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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/15 20:15
Subsystems: hams
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Reported-by: syzbot+9cc08d5dcb1fc8feee76@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 241d, last: 6d14h
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[syzbot] Monthly hams report (Jan 2026) 0 (1) 2026/01/26 07:12
[syzbot] [hams?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame 0 (1) 2026/01/15 20:15
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in rose_send_frame (2) hams 2 7 1182d 1206d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame 24 3 6d02h 114d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/10/05 19:28

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rose_send_frame+0x266/0x2a0 net/rose/rose_link.c:106
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88804579ec18 by task kworker/u8:4/25795

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 25795 Comm: kworker/u8:4 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/13/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x156/0x4c9 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1a0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 rose_send_frame+0x266/0x2a0 net/rose/rose_link.c:106
 rose_transmit_restart_request+0x1b8/0x250 net/rose/rose_link.c:198
 rose_t0timer_expiry+0x1d/0x150 net/rose/rose_link.c:83
 call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x590 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x757/0xac0 kernel/time/timer.c:2373
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2385 [inline]
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2377 [inline]
 run_timer_base+0x114/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2394
 run_timer_softirq+0x1a/0x50 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
 handle_softirqs+0x1ea/0x910 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xef/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:lock_acquire+0x5e/0x330 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5872
Code: 05 7b 1c 01 12 83 f8 07 0f 87 a4 02 00 00 48 0f a3 05 06 12 d4 0e 0f 82 6f 02 00 00 8b 35 9e 42 d4 0e 85 f6 0f 85 8a 00 00 00 <48> 8b 44 24 30 65 48 2b 05 1d 1c 01 12 0f 85 b8 02 00 00 48 83 c4
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000d1375e8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8dc1ea15 RDI: ffffffff8bfa34a0
RBP: ffffffff8e5e3360 R08: 000000008e8414f1 R09: 0000000000000007
R10: 0000000000000200 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:331 [inline]
 rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:867 [inline]
 class_rcu_constructor include/linux/rcupdate.h:1195 [inline]
 unwind_next_frame+0xd1/0x1ea0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:495
 arch_stack_walk+0x94/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0x8e/0xc0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x143/0x720 mm/slub.c:6781
 kfree_skbmem+0x19a/0x210 net/core/skbuff.c:1130
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1197 [inline]
 sk_skb_reason_drop+0x10f/0x1b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1234
 kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1322 [inline]
 kfree_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1331 [inline]
 ieee80211_iface_work+0x46f/0x1350 net/mac80211/iface.c:1792
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x3f7/0x560 net/wireless/core.c:438
 process_one_work+0x9c2/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3257
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5da/0xe40 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x3b3/0x730 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x754/0xaf0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 27417:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 rose_add_node net/rose/rose_route.c:85 [inline]
 rose_rt_ioctl+0x586/0x2550 net/rose/rose_route.c:748
 rose_ioctl+0x491/0x7d0 net/rose/af_rose.c:1382
 sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1254
 sock_ioctl+0x599/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1375
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xc9/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 31087:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c7/0x690 mm/slub.c:6878
 rose_neigh_put include/net/rose.h:166 [inline]
 rose_timer_expiry+0x53f/0x630 net/rose/rose_timer.c:183
 call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x590 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x757/0xac0 kernel/time/timer.c:2373
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2385 [inline]
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2377 [inline]
 run_timer_base+0x114/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2394
 run_timer_softirq+0x1a/0x50 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
 handle_softirqs+0x1ea/0x910 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xef/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88804579ec00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 freed 512-byte region [ffff88804579ec00, ffff88804579ee00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x4579c
head: order:2 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe26c80 ffffea0000c98500 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe26c80 ffffea0000c98500 dead000000000002
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000002 ffffea000115e701 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000004
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x252800(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_THISNODE), pid 14701, tgid 14687 (iou-wrk-14696), ts 833133997259, free_ts 340403971783
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1e1/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1884
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1892 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xe3d/0x2e10 mm/page_alloc.c:3945
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x26c/0x2410 mm/page_alloc.c:5240
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3077 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3248 [inline]
 new_slab+0xaf/0x440 mm/slub.c:3302
 ___slab_alloc+0xda3/0x1ca0 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc.isra.0+0x63/0x110 mm/slub.c:4779
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x62b/0x9e0 mm/slub.c:5663
 kmalloc_array_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1075 [inline]
 alloc_slab_obj_exts+0x46/0x110 mm/slub.c:2123
 account_slab mm/slub.c:3202 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3267 [inline]
 new_slab+0x354/0x440 mm/slub.c:3302
 ___slab_alloc+0xda3/0x1ca0 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc.isra.0+0x63/0x110 mm/slub.c:4779
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x531/0x810 mm/slub.c:5771
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 io_add_buffers io_uring/kbuf.c:535 [inline]
 __io_manage_buffers_legacy io_uring/kbuf.c:577 [inline]
 io_manage_buffers_legacy+0x409/0xea0 io_uring/kbuf.c:590
 __io_issue_sqe+0xe8/0x7a0 io_uring/io_uring.c:1793
 io_issue_sqe+0x85/0x1430 io_uring/io_uring.c:1816
 io_wq_submit_work+0x347/0xee0 io_uring/io_uring.c:1928
page last free pid 9196 tgid 9195 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x822/0x1130 mm/page_alloc.c:2973
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x127/0x160 mm/slub.c:3886
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x300/0x9c0 mm/slub.c:5669
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
 sk_prot_alloc+0x10b/0x2a0 net/core/sock.c:2245
 sk_alloc+0x36/0xe80 net/core/sock.c:2301
 alg_create+0x9e/0x150 crypto/af_alg.c:517
 __sock_create+0x339/0x860 net/socket.c:1605
 sock_create net/socket.c:1663 [inline]
 __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1700 [inline]
 __sys_socket+0x14d/0x260 net/socket.c:1747
 __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1761 [inline]
 __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1759 [inline]
 __x64_sys_socket+0x72/0xb0 net/socket.c:1759
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xc9/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88804579eb00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88804579eb80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88804579ec00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff88804579ec80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88804579ed00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	05 7b 1c 01 12       	add    $0x12011c7b,%eax
   5:	83 f8 07             	cmp    $0x7,%eax
   8:	0f 87 a4 02 00 00    	ja     0x2b2
   e:	48 0f a3 05 06 12 d4 	bt     %rax,0xed41206(%rip)        # 0xed4121c
  15:	0e
  16:	0f 82 6f 02 00 00    	jb     0x28b
  1c:	8b 35 9e 42 d4 0e    	mov    0xed4429e(%rip),%esi        # 0xed442c0
  22:	85 f6                	test   %esi,%esi
  24:	0f 85 8a 00 00 00    	jne    0xb4
* 2a:	48 8b 44 24 30       	mov    0x30(%rsp),%rax <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	65 48 2b 05 1d 1c 01 	sub    %gs:0x12011c1d(%rip),%rax        # 0x12011c54
  36:	12
  37:	0f 85 b8 02 00 00    	jne    0x2f5
  3d:	48                   	rex.W
  3e:	83                   	.byte 0x83
  3f:	c4                   	.byte 0xc4

