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kernel BUG in pfkey_send_migrate

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/14 16:56
Subsystems: net
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Reported-by: syzbot+b518dfc8e021988fbd55@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: af_key: validate families in pfkey_send_migrate()
Patched on: [ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 7d09h, last: 41m
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Discussions (2)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH net] af_key: validate families in pfkey_send_migrate() 2 (2) 2026/03/17 10:42
[syzbot] [net?] kernel BUG in pfkey_send_migrate 0 (1) 2026/03/14 16:56
Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/03/14 16:45 28m edumazet@google.com patch net OK log

Sample crash report:
skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:ffffffff8a752120 len:392 put:16 head:ffff88802a4ad040 data:ffff88802a4ad040 tail:0x188 end:0x180 dev:<NULL>
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:214!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5984 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x157/0x160 net/core/skbuff.c:214
Code: c7 60 24 dc 8c 48 8b 74 24 08 48 8b 54 24 10 8b 0c 24 44 8b 44 24 04 4d 89 e9 50 55 41 57 41 56 e8 0e 55 f5 ff 48 83 c4 20 90 <0f> 0b cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a06bc0 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000088 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: efbd12c4feea6d00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000180 R08: ffffc90003a06927 R09: 1ffff92000740d24
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000740d25 R12: ffff8880312a6510
R13: ffff88802a4ad040 R14: ffff88802a4ad040 R15: 0000000000000188
FS:  000055555b534500(0000) GS:ffff888125461000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fbef80720c0 CR3: 000000007ae2a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 skb_over_panic net/core/skbuff.c:219 [inline]
 skb_put+0x159/0x210 net/core/skbuff.c:2655
 skb_put_zero include/linux/skbuff.h:2788 [inline]
 set_ipsecrequest net/key/af_key.c:3532 [inline]
 pfkey_send_migrate+0x1270/0x2e50 net/key/af_key.c:3636
 km_migrate+0x155/0x260 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:2848
 xfrm_migrate+0x2140/0x2450 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:4705
 xfrm_do_migrate+0x8ff/0xaa0 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3150
 xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x746/0xb20 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3507
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x79/0x90 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c:3529
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x972/0x9f0 net/socket.c:2592
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2646
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2678 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2683 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2681 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2681
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fbef819c799
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:00007ffe28231e98 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fbef8415fa0 RCX: 00007fbef819c799
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000380 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fbef8232c99 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fbef8415fac R14: 00007fbef8415fa0 R15: 00007fbef8415fa0
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:skb_panic+0x157/0x160 net/core/skbuff.c:214
Code: c7 60 24 dc 8c 48 8b 74 24 08 48 8b 54 24 10 8b 0c 24 44 8b 44 24 04 4d 89 e9 50 55 41 57 41 56 e8 0e 55 f5 ff 48 83 c4 20 90 <0f> 0b cc cc cc cc cc cc cc 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a06bc0 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000088 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: efbd12c4feea6d00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000180 R08: ffffc90003a06927 R09: 1ffff92000740d24
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000740d25 R12: ffff8880312a6510
R13: ffff88802a4ad040 R14: ffff88802a4ad040 R15: 0000000000000188
FS:  000055555b534500(0000) GS:ffff888125461000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fbef80720c0 CR3: 000000007ae2a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/14 05:49 net 99600f79b28c ee8d34d6 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce kernel BUG in pfkey_send_migrate
2026/03/21 14:33 net-next 64cf4b95de07 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce kernel BUG in pfkey_send_migrate
2026/03/15 19:13 net-next 5446b8691eb8 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce kernel BUG in pfkey_send_migrate
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.