[moderation] [serial?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in uart_write (2)

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HEAD commit: 7fa4d8dc380f Add linux-next specific files for 20250821
git tree: linux-next
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1058a462580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=ae76068823a236b3
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b5110677db52cf19e5e9
compiler: Debian clang version 20.1.7 (++20250616065708+6146a88f6049-1~exp1~20250616065826.132), Debian LLD 20.1.7
CC: [gre...@linuxfoundation.org jiri...@kernel.org linux-...@vger.kernel.org linux-...@vger.kernel.org]

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in uart_write+0x53/0x130 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:612
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805b60b5f8 by task aoe_tx0/1302

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1302 Comm: aoe_tx0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
uart_write+0x53/0x130 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:612
handle_tx+0x23f/0x610 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:222
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5222 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5231 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3839 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2d7/0x830 net/core/dev.c:3855
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1b8d/0x3b50 net/core/dev.c:4725
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3361 [inline]
tx+0x6b/0x190 drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:62
kthread+0x1cd/0x3e0 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1241
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x47c/0x820 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>

Allocated by task 19669:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:397 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:414
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x21c/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:4396
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1043 [inline]
alloc_tty_struct+0xa6/0x780 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3102
tty_init_dev+0x59/0x4d0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1400
tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2073 [inline]
tty_open+0x5ab/0xd10 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120
chrdev_open+0x4cc/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:414
do_dentry_open+0x950/0x13f0 fs/open.c:965
vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1095
do_open fs/namei.c:3887 [inline]
path_openat+0x2ee5/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4046
do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4073
do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1435
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1450 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1466 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1461 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1461
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5900:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
__kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:587
kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline]
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5b/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2417 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:4680 [inline]
kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4879
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x47c/0x820 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:559
insert_work+0x3d/0x330 kernel/workqueue.c:2184
__queue_work+0xcd2/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2339
queue_work_on+0x181/0x270 kernel/workqueue.c:2390
tty_release_struct+0xb8/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1692
tty_release+0xcb0/0x1640 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1852
__fput+0x449/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:468
task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
do_exit+0x6b5/0x2300 kernel/exit.c:961
do_group_exit+0x21c/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1102
get_signal+0x1286/0x1340 kernel/signal.c:3034
arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x9a/0x750 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x75/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:40
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Second to last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:559
insert_work+0x3d/0x330 kernel/workqueue.c:2184
__queue_work+0xcd2/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2339
queue_work_on+0x181/0x270 kernel/workqueue.c:2390
serial8250_modem_status+0x1ac/0x2a0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1747
serial8250_handle_irq+0x576/0xbb0 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1824
serial8250_default_handle_irq+0xbf/0x200 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1846
serial8250_interrupt+0x8d/0x180 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:82
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x289/0x980 kernel/irq/handle.c:158
handle_irq_event_percpu kernel/irq/handle.c:193 [inline]
handle_irq_event+0x8b/0x1e0 kernel/irq/handle.c:210
handle_edge_irq+0x23b/0xa10 kernel/irq/chip.c:855
generic_handle_irq_desc include/linux/irqdesc.h:173 [inline]
handle_irq arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:254 [inline]
call_irq_handler arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:-1 [inline]
__common_interrupt+0x141/0x1f0 arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:325
common_interrupt+0x5e/0xe0 arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:318
asm_common_interrupt+0x26/0x40 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:688

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805b60b000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1528 bytes inside of
freed 2048-byte region [ffff88805b60b000, ffff88805b60b800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88805b60f000 pfn:0x5b608
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff88804b098901
flags: 0xfff00000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801a84b3c0 ffffea00009f7c10 ffffea0001dff610
raw: ffff88805b60f000 0000000000080007 00000000f5000000 ffff88804b098901
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801a84b3c0 ffffea00009f7c10 ffffea0001dff610
head: ffff88805b60f000 0000000000080007 00000000f5000000 ffff88804b098901
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea00016d8201 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 16145, tgid 16145 (syz-executor), ts 316122070478, free_ts 302126180398
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2487 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x8a/0x330 mm/slub.c:2655
new_slab mm/slub.c:2709 [inline]
___slab_alloc+0xbd1/0x13e0 mm/slub.c:3891
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3981 [inline]
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4056 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4217 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x2f1/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:4377
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:913 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1043 [inline]
__register_sysctl_table+0x72/0x1340 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1379
__devinet_sysctl_register+0x37f/0x470 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2678
devinet_sysctl_register+0x187/0x200 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2718
inetdev_init+0x2b4/0x500 net/ipv4/devinet.c:291
inetdev_event+0x301/0x15b0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1591
notifier_call_chain+0x1b3/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:85
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2267 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2281 [inline]
register_netdevice+0x1608/0x1ae0 net/core/dev.c:11244
geneve_configure+0x645/0xa80 drivers/net/geneve.c:1406
geneve_newlink+0x188/0x220 drivers/net/geneve.c:1674
page last free pid 15271 tgid 15271 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xbc4/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2895
discard_slab mm/slub.c:2753 [inline]
__put_partials+0x146/0x170 mm/slub.c:3218
put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:3293
__slab_free+0x2b9/0x390 mm/slub.c:4550
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x97/0x140 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:349
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4180 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4229 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x1ad/0x390 mm/slub.c:4236
anon_vma_chain_alloc mm/rmap.c:142 [inline]
__anon_vma_prepare+0xcb/0x4a0 mm/rmap.c:195
__vmf_anon_prepare mm/memory.c:3634 [inline]
vmf_anon_prepare mm/internal.h:432 [inline]
do_anonymous_page mm/memory.c:5178 [inline]
do_pte_missing mm/memory.c:4360 [inline]
handle_pte_fault mm/memory.c:6182 [inline]
__handle_mm_fault+0x4aff/0x5400 mm/memory.c:6323
handle_mm_fault+0x40a/0x8e0 mm/memory.c:6492
do_user_addr_fault+0xa81/0x1390 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1336
handle_page_fault arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1476 [inline]
exc_page_fault+0x82/0x100 arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1532
asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:618

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88805b60b480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88805b60b500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88805b60b580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88805b60b600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88805b60b680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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