KASAN: use-after-free Read in tipc_skb_dump

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/08/18 21:06
Reported-by: syzbot+c9f33326ada856f4b681@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d14h, last: 5d14h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-12 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in tipc_skb_dump 19 1 17d 17d 0/1 premoderation: reported on 2026/08/06 18:51

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in msg_word net/tipc/msg.h:207 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in msg_bits net/tipc/msg.h:217 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in msg_hdr_sz net/tipc/msg.h:267 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in msg_short net/tipc/msg.h:634 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in msg_orignode net/tipc/msg.h:639 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tipc_skb_dump+0x10ff/0x1780 net/tipc/trace.c:73
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888106b93908 by task syz.5.769/2583

CPU: 1 PID: 2583 Comm: syz.5.769 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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
 msg_word net/tipc/msg.h:207 [inline]
 msg_bits net/tipc/msg.h:217 [inline]
 msg_hdr_sz net/tipc/msg.h:267 [inline]
 msg_short net/tipc/msg.h:634 [inline]
 msg_orignode net/tipc/msg.h:639 [inline]
 tipc_skb_dump+0x10ff/0x1780 net/tipc/trace.c:73
 tipc_list_dump+0x22b/0x2f0 net/tipc/trace.c:187
 tipc_sk_dump+0xa12/0xfb0 net/tipc/socket.c:4005
 trace_event_raw_event_tipc_sk_class+0x283/0x4e0 net/tipc/trace.h:205
 trace_tipc_sk_overlimit1 net/tipc/trace.h:241 [inline]
 tipc_sk_enqueue net/tipc/socket.c:2457 [inline]
 tipc_sk_rcv+0x16b0/0x2ca0 net/tipc/socket.c:2499
 tipc_sk_mcast_rcv+0xe13/0xf00 net/tipc/socket.c:1268
 tipc_mcast_xmit+0x1140/0x1780 net/tipc/bcast.c:424
 tipc_send_group_bcast+0x79e/0xa90 net/tipc/socket.c:1133
 __tipc_sendmsg+0x336/0x2860 net/tipc/socket.c:1436
 tipc_sendmsg+0x55/0x70 net/tipc/socket.c:1403
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5be/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2436
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2490
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x2ba/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2576
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2605 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2602 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2602
 x64_sys_call+0x6c6/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308
 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: 0033:0x7f26b22ca0d9
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:00007f26b0d23028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f26b2551fa0 RCX: 00007f26b22ca0d9
RDX: 0400000000000181 RSI: 00002000000030c0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f26b2361024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 9200000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f26b2552038 R14: 00007f26b2551fa0 R15: 00007ffff3e1adc8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 2583:
 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_track_caller+0x13c/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4959
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:357 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x210/0x730 net/core/skbuff.c:428
 __pskb_copy_fclone+0xa7/0xf80 net/core/skbuff.c:1658
 __pskb_copy include/linux/skbuff.h:1247 [inline]
 tipc_sk_mcast_rcv+0x5e9/0xf00 net/tipc/socket.c:1249
 tipc_mcast_xmit+0x1140/0x1780 net/tipc/bcast.c:424
 tipc_send_group_bcast+0x79e/0xa90 net/tipc/socket.c:1133
 __tipc_sendmsg+0x336/0x2860 net/tipc/socket.c:1436
 tipc_sendmsg+0x55/0x70 net/tipc/socket.c:1403
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5be/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2436
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2490
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x2ba/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2576
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2605 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2602 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2602
 x64_sys_call+0x6c6/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:308
 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 2582:
 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
 skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:656 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x7bd/0xa20 net/core/skbuff.c:678
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:743 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:757 [inline]
 kfree_skb_reason net/core/skbuff.c:778 [inline]
 kfree_skb+0xb9/0x2f0 net/core/skbuff.c:792
 tipc_msg_reverse+0x185/0x8f0 net/tipc/msg.c:684
 tipc_sk_respond+0x135/0x410 net/tipc/socket.c:292
 tsk_rej_rx_queue net/tipc/socket.c:313 [inline]
 __tipc_shutdown+0x99f/0x14b0 net/tipc/socket.c:577
 tipc_release+0xca/0x1610 net/tipc/socket.c:642
 __sock_release net/socket.c:649 [inline]
 sock_close+0xb8/0x200 net/socket.c:1336
 __fput+0x22b/0x900 fs/file_table.c:311
 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:339
 task_work_run+0x127/0x190 kernel/task_work.c:188
 tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xd0/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:181
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x87/0xd0 kernel/entry/common.c:214
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:307
 do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
 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
 unregister_sysctl_table+0x7a/0x120 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1725
 unregister_net_sysctl_table+0x15/0x20 net/sysctl_net.c:175
 neigh_sysctl_unregister+0x78/0x90 net/core/neighbour.c:3737
 devinet_sysctl_unregister net/ipv4/devinet.c:2656 [inline]
 inetdev_destroy net/ipv4/devinet.c:327 [inline]
 inetdev_event+0x7df/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
 ip6_tnl_exit_batch_net+0x3eb/0x440 net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c:2313
 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 ffff888106b93800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 264 bytes inside of
 1024-byte region [ffff888106b93800, ffff888106b93c00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00041ae400 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x106b90
head:ffffea00041ae400 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 ffffea000483bc00 0000000c00000002 ffff888100043080
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 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 290, ts 23891405971, free_ts 23891274435
 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]
 alloc_uevent_skb+0x85/0x240 lib/kobject_uevent.c:290
 uevent_net_broadcast_tagged lib/kobject_uevent.c:351 [inline]
 kobject_uevent_net_broadcast+0x1a6/0x5a0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:412
 kobject_uevent_env+0x52b/0x700 lib/kobject_uevent.c:608
 kobject_uevent+0x1d/0x30 lib/kobject_uevent.c:657
 netdev_queue_add_kobject net/core/net-sysfs.c:1677 [inline]
 netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x1c9/0x3e0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:1711
 register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:1772 [inline]
 netdev_register_kobject+0x281/0x330 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2018
 register_netdevice+0xeaa/0x1490 net/core/dev.c:10431
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1474 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1546 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x5fa/0x600 mm/page_alloc.c:3536
 free_unref_page+0xae/0x540 mm/page_alloc.c:3618
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:805 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x6c/0x100 mm/page_alloc.c:5900
 __free_slab+0xe5/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:2025
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2040 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2046 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x15a/0x190 mm/slub.c:2532
 put_cpu_partial+0xc6/0x120 mm/slub.c:2612
 __slab_free+0x1d4/0x290 mm/slub.c:3395
 do_slab_free mm/slub.c:3514 [inline]
 ___cache_free+0x104/0x120 mm/slub.c:3535
 qlink_free+0x4d/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:157
 qlist_free_all+0x5f/0xb0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x14a/0x170 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:443
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:217 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4f/0x2b0 mm/slab.h:550
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3245 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3255 [inline]
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x11f/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4954
 kvasprintf+0xe3/0x1a0 lib/kasprintf.c:25
 kvasprintf_const+0xf2/0x240 lib/kasprintf.c:49

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888106b93800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888106b93880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888106b93900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff888106b93980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888106b93a00: 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
2026/08/18 21:06 android13-5.15-lts a825653ab7af 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tipc_skb_dump
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.