KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_info_nh_dev (2)

Status: closed as invalid on 2026/08/26 16:32
Subsystems: netfilter
Labels: prio:high
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First crash: 126d, last: 116d
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933647d8 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ✅ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_info_nh_dev (2) 2026/05/23 11:15 2026/05/23 11:15 2026/05/23 12:10 c69befb3
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_info_nh_dev netfilter 17 2 181d 184d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2026/04/30 15:35

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_info_nh_dev+0x37/0x310 include/net/nexthop.h:536
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888079d1b8d0 by task syz.4.15266/24634

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 24634 Comm: syz.4.15266 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 fib6_info_nh_dev+0x37/0x310 include/net/nexthop.h:536
 nft_fib6_info_nh_uses_dev+0xbc/0x150 net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c:174
 nft_fib6_eval+0x88e/0xba0 net/ipv6/netfilter/nft_fib_ipv6.c:231
 expr_call_ops_eval net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:237 [inline]
 nft_do_chain+0x48d/0x1ae0 net/netfilter/nf_tables_core.c:285
 nft_do_chain_inet+0x360/0x4b0 net/netfilter/nft_chain_filter.c:162
 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:158 [inline]
 nf_hook_slow+0xc5/0x220 net/netfilter/core.c:619
 nf_hook include/linux/netfilter.h:273 [inline]
 NF_HOOK+0x21f/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:316
 __netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6202 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6315 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb_internal net/core/dev.c:6401 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb+0x278/0xbf0 net/core/dev.c:6460
 tun_rx_batched+0x1de/0x790 drivers/net/tun.c:1518
 tun_get_user+0x2bbc/0x43e0 drivers/net/tun.c:1986
 tun_chr_write_iter+0x113/0x200 drivers/net/tun.c:2032
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x61d/0xb90 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa69c75d68e
Code: 08 0f 85 a5 a8 ff ff 49 89 fb 48 89 f0 48 89 d7 48 89 ce 4c 89 c2 4d 89 ca 4c 8b 44 24 08 4c 8b 4c 24 10 4c 89 5c 24 08 0f 05 <c3> 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 08
RSP: 002b:00007fa69d67afb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa69d67b6c0 RCX: 00007fa69c75d68e
RDX: 000000000000014a RSI: 0000200000000f00 RDI: 00000000000000c8
RBP: 00007fa69c832d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa69ca16038 R14: 00007fa69ca15fa0 R15: 00007fffd0f466b8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 23581:
 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]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x31c/0x660 mm/slub.c:5419
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 nexthop_alloc net/ipv4/nexthop.c:536 [inline]
 nexthop_create net/ipv4/nexthop.c:2942 [inline]
 nexthop_add net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3009 [inline]
 rtm_new_nexthop+0x28b4/0x84d0 net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3323
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7009
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2551
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x75c/0x8e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1895
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x972/0x9f0 net/socket.c:2698
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2752
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2784 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1bd/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2787
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888079d1b800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 8 bytes to the right of
 allocated 200-byte region [ffff888079d1b800, ffff888079d1b8c8)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888079d1be00 pfn:0x79d1a
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000240 ffff88813fe20b40 ffffea0001d97490 ffffea0002c8f290
raw: ffff888079d1be00 0000000800100009 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88813fe20b40 ffffea0001d97490 ffffea0002c8f290
head: ffff888079d1be00 0000000800100009 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000001 ffffffffffffff81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 16281, tgid 16281 (syz-executor), ts 426156642338, free_ts 426122752287
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1858
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1866 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24ba/0x2540 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5226
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x339/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7255
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x321/0x720 mm/slub.c:4651
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4749 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4883 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x392/0x660 mm/slub.c:5414
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 nsim_dev_psample_init+0x58/0x570 drivers/net/netdevsim/psample.c:203
 nsim_drv_probe+0x89d/0xc20 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:1723
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:709
 __driver_probe_device+0x1ef/0x380 drivers/base/dd.c:871
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:901
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1029
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1101
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1156
page last free pid 16430 tgid 16429 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1402 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc7/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 mm_free_pgd kernel/fork.c:587 [inline]
 __mmdrop+0xb5/0x750 kernel/fork.c:729
 exit_mm+0x1f6/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:582
 do_exit+0x6a2/0x22c0 kernel/exit.c:964
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1119
 get_signal+0x1284/0x1330 kernel/signal.c:3037
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x840 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x8c/0x4d0 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:238 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x33e/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888079d1b780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888079d1b800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff888079d1b880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                                 ^
 ffff888079d1b900: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888079d1b980: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/19 02:35 net-next 5a3a819389ad 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_info_nh_dev
2026/05/15 18:28 net-next 822d4a8e390a 9cd3beaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_info_nh_dev
2026/05/15 18:13 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 9cd3beaa .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_info_nh_dev
2026/05/09 10:48 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_info_nh_dev
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.