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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 ffff888041d9d158 by task kworker/0:0/9
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func
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 kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:519 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0xcb/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:758
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:775
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:211 [inline]
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x47/0x80 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:221
Code: f7 e8 cd 4f ba f5 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 05 e8 60 9d e6 f5 9c 58 a9 00 02 00 00 75 29 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 01 fb bf 01 00 00 00 04 4d ab f5 65 48 8b 05 4c f0 ab 07 48 85 c0 74 18 5b 41 5e e9
RSP: 0018:ffffc900000e76b8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 0000000000000006 RBX: 0000000000000286 RCX: 8000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffffffff8e416437 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 1ffff1100eb79da5 R08: ffffffff907a647f R09: 1ffffffff20f4c8f
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff20f4c90 R12: 0000000000000011
R13: ffff88807e8a9000 R14: ffffffff9ac8a328 R15: 0000000000000000
__debug_check_no_obj_freed lib/debugobjects.c:1180 [inline]
debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x39e/0x450 lib/debugobjects.c:1201
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1425 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0x5cc/0xd90 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
device_release+0xc4/0x1f0 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+0x222/0x550 lib/kobject.c:737
ath9k_htc_probe_device+0x232/0x2370 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:980
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
Allocated by task 9:
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 9:
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 ffff888041d9d000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 344 bytes inside of
freed 2048-byte region [ffff888041d9d000, ffff888041d9d800)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888041d98000 pfn:0x41d98
head: order:3 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 ffff88801b042000 ffffea0001522e10 ffffea000210b010
raw: ffff888041d98000 0000000000080007 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801b042000 ffffea0001522e10 ffffea000210b010
head: ffff888041d98000 0000000000080007 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 5749, tgid 5749 (kworker/1:7), ts 301864539573
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]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x548/0x720 mm/slub.c:5545
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:637 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x2c1/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:715
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
mld_newpack+0x165/0xcb0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1810
add_grhead net/ipv6/mcast.c:1921 [inline]
add_grec+0x119f/0x19d0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2060
mld_send_cr net/ipv6/mcast.c:2185 [inline]
mld_ifc_work+0x6f1/0xd60 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2739
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
page last free pid 5749 tgid 5749 ts 301820412623 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
free_pages_prepare+0x9eb/0xaf0 mm/page_alloc.c:1463
__free_contig_range_common+0x174/0x340 mm/page_alloc.c:7072
__free_contig_range mm/page_alloc.c:7117 [inline]
free_pages_bulk+0x48/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:5322
vm_area_free_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3461 [inline]
vfree+0x231/0x490 mm/vmalloc.c:3510
delayed_vfree_work+0x55/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3414
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
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888041d9d000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888041d9d080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888041d9d100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888041d9d180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888041d9d200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Code disassembly (best guess), 1 bytes skipped:
0: e8 cd 4f ba f5 call 0xf5ba4fd2
5: f7 c3 00 02 00 00 test $0x200,%ebx
b: 74 05 je 0x12
d: e8 60 9d e6 f5 call 0xf5e69d72
12: 9c pushf
13: 58 pop %rax
14: a9 00 02 00 00 test $0x200,%eax
19: 75 29 jne 0x44
1b: f7 c3 00 02 00 00 test $0x200,%ebx
21: 74 01 je 0x24
23: fb sti
24: bf 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%edi
* 29: e8 04 4d ab f5 call 0xf5ab4d32 <-- trapping instruction
2e: 65 48 8b 05 4c f0 ab mov %gs:0x7abf04c(%rip),%rax # 0x7abf082
35: 07
36: 48 85 c0 test %rax,%rax
39: 74 18 je 0x53
3b: 5b pop %rbx
3c: 41 5e pop %r14
3e: e9 .byte 0xe9