KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/18 08:10
Bug presence: origin:upstream
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Reported-by: syzbot+e3dee1abcf5ec280b00f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 338d, last: 65d
Fix bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2025/11/02 upstream (ToT) 691d401c7e0e C [report] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/08/14 upstream (ToT) 2f1baf1fc892 C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm bluetooth 19 syz inconclusive 36 534d 613d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/03/07 00:26
upstream KASAN: wild-memory-access Read in l2cap_connect_cfm prio:high bluetooth 19 syz, C error inconclusive 345 54d 523d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/03/17 15:57
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm (2) origin:lts-only 19 syz, C error 17 65d 332d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/09/24 14:26
linux-6.1 KASAN: wild-memory-access Read in l2cap_connect_cfm 19 7 85d 324d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/10/02 10:15
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm 19 3 464d 562d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/23 07:27
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm 19 6 450d 672d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/05 21:35
Fix bisection attempts (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/23 05:06 14m bisect fix linux-6.6.y error job log
2025/12/09 06:20 3h14m bisect fix linux-6.6.y OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
 </TASK>
kobject: kobject_add_internal failed for hci2:201 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
Bluetooth: hci2: failed to register connection device
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_conn_ready net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1624 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in l2cap_connect_cfm+0x6df/0x1070 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7350
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805fe3d480 by task kworker/u5:5/5789

CPU: 1 PID: 5789 Comm: kworker/u5:5 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: hci2 hci_rx_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 l2cap_conn_ready net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1624 [inline]
 l2cap_connect_cfm+0x6df/0x1070 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7350
 hci_connect_cfm+0x8f/0x130 include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:1999
 le_conn_complete_evt+0xfdc/0x1540 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5793
 hci_le_conn_complete_evt+0x187/0x440 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5819
 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7491 [inline]
 hci_event_packet+0x7ba/0x1270 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7546
 hci_rx_work+0x43a/0xd60 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4018
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5789:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 l2cap_chan_create+0x50/0x760 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:445
 l2cap_sock_alloc net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1946 [inline]
 l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb+0x191/0x2b0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1516
 l2cap_connect_cfm+0x375/0x1070 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7333
 hci_connect_cfm+0x8f/0x130 include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:1999
 le_conn_complete_evt+0xfdc/0x1540 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5793
 hci_le_conn_complete_evt+0x187/0x440 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:5819
 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7491 [inline]
 hci_event_packet+0x7ba/0x1270 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7546
 hci_rx_work+0x43a/0xd60 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4018
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2653 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2730
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2811
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Freed by task 6118:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:3843
 l2cap_sock_destruct+0x97/0x280 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1831
 __sk_destruct+0x83/0x660 net/core/sock.c:2196
 sock_put include/net/sock.h:2059 [inline]
 l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen+0x1d9/0x520 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:-1
 l2cap_sock_release+0x6a/0x1e0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1422
 __sock_release net/socket.c:659 [inline]
 sock_close+0xbd/0x230 net/socket.c:1420
 __fput+0x234/0x970 fs/file_table.c:384
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:245
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe6/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:177
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805fe3d000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1152 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff88805fe3d000, ffff88805fe3d800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00017f8e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5fe38
head:ffffea00017f8e00 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017c42000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 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 0xd28c0(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5779, tgid 5779 (syz-executor), ts 83262792722, free_ts 28158200973
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1581
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1588 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1951/0x19e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3220
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4500
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5d/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x19e/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xa2/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1027
 kmalloc_reserve+0x116/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:584
 pskb_expand_head+0x180/0x1190 net/core/skbuff.c:2101
 netlink_trim+0x180/0x220 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1301
 netlink_broadcast_filtered+0x80/0x1110 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1515
 netlink_broadcast net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1560 [inline]
 nlmsg_multicast include/net/netlink.h:1090 [inline]
 nlmsg_notify+0xf0/0x1a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2588
 register_netdevice+0x17b8/0x1bb0 net/core/dev.c:10365
 __ip_tunnel_create+0x3bc/0x4d0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:267
 ip_tunnel_init_net+0x2df/0x790 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:1104
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1181 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7b2/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2365
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2458
 free_contig_range+0xa1/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:6420
 destroy_args+0x80/0x850 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1015
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x411/0x440 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1400
 do_one_initcall+0x242/0x790 init/main.c:1249
 do_initcall_level+0x137/0x1f0 init/main.c:1311
 do_initcalls+0x69/0xd0 init/main.c:1327
 kernel_init_freeable+0x3ed/0x580 init/main.c:1564
 kernel_init+0x1d/0x1c0 init/main.c:1454
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805fe3d380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805fe3d400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88805fe3d480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff88805fe3d500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805fe3d580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (23):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/18 01:44 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/06/11 05:15 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb b754d2d8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/06/10 14:42 linux-6.6.y 924b4a879cbb f79bac11 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/05/29 16:03 linux-6.6.y 0a40c6fbd105 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/05/17 00:25 linux-6.6.y 4d922539ad7d de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/05/07 15:43 linux-6.6.y 258cf62a6dfd cbf9e0fc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/05/02 20:04 linux-6.6.y 258cf62a6dfd a0d91488 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/03/24 04:46 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 baf8bf12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/03/21 16:01 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/03/18 19:34 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 0199f9a1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/03/06 20:25 linux-6.6.y 4fc00fe35d46 41d8037d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/02/17 17:58 linux-6.6.y 56865d9b7074 06ec4f7b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/02/04 00:57 linux-6.6.y 2cf6f68313dc 42b01fab .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/01/25 03:14 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 40acda8a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/01/21 11:09 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2026/01/03 16:51 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2025/11/07 13:55 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2025/11/01 19:35 linux-6.6.y e5bbb12db2c7 2c50b6a9 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2025/11/01 17:23 linux-6.6.y e5bbb12db2c7 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2025/10/23 19:41 linux-6.6.y 4a243110dc88 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2025/09/18 09:38 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2025/09/18 08:10 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
2025/10/30 22:20 linux-6.6.y e5bbb12db2c7 2c50b6a9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: wild-memory-access Read in l2cap_connect_cfm
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.