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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ipvlan_hard_header (3)

Status: closed as invalid on 2026/04/08 13:13
Subsystems: net
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First crash: 55d, last: 55d
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88802a81-3264-4b75-bec5-57f7616df294 repro KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ipvlan_hard_header (3) 2026/03/07 09:43 2026/03/07 09:43 2026/03/07 10:03 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ipvlan_hard_header net 19 1 552d 552d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/01/15 12:30
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ipvlan_hard_header (2) net 19 4 138d 221d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2026/01/15 20:47
upstream general protection fault in ipvlan_hard_header (2) net 2 1 1069d 1069d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2023/09/01 06:55
upstream general protection fault in ipvlan_hard_header net 2 C done error 13 1658d 2245d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2022/10/12 18:15
linux-4.19 general protection fault in ipvlan_hard_header 2 1 1682d 1682d 0/1 auto-closed as invalid on 2022/01/05 12:41

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3436 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ipvlan_hard_header+0xa2/0x120 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:385
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888056ad6010 by task dhcpcd-run-hook/10782

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 10782 Comm: dhcpcd-run-hook Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3436 [inline]
 ipvlan_hard_header+0xa2/0x120 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c:385
 dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3439 [inline]
 tipc_l2_send_msg+0x31f/0x400 net/tipc/bearer.c:514
 tipc_bearer_xmit_skb+0x2b3/0x400 net/tipc/bearer.c:575
 tipc_disc_timeout+0x595/0x6f0 net/tipc/discover.c:338
 call_timer_fn+0x192/0x640 kernel/time/timer.c:1748
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1799 [inline]
 __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2373 [inline]
 __run_timer_base+0x652/0x8b0 kernel/time/timer.c:2385
 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2394 [inline]
 run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x170 kernel/time/timer.c:2404
 handle_softirqs+0x22a/0x870 kernel/softirq.c:622
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:656 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:496 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x5f/0x150 kernel/softirq.c:723
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:739
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1056
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:697
RIP: 0010:csd_lock_wait kernel/smp.c:342 [inline]
RIP: 0010:smp_call_function_many_cond+0xce5/0x12c0 kernel/smp.c:877
Code: 45 8b 2c 24 44 89 ee 83 e6 01 31 ff e8 24 e3 0b 00 41 83 e5 01 49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 75 07 e8 cf de 0b 00 eb 38 f3 90 <42> 0f b6 04 2b 84 c0 75 11 41 f7 04 24 01 00 00 00 74 1e e8 b3 de
RSP: 0018:ffffc900025a72a0 EFLAGS: 00000293
RAX: ffffffff81b9addd RBX: 1ffff110170e812d RCX: ffff88801ef9dac0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffffc900025a73e0 R08: ffffffff901172b7 R09: 1ffffffff2022e56
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff2022e57 R12: ffff8880b8740968
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b863bf80 R15: 0000000000000001
 on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x3f/0x80 kernel/smp.c:1043
 __flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:57 [inline]
 flush_tlb_multi arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1382 [inline]
 flush_tlb_mm_range+0x5c3/0x10c0 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c:1472
 tlb_flush arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h:23 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly include/asm-generic/tlb.h:505 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu+0x1af/0xa30 mm/mmu_gather.c:404
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xf9/0x230 mm/mmu_gather.c:530
 free_ldt_pgtables+0x19d/0x350 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:411
 arch_exit_mmap arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h:232 [inline]
 exit_mmap+0x1af/0xa10 mm/mmap.c:1287
 __mmput+0x118/0x430 kernel/fork.c:1174
 exec_mmap+0x3b4/0x440 fs/exec.c:893
 begin_new_exec+0x134a/0x24a0 fs/exec.c:1148
 load_elf_binary+0xa47/0x2980 fs/binfmt_elf.c:1010
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1664 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1696 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0x93d/0x1460 fs/exec.c:1748
 do_execveat_common+0x50d/0x690 fs/exec.c:1846
 __do_sys_execve fs/exec.c:1930 [inline]
 __se_sys_execve fs/exec.c:1924 [inline]
 __x64_sys_execve+0x97/0xc0 fs/exec.c:1924
 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: 0033:0x7f42b9af6107
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0x7f42b9af60dd.
RSP: 002b:00007ffca2f1dd18 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000003b
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000559cd80f3030 RCX: 00007f42b9af6107
RDX: 0000559cd80f3050 RSI: 0000559cd80f3030 RDI: 0000559cd80f30d8
RBP: 0000559cd80f30d8 R08: 00007ffca2f1feb6 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000008 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000559cd80f3050
R13: 00007f42b9cbbe8b R14: 0000559cd80f3050 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5824:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5219 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x528/0x8a0 mm/slub.c:6711
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0xa6/0x11b0 net/core/dev.c:12019
 rtnl_create_link+0x31f/0xd70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3648
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x277/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3830
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3957 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1666/0x1be0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4072
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 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_sendto+0x709/0x7a0 net/socket.c:2206
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2213 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2209 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2209
 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

