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

Status: closed as invalid on 2026/01/09 17:04
Subsystems: rds
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First crash: 108d, last: 108d

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in refcount_read include/linux/refcount.h:170 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in check_net include/net/net_namespace.h:304 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rds_destroy_pending net/rds/rds.h:950 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rds_queue_reconnect+0x51d/0x9c0 net/rds/threads.c:142
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880126e4a74 by task kworker/u32:8/1162

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1162 Comm: kworker/u32:8 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: krdsd rds_shutdown_worker
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:194 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x100/0x1b0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:68 [inline]
 atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:32 [inline]
 refcount_read include/linux/refcount.h:170 [inline]
 check_net include/net/net_namespace.h:304 [inline]
 rds_destroy_pending net/rds/rds.h:950 [inline]
 rds_queue_reconnect+0x51d/0x9c0 net/rds/threads.c:142
 rds_conn_shutdown+0x455/0xaa0 net/rds/connection.c:433
 process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3263
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3346 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x675/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 14386:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:342 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:368
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4955 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5265 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x250/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:5272
 net_alloc net/core/net_namespace.c:489 [inline]
 copy_net_ns+0xe9/0x690 net/core/net_namespace.c:564
 create_new_namespaces+0x3ea/0xa90 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xc0/0x1f0 kernel/nsproxy.c:218
 ksys_unshare+0x45b/0xa40 kernel/fork.c:3129
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3200 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3198 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x31/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3198
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 13041:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:587
 kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline]
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2523 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6611 [inline]
 kmem_cache_free+0x2d4/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6721
 net_complete_free net/core/net_namespace.c:525 [inline]
 cleanup_net+0x49c/0x8b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:704
 process_one_work+0x9cf/0x1b70 kernel/workqueue.c:3263
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3346 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x6c8/0xf10 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
 kthread+0x3c5/0x780 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x675/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xa7/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:559
 insert_work+0x36/0x230 kernel/workqueue.c:2186
 __queue_work+0x97e/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2341
 call_timer_fn+0x19a/0x620 kernel/time/timer.c:1747
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1793 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x569/0x960 kernel/time/timer.c:2372
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2384 [inline]
 __run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2376 [inline]
 run_timer_base+0x114/0x190 kernel/time/timer.c:2393
 run_timer_softirq+0x24/0x40 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
 handle_softirqs+0x219/0x8e0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x109/0x170 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697

Second to last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xa7/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:559
 insert_work+0x36/0x230 kernel/workqueue.c:2186
 __queue_work+0x97e/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2341
 __queue_delayed_work+0x35b/0x460 kernel/workqueue.c:2509
 queue_delayed_work_on+0x1b5/0x200 kernel/workqueue.c:2561
 queue_delayed_work include/linux/workqueue.h:684 [inline]
 __inet_insert_ifa+0x8fb/0xcd0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:560
 inet_rtm_newaddr+0xd87/0x1540 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1001
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6954
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x158/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x5aa/0x870 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8c8/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:742 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa98/0xc70 net/socket.c:2630
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2684
 __sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x220 net/socket.c:2716
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880126e4900
 which belongs to the cache net_namespace of size 9088
The buggy address is located 372 bytes inside of
 freed 9088-byte region [ffff8880126e4900, ffff8880126e6c80)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8880126e4900 pfn:0x126e0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff88803536bd41
ksm flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff8881000d7a40 ffffea0001734600 0000000000000003
raw: ffff8880126e4900 0000000000030001 00000000f5000000 ffff88803536bd41
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff8881000d7a40 ffffea0001734600 0000000000000003
head: ffff8880126e4900 0000000000030001 00000000f5000000 ffff88803536bd41
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea000049b801 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
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 13659, tgid 13658 (syz.3.2214), ts 393008366669, free_ts 392735574967
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c0/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x10a3/0x3a30 mm/page_alloc.c:3884
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x25f/0x2470 mm/page_alloc.c:5183
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x1fb/0x550 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3039 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3212 [inline]
 new_slab+0x24a/0x360 mm/slub.c:3266
 ___slab_alloc+0xdc4/0x1ae0 mm/slub.c:4636
 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x63/0x110 mm/slub.c:4755
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4831 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5253 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x43f/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:5272
 net_alloc net/core/net_namespace.c:489 [inline]
 copy_net_ns+0xe9/0x690 net/core/net_namespace.c:564
 create_new_namespaces+0x3ea/0xa90 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0xc0/0x1f0 kernel/nsproxy.c:218
 ksys_unshare+0x45b/0xa40 kernel/fork.c:3129
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3200 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3198 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x31/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3198
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 13647 tgid 13647 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1394 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x7df/0x1160 mm/page_alloc.c:2906
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3310 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x130/0x170 mm/slub.c:3857
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x4d/0x120 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x195/0x1e0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:352
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4955 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5265 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x250/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:5272
 ptlock_alloc+0x1f/0x70 mm/memory.c:7284
 ptlock_init include/linux/mm.h:3052 [inline]
 pagetable_pte_ctor include/linux/mm.h:3106 [inline]
 __pte_alloc_one_noprof include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h:78 [inline]
 pte_alloc_one+0x84/0x350 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:18
 __do_fault+0x320/0x490 mm/memory.c:5275
 do_shared_fault mm/memory.c:5762 [inline]
 do_fault mm/memory.c:5836 [inline]
 do_pte_missing+0x1a6/0x3ba0 mm/memory.c:4361
 handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6177 [inline]
 __handle_mm_fault+0x1556/0x2aa0 mm/memory.c:6318
 handle_mm_fault+0x589/0xd10 mm/memory.c:6487
 do_user_addr_fault+0x60c/0x1370 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1336
 handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1476 [inline]
 exc_page_fault+0x64/0xc0 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1532
 asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880126e4900: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880126e4980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880126e4a00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                             ^
 ffff8880126e4a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880126e4b00: 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
2025/10/16 15:35 upstream 7ea30958b305 19568248 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in rds_queue_reconnect
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.