KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_xmit_skb

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/08/28 15:04
Reported-by: syzbot+db44c88977f0549925ac@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d00h, last: 1d00h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_xmit_skb 19 2 61d 73d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/06/17 02:44

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_xmit_core net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1031 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_xmit_skb+0x47/0x17b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1137
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881100d8810 by task syz.8.522/2430

CPU: 0 PID: 2430 Comm: syz.8.522 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x1a7/0x208 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:435 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x100/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:309
 l2tp_xmit_core net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1031 [inline]
 l2tp_xmit_skb+0x47/0x17b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1137
 pppol2tp_sendmsg+0x33f/0x5d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:308
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5be/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2377
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2431
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x2ab/0x4c0 net/socket.c:2517
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2546 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2543 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2543
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f68163e5159
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:00007f6814e1d028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f681666d090 RCX: 00007f68163e5159
RDX: 04000000000001ce RSI: 0000200000005f80 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f681647c024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008040 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f681666d128 R14: 00007f681666d090 R15: 00007fff6ec51998

Allocated by task 2410:
 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:430 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:509 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x100 mm/kasan/common.c:518
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x19f/0x330 mm/slub.c:4038
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:560 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:667 [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:1867 [inline]
 __sys_connect+0x3ce/0x450 net/socket.c:1884
 __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1894 [inline]
 __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1891 [inline]
 __x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:1891
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Freed by task 2432:
 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:362
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:370
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:220 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1600 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc5/0x190 mm/slub.c:1626
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3208 [inline]
 kfree+0xc0/0x270 mm/slub.c:4196
 l2tp_session_free net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:168 [inline]
 l2tp_session_put+0xb2/0x1a0 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+0xda/0x380 net/socket.c:1068
 sock_ioctl+0x472/0x740 net/socket.c:1208
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:48 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:753 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x121/0x1a0 fs/ioctl.c:739
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x7b/0x90 fs/ioctl.c:739
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

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+0x117/0x670 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3539
 inet6_ifa_finish_destroy+0x129/0x1b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:1000
 in6_ifa_put include/net/addrconf.h:460 [inline]
 addrconf_ifdown+0x121c/0x1890 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3930
 addrconf_notify+0x3bd/0xea0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
 notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
 raw_notifier_call_chain+0x90/0x100 kernel/notifier.c:410
 call_netdevice_notifiers_info net/core/dev.c:2052 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2064 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2078 [inline]
 dev_close_many+0x328/0x4d0 net/core/dev.c:1653
 unregister_netdevice_many+0x477/0x19f0 net/core/dev.c:10755
 sit_exit_batch_net+0x615/0x660 net/ipv6/sit.c:1913
 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:190 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x5fe/0xb80 net/core/net_namespace.c:609
 process_one_work+0x6fd/0xbc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2301
 worker_thread+0xa8e/0x13c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2447
 kthread+0x324/0x3b0 kernel/kthread.c:313
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881100d8800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 512-byte region [ffff8881100d8800, ffff8881100d8a00)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0004403600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1100d8
head:ffffea0004403600 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 4000000000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 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 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 97, ts 5092994085, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:35 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:2456 [inline]
 prep_new_page+0x176/0x190 mm/page_alloc.c:2462
 get_page_from_freelist+0x225f/0x23f0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x29a/0x640 mm/page_alloc.c:5384
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1813 [inline]
 new_slab+0x84/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:1874
 new_slab_objects mm/slub.c:2632 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x2f8/0x4c0 mm/slub.c:2796
 __slab_alloc+0x63/0xa0 mm/slub.c:2836
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2918 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1e4/0x310 mm/slub.c:4541
 __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:144 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0xdc/0x520 net/core/skbuff.c:212
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xa3/0x560 net/core/skbuff.c:6045
 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x87f/0x9a0 net/core/sock.c:2392
 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x6f3/0x18f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1725
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x2a6/0x3a0 net/socket.c:1019
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2072 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:518 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x770/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:605
 ksys_write+0x14a/0x260 fs/read_write.c:658
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:670 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:667 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:667
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8881100d8700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8881100d8780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8881100d8800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff8881100d8880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8881100d8900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2430 at net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:156 pppol2tp_sock_to_session+0x167/0x1b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:156
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 2430 Comm: syz.8.522 Tainted: G    B             syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:pppol2tp_sock_to_session+0x167/0x1b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:156
Code: 5d c3 e8 2c 73 35 fd be 02 00 00 00 eb 0a e8 20 73 35 fd be 01 00 00 00 4c 89 f7 e8 53 dc 0e fe e9 0f ff ff ff e8 09 73 35 fd <0f> 0b 48 89 df e8 ef 00 00 00 eb bd e8 f8 72 35 fd 4c 89 f7 be 03
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000e9f898 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff842f41a7 RBX: ffff88810b1d5000 RCX: ffff888132514f00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000101e6600 RDI: 000000000c04eb7d
RBP: ffffc90000e9f8b8 R08: ffff88810b1d5083 R09: 1ffff1102163aa10
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed102163aa11 R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000101e6600 R15: ffff8881100d8800
FS:  00007f6814e1d6c0(0000) GS:ffff8881f7100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000400000 CR3: 000000011737f000 CR4: 00000000003506a0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 pppol2tp_sendmsg+0xda/0x5d0 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:271
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:652 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:664 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x5be/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2377
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2431
 __sys_sendmmsg+0x2ab/0x4c0 net/socket.c:2517
 __do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2546 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2543 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmmsg+0xa0/0xb0 net/socket.c:2543
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f68163e5159
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:00007f6814e1d028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f681666d090 RCX: 00007f68163e5159
RDX: 04000000000001ce RSI: 0000200000005f80 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f681647c024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008040 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f681666d128 R14: 00007f681666d090 R15: 00007fff6ec51998
---[ end trace c04b828cef2ab972 ]---

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/28 15:03 android13-5.10-lts 174d3ccb72b8 e2fa417d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_xmit_skb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.