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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tasklet_action_common+0x103/0x490 kernel/softirq.c:954
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880787ee158 by task syz.3.2645/15273
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 15273 Comm: syz.3.2645 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
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
tasklet_action_common+0x103/0x490 kernel/softirq.c:954
handle_softirqs+0x226/0x860 kernel/softirq.c:645
do_softirq+0x77/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:546
__local_bh_enable_ip+0x100/0x140 kernel/softirq.c:473
local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x1b1/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:699
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
alloc_uevent_skb+0x7d/0x230 lib/kobject_uevent.c:289
uevent_net_broadcast_tagged lib/kobject_uevent.c:352 [inline]
kobject_uevent_net_broadcast+0x184/0x560 lib/kobject_uevent.c:415
kobject_uevent_env+0x566/0x9e0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:611
netdev_queue_add_kobject net/core/net-sysfs.c:1992 [inline]
netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x33a/0x6b0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2035
register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:2098 [inline]
netdev_register_kobject+0x277/0x350 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2344
register_netdevice+0x1433/0x1eb0 net/core/dev.c:11546
register_netdev+0x40/0x60 net/core/dev.c:11663
ip6gre_init_net+0x28f/0x3b0 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:1610
ops_init+0x35d/0x5d0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137
setup_net+0x118/0x350 net/core/net_namespace.c:443
copy_net_ns+0x53b/0x780 net/core/net_namespace.c:582
create_new_namespaces+0x3f0/0x6b0 kernel/nsproxy.c:132
copy_namespaces+0x432/0x4b0 kernel/nsproxy.c:195
copy_process+0x1ec4/0x4400 kernel/fork.c:2314
kernel_clone+0x2d7/0x940 kernel/fork.c:2771
__do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2913 [inline]
__se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2897 [inline]
__x64_sys_clone+0x1b6/0x230 kernel/fork.c:2897
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f54ff19e159
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f550002efd8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f54ff426180 RCX: 00007f54ff19e159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000648c7000
RBP: 00007f54ff23506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f54ff426218 R14: 00007f54ff426180 R15: 00007f54ff54fa48
Allocated by task 9428:
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:409 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:426
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x321/0x600 mm/slub.c:5563
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
ath9k_init_wmi+0x4f/0x2b0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c:95
ath9k_htc_probe_device+0x1e5/0x2370 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:956
ath9k_htc_hw_init+0x32/0x70 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:532
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x214/0x4b0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1255
request_firmware_work_func+0xf7/0x2d0 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1164
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
Freed by task 9428:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:264 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/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:6508 [inline]
kfree+0x1c5/0x650 mm/slub.c:6801
ath9k_htc_probe_device+0x11a9/0x2370 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:978
ath9k_htc_hw_init+0x32/0x70 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:532
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x214/0x4b0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1255
request_firmware_work_func+0xf7/0x2d0 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1164
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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 ffff8880787ee000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 344 bytes inside of
freed 2048-byte region [ffff8880787ee000, ffff8880787ee800)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x787e8
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 ffff88801b042000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b042000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 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 5630, tgid 5630 (syz-executor), ts 72020680824
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x2209/0x2280 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x217/0x5a0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
refill_objects+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7417
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2c8/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x39b/0x600 mm/slub.c:5559
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x143/0x1c30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4118
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x802/0xc00 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7137
netlink_rcv_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2575
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x7bd/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1364
netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1919
sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x13a/0x180 net/socket.c:800
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x408/0x5a0 net/socket.c:2281
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2288 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2284 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2284
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
page last free pid 5630 tgid 5630 ts 72020151455 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xc93/0xd90 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
__slab_free+0x274/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:5823
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:361
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x354/0x610 mm/slub.c:5068
__alloc_skb+0x1db/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:704
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:1055 [inline]
netlink_ack+0x136/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2512
netlink_rcv_skb+0x2a4/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2581
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x7bd/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1364
netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1919
sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x13a/0x180 net/socket.c:800
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x408/0x5a0 net/socket.c:2281
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2288 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2284 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0x100 net/socket.c:2284
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8880787ee000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880787ee080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880787ee100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8880787ee180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880787ee200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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