Crashes (24):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/21 15:13 upstream 6c790212c588 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/09/16 05:40 upstream 46a51f4f5eda e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/06/22 08:32 upstream 739a6c93cc75 d6cdfb8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/05/31 22:52 upstream 0f70f5b08a47 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/08/31 11:13 upstream c8bc81a52d5a 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/10/17 11:51 net 7f864458e9a6 7adf5298 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2025/08/08 05:38 net ae633388cae3 6a893178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in rose_send_frame
2026/01/05 02:37 upstream 54e82e93ca93 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/12/25 11:26 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/12/20 01:57 upstream dd9b004b7ff3 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/11/20 07:44 upstream 23cb64fb7625 26ee5237 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/10/25 14:34 upstream 566771afc7a8 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/10/24 10:38 upstream 266ee584e55e c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/10/21 18:29 upstream 6548d364a3e8 9832ed61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/10/18 17:40 upstream f406055cb18c 1c8c8cd8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/09/29 19:40 upstream e5f0a698b34e 86341da6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2026/01/17 00:27 upstream b62ce2547fe8 d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/11/26 08:51 upstream 30f09200cc4a 64219f15 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/09/22 13:05 upstream 07e27ad16399 770ff59f .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2026/01/06 03:21 net d96bfb686742 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2026/01/21 14:04 net-next d8f87aa5fa0a 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/11/23 02:55 net-next e05021a829b8 4fb8ef37 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/11/01 04:52 net-next 01cc760632b8 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
2025/09/30 14:33 net-next 9ebef94cf679 65a0eece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rose_send_frame
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.