Freed by task 10761:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2687 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6124 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c1/0x630 mm/slub.c:6442
 device_release+0x9e/0x1d0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x228/0x560 lib/kobject.c:737
 netdev_run_todo+0xc75/0xde0 net/core/dev.c:11720
 rtnl_unlock net/core/rtnetlink.c:157 [inline]
 rtnl_net_unlock include/linux/rtnetlink.h:135 [inline]
 rtnl_dellink+0x6a7/0x820 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3578
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 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+0xa68/0xad0 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888056ad6000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff888056ad6000, ffff888056ad7000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x56ad0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe00500 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe00500 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea00015ab401 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 0xd60c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5824, tgid 5824 (syz-executor), ts 87302067245, free_ts 25805370138
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24dc/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3255 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3444
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3502 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x331/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7134
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2b9/0x620 mm/slub.c:4578
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4681 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4815 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5218 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x657/0x8a0 mm/slub.c:6711
 alloc_netdev_mqs+0xa6/0x11b0 net/core/dev.c:12019
 rtnl_create_link+0x31f/0xd70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3648
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x277/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3830
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3957 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1666/0x1be0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4072
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 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_sendto+0x709/0x7a0 net/socket.c:2206
page last free pid 1 tgid 1 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc2b/0xdb0 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
 __free_pages mm/page_alloc.c:5369 [inline]
 free_contig_range+0xbb/0x170 mm/page_alloc.c:7373
 destroy_args+0x4e5/0x570 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:993
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x3f8/0x410 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1368
 do_one_initcall+0x250/0x8d0 init/main.c:1382
 do_initcall_level+0x104/0x190 init/main.c:1444
 do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0 init/main.c:1460
 kernel_init_freeable+0x2a6/0x3e0 init/main.c:1692
 kernel_init+0x1d/0x1d0 init/main.c:1582
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888056ad5f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888056ad5f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888056ad6000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff888056ad6080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888056ad6100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	45 8b 2c 24          	mov    (%r12),%r13d
   4:	44 89 ee             	mov    %r13d,%esi
   7:	83 e6 01             	and    $0x1,%esi
   a:	31 ff                	xor    %edi,%edi
   c:	e8 24 e3 0b 00       	call   0xbe335
  11:	41 83 e5 01          	and    $0x1,%r13d
  15:	49 bd 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%r13
  1c:	fc ff df
  1f:	75 07                	jne    0x28
  21:	e8 cf de 0b 00       	call   0xbdef5
  26:	eb 38                	jmp    0x60
  28:	f3 90                	pause
* 2a:	42 0f b6 04 2b       	movzbl (%rbx,%r13,1),%eax <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  31:	75 11                	jne    0x44
  33:	41 f7 04 24 01 00 00 	testl  $0x1,(%r12)
  3a:	00
  3b:	74 1e                	je     0x5b
  3d:	e8                   	.byte 0xe8
  3e:	b3 de                	mov    $0xde,%bl

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/20 14:06 net-next 8bf22c33e7a1 17d780d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ipvlan_hard_header
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.