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

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/10/07 02:36
Subsystems: bluetooth
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+f20755f37da70df33a16@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d20h, last: 4d20h
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ba331884 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in mesh_send_sync 2026/10/03 02:28 2026/10/03 02:28 2026/10/03 03:52 57bbd979
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[syzbot] [bluetooth?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in mesh_send_sync 0 (1) 2026/10/07 02:36

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mesh_send_sync+0x3de/0x440 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:2338
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88804e2ea83b by task kworker/u34:4/5875

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5875 Comm: kworker/u34:4 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: hci0 hci_cmd_sync_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 mesh_send_sync+0x3de/0x440 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:2338
 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x1b6/0x4c0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:336
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6185:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:409 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:426
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2f8/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5563
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 mgmt_mesh_add+0x54/0x410 net/bluetooth/mgmt_util.c:413
 mesh_send+0x2b4/0x770 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:2531
 hci_mgmt_cmd net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1730 [inline]
 hci_sock_sendmsg+0x1574/0x26a0 net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c:1850
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:800 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x48b/0x4e0 net/socket.c:2281
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2288 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2284 [inline]
 __ia32_sys_sendto+0xdd/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2284
 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:79 [inline]
 __do_fast_syscall_32+0x13a/0x8b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:291
 do_fast_syscall_32+0x32/0x70 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:316
 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e

Freed by task 5875:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:264 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:296
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6509 [inline]
 kfree+0x22b/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6802
 mesh_send_complete net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:1090 [inline]
 mesh_send_start_complete+0x1a1/0x210 net/bluetooth/mgmt.c:2314
 hci_cmd_sync_work+0x20a/0x4c0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:338
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88804e2ea800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96
The buggy address is located 59 bytes inside of
 freed 96-byte region [ffff88804e2ea800, ffff88804e2ea860)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x4e2ea
flags: 0x4fff00000000000(node=1|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 04fff00000000000 ffff88801c042280 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000200020 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 144, tgid 144 (kworker/u33:5), ts 10148467167
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x110d/0x35d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2eb/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3462 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa9/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:3513
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7418
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x67c/0x840 mm/slub.c:5439
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 lsm_blob_alloc+0x68/0x90 security/security.c:218
 lsm_task_alloc security/security.c:270 [inline]
 security_task_alloc+0x2a/0x260 security/security.c:2785
 copy_process+0x2c11/0x8380 kernel/fork.c:2293
 kernel_clone+0x176/0x9d0 kernel/fork.c:2771
 user_mode_thread+0xd1/0x120 kernel/fork.c:2848
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work kernel/umh.c:169 [inline]
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0xcb/0x180 kernel/umh.c:155
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88804e2ea700: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
 ffff88804e2ea780: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
>ffff88804e2ea800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
                                        ^
 ffff88804e2ea880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88804e2ea900: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/03 02:28 upstream 3b7cab693ba2 57bbd979 .config console log report syz / log [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in mesh_send_sync
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.