[v6.6] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in ax25_find_cb

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HEAD commit: 5fa4793a2d2d Linux 6.6.119
git tree: linux-6.6.y
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13fcaeb4580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=691a6769a86ac817
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=526d9c3f7e2b33478320
compiler: Debian clang version 20.1.8 (++20250708063551+0c9f909b7976-1~exp1~20250708183702.136), Debian LLD 20.1.8
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=125fd21a580000
C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=165fd21a580000

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vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/8506652fcb6f/vmlinux-5fa4793a.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/1b30ceed1710/bzImage-5fa4793a.xz

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ax25_find_cb+0x179/0x3a0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:236
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888021476210 by task syz.3.1064/7044

CPU: 1 PID: 7044 Comm: syz.3.1064 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
print_report+0xac/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:468
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
ax25_find_cb+0x179/0x3a0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:236
rose_link_up net/rose/rose_link.c:129 [inline]
rose_transmit_link+0x16d/0x740 net/rose/rose_link.c:271
rose_write_internal+0x11d1/0x1ab0 net/rose/rose_subr.c:198
rose_connect+0x909/0x10a0 net/rose/af_rose.c:880
__sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2057 [inline]
__sys_connect+0x397/0x420 net/socket.c:2074
__do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2084 [inline]
__se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2081 [inline]
__x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2081
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f8fc3b8f749
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe1a19a848 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8fc3de5fa0 RCX: 00007f8fc3b8f749
RDX: 0000000000000040 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f8fc3c13f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8fc3de5fa0 R14: 00007f8fc3de5fa0 R15: 0000000000000003
</TASK>

Allocated by task 7001:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:374 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:383
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
ax25_dev_device_up+0x54/0x5f0 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:57
ax25_device_event+0x124/0x610 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:143
notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x390 kernel/notifier.c:93
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2064 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2078 [inline]
__dev_notify_flags+0x18e/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:-1
dev_change_flags+0xe8/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8762
dev_ifsioc+0x6a7/0xe20 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:529
dev_ioctl+0x7e2/0x1170 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:786
sock_do_ioctl+0x226/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1236
sock_ioctl+0x623/0x7a0 net/socket.c:1341
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 5796:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:52
kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:236
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1837
slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
kmem_cache_free_bulk+0x347/0x460 mm/slub.c:3948
kfree_bulk include/linux/slab.h:517 [inline]
kvfree_rcu_bulk+0x1eb/0x470 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3032
kvfree_rcu_drain_ready kernel/rcu/tree.c:3216 [inline]
kfree_rcu_monitor+0x7e7/0xf50 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3234
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
__kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
kvfree_call_rcu+0xee/0x780 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3452
ax25_device_event+0x56c/0x610 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:148
notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x390 kernel/notifier.c:93
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2064 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2078 [inline]
__dev_notify_flags+0x18e/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:-1
dev_change_flags+0xe8/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8762
dev_ifsioc+0x6a7/0xe20 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:529
dev_ioctl+0x7e2/0x1170 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:786
sock_do_ioctl+0x226/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1236
sock_ioctl+0x623/0x7a0 net/socket.c:1341
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Second to last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:45
__kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
kvfree_call_rcu+0xee/0x780 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3452
ax25_device_event+0x56c/0x610 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:148
notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x390 kernel/notifier.c:93
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2064 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2078 [inline]
__dev_notify_flags+0x18e/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:-1
dev_change_flags+0xe8/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8762
dev_ifsioc+0x6a7/0xe20 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:529
dev_ioctl+0x7e2/0x1170 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:786
sock_do_ioctl+0x226/0x2f0 net/socket.c:1236
sock_ioctl+0x623/0x7a0 net/socket.c:1341
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:871 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfd/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:857
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888021476200
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
freed 256-byte region [ffff888021476200, ffff888021476300)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000851d80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x21476
head:ffffea0000851d80 order:1 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
ksm flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017841b40 ffffea0000bb6d00 dead000000000003
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 5791, tgid 5791 (syz-executor), ts 78413392262, free_ts 74588451030
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1cd/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1554
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
__alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x170 mm/slub.c:1881
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
new_slab+0x87/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2081
___slab_alloc+0xc6d/0x1300 mm/slub.c:3253
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a2/0x260 mm/slub.c:3534
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
__kmalloc+0xa4/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1020
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
new_dir fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:969 [inline]
get_subdir fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1013 [inline]
sysctl_mkdir_p fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1308 [inline]
__register_sysctl_table+0xac9/0x1240 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1389
neigh_sysctl_register+0x9cc/0xab0 net/core/neighbour.c:3870
addrconf_sysctl_register+0xac/0x1b0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7226
ipv6_add_dev+0xc42/0x11f0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:451
addrconf_notify+0x67b/0x1010 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3622
notifier_call_chain+0x197/0x390 kernel/notifier.c:93
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2064 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2078 [inline]
register_netdevice+0x160c/0x1ae0 net/core/dev.c:10313
tun_set_iff+0x848/0xed0 drivers/net/tun.c:2862
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
__slab_free+0x35e/0x410 mm/slub.c:3736
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x75/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:305
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x13e/0x260 mm/slub.c:3534
kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
kernfs_fop_open+0x3f5/0xcc0 fs/kernfs/file.c:690
do_dentry_open+0x8c6/0x1500 fs/open.c:929
do_open fs/namei.c:3640 [inline]
path_openat+0x274b/0x3190 fs/namei.c:3797
do_filp_open+0x1c5/0x3d0 fs/namei.c:3824
do_sys_openat2+0x12c/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1421
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1447
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888021476100: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888021476180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888021476200: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888021476280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888021476300: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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