info net/core/dev.c:2070 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2082 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2096 [inline]
 unregister_netdevice_many+0x103d/0x1a00 net/core/dev.c:11176
 default_device_exit_batch+0x35e/0x3c0 net/core/dev.c:11709
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:177 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x605/0xae0 net/core/net_namespace.c:599
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888129964000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff888129964000, ffff888129964200)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004a65900 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x129964
head:ffffea0004a65900 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 ffffea000437fd00 0000000400000004 ffff888100042f00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 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 0xd2a20(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 58, ts 24590491580, 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]
 ndisc_alloc_skb net/ipv6/ndisc.c:422 [inline]
 ndisc_send_ns+0x347/0xb10 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:631
 addrconf_dad_work+0x9fa/0x1510 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4222
 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
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888129963f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888129963f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888129964000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff888129964080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888129964100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/14 12:37 android13-5.15-lts bf3c87ba3144 2130f682 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_session_register
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.