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KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown (4)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/12/18 09:02
Reported-by: syzbot+6dd34c5dc2feaf2b7927@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 114d, last: 4d00h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown 19 3 571d 576d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/26 22:56
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown (2) 19 2 451d 451d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/25 22:07
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown (3) 19 2 320d 333d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/03 15:39

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_waiter_is_first kernel/locking/mutex.c:191 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_lock_common+0xd0f/0x2400 kernel/locking/mutex.c:671
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888062ee0160 by task init/25978

CPU: 1 PID: 25978 Comm: init Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 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
 __mutex_waiter_is_first kernel/locking/mutex.c:191 [inline]
 __mutex_lock_common+0xd0f/0x2400 kernel/locking/mutex.c:671
 __mutex_lock kernel/locking/mutex.c:729 [inline]
 mutex_lock_nested+0x17/0x20 kernel/locking/mutex.c:743
 device_lock include/linux/device.h:764 [inline]
 device_shutdown+0x1e2/0x5e0 drivers/base/core.c:4548
 kernel_shutdown_prepare kernel/reboot.c:266 [inline]
 kernel_power_off+0x4f/0xb0 kernel/reboot.c:291
 __do_sys_reboot kernel/reboot.c:366 [inline]
 __se_sys_reboot+0x40d/0x430 kernel/reboot.c:312
 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: 0033:0x7f2b71cc18d3
Code: ff 45 31 c9 6a 13 45 31 c0 31 c9 e8 67 8b f8 ff 48 83 c4 18 c3 66 90 89 fa be 69 19 12 28 bf ad de e1 fe b8 a9 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 05 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 8b 15 f1 24 0d 00 f7 d8
RSP: 002b:00007ffe020c4568 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a9
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007f2b71cc18d3
RDX: 000000004321fedc RSI: 0000000028121969 RDI: 00000000fee1dead
RBP: 000000004321fedc R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00007ffe020c4540 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f2b71e64490
R13: 00007ffe020c45bc R14: 00007f2b71e9c000 R15: 000055f89f5e9d98
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 19417:
 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:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 nsim_bus_dev_new drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c:408 [inline]
 new_device_store+0x1a4/0x760 drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c:302
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x379/0x4c0 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2173 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x745/0xd60 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x152/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 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 25836:
 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
 nsim_bus_dev_del drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c:457 [inline]
 del_device_store+0x2e9/0x3a0 drivers/net/netdevsim/bus.c:354
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x379/0x4c0 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2173 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x745/0xd60 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x152/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 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 ffff888062ee0000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 352 bytes inside of
 2048-byte region [ffff888062ee0000, ffff888062ee0800)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00018bb800 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x62ee0
head:ffffea00018bb800 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888016c42000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4193, ts 69586173610, free_ts 23206246643
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1bbd/0x1ca0 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 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+0x80a/0xdd0 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_track_caller+0x1cb/0x330 mm/slub.c:4930
 kmemdup+0x22/0x50 mm/util.c:128
 neigh_sysctl_register+0xaa/0xa90 net/core/neighbour.c:3652
 addrconf_sysctl_register+0xac/0x1b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7146
 ipv6_add_dev+0xbf3/0x1190 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:454
 addrconf_notify+0x66f/0xf00 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3576
 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:2074 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2088 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x12a6/0x1710 net/core/dev.c:10454
 tun_set_iff+0x82a/0xda0 drivers/net/tun.c:2802
 __tun_chr_ioctl+0x773/0x1ec0 drivers/net/tun.c:3062
 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
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+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_contig_range+0x96/0xf0 mm/page_alloc.c:9428
 destroy_args+0xf0/0xa00 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1018
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x321/0x380 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1336
 do_one_initcall+0x272/0x730 init/main.c:1316
 do_initcall_level+0x137/0x1f0 init/main.c:1389
 do_initcalls+0x4b/0x90 init/main.c:1405
 kernel_init_freeable+0x3e9/0x570 init/main.c:1629
 kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1520
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888062ee0000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888062ee0080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888062ee0100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                       ^
 ffff888062ee0180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888062ee0200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/08 02:32 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 2c961e87 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
2026/04/07 00:01 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
2026/04/04 08:08 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
2026/04/01 19:02 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b 9a1f7828 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
2026/03/30 08:07 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b b5ceaad2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
2026/03/29 01:08 linux-5.15.y 91d48252ad4b b5ceaad2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
2026/01/14 02:01 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
2026/01/10 05:00 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
2025/12/18 09:02 linux-5.15.y 68efe5a6c16a d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf KASAN: use-after-free Read in device_shutdown
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.