[v6.1] KASAN: use-after-free Read in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings (2)
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syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 8ce36b2849ef Linux 6.1.163
git tree: linux-6.1.y
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=150ab652580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=f0605c5af04d7603
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=911579df5fb6198e1999
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8
Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/25d3bb1313db/disk-8ce36b28.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/53d3c77e16da/vmlinux-8ce36b28.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/ca171a78e481/bzImage-8ce36b28.xz
IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+911579...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x6a/0x180 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:445
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880567ac208 by task kworker/0:12/5628
CPU: 0 PID: 5628 Comm: kworker/0:12 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: events smc_ib_port_event_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
__ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x6a/0x180 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:445
ib_get_eth_speed+0x176/0x510 drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c:1898
rxe_query_port+0x58/0x190 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c:38
__ib_query_port drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:2081 [inline]
ib_query_port+0x163/0x820 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:2113
smc_ib_remember_port_attr net/smc/smc_ib.c:364 [inline]
smc_ib_port_event_work+0x163/0x940 net/smc/smc_ib.c:388
process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
</TASK>
Allocated by task 4269:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:211 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:936 [inline]
__kmalloc_node+0xb0/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:943
kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:589 [inline]
kvmalloc_node+0x6c/0x180 mm/util.c:581
kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:716 [inline]
kvzalloc include/linux/slab.h:724 [inline]
alloc_netdev_mqs+0x84/0xf00 net/core/dev.c:10744
rtnl_create_link+0x2fb/0xb80 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3295
rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3412 [inline]
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x1452/0x2080 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x87c/0xfc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6150
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x74d/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
netlink_sendmsg+0x8ad/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1872
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x497/0x650 net/socket.c:2152
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2164 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2160 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2160
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
Freed by task 4359:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1755
slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
__kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3700
device_release+0x92/0x1c0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:681 [inline]
kobject_release lib/kobject.c:712 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
kobject_put+0x21d/0x460 lib/kobject.c:729
netdev_run_todo+0xcb3/0xdb0 net/core/dev.c:10534
default_device_exit_batch+0x9eb/0xa80 net/core/dev.c:11517
ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:177 [inline]
cleanup_net+0x791/0xba0 net/core/net_namespace.c:640
process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880567ac000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 520 bytes inside of
4096-byte region [ffff8880567ac000, ffff8880567ad000)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea000159ea00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8880567aa000 pfn:0x567a8
head:ffffea000159ea00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
memcg:ffff88807df2c001
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea0001f49408 ffffea000162e008 ffff88801744c280
raw: ffff8880567aa000 0000000000040003 00000001ffffffff ffff88807df2c001
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 4269, tgid 4269 (syz-executor), ts 70923210835, free_ts 20789041849
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2559
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2566 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x1a1e/0x1ab0 mm/page_alloc.c:4357
__alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5643
alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1799
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1944 [inline]
new_slab+0x87/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1997
___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a0/0x260 mm/slub.c:3398
kmalloc_trace+0x26/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1026
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
snmp6_alloc_dev net/ipv6/addrconf.c:354 [inline]
ipv6_add_dev+0x59c/0x1120 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:404
addrconf_notify+0x634/0xf40 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3595
notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:87 [inline]
raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:455
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2052 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2066 [inline]
register_netdevice+0x163f/0x1b00 net/core/dev.c:10250
virt_wifi_newlink+0x3d0/0x810 drivers/net/wireless/virt_wifi.c:567
rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3422 [inline]
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x1542/0x2080 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x87c/0xfc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6150
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1486 [inline]
free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1536 [inline]
free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3413
free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3508
free_contig_range+0x9d/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:9611
destroy_args+0xf0/0xa0a mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1031
debug_vm_pgtable+0x33c/0x38e mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1359
do_one_initcall+0x26a/0x840 init/main.c:1310
do_initcall_level+0x137/0x1e4 init/main.c:1383
do_initcalls+0x4b/0x8a init/main.c:1399
kernel_init_freeable+0x415/0x5be init/main.c:1638
kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1526
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8880567ac100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880567ac180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880567ac200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8880567ac280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880567ac300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
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syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 8ce36b2849ef Linux 6.1.163
git tree: linux-6.1.y
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=150ab652580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=f0605c5af04d7603
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=911579df5fb6198e1999
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8
Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/25d3bb1313db/disk-8ce36b28.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/53d3c77e16da/vmlinux-8ce36b28.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/ca171a78e481/bzImage-8ce36b28.xz
IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+911579...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x6a/0x180 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:445
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880567ac208 by task kworker/0:12/5628
CPU: 0 PID: 5628 Comm: kworker/0:12 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: events smc_ib_port_event_work
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
__ethtool_get_link_ksettings+0x6a/0x180 net/ethtool/ioctl.c:445
ib_get_eth_speed+0x176/0x510 drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c:1898
rxe_query_port+0x58/0x190 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c:38
__ib_query_port drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:2081 [inline]
ib_query_port+0x163/0x820 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:2113
smc_ib_remember_port_attr net/smc/smc_ib.c:364 [inline]
smc_ib_port_event_work+0x163/0x940 net/smc/smc_ib.c:388
process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
</TASK>
Allocated by task 4269:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:211 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:936 [inline]
__kmalloc_node+0xb0/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:943
kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:589 [inline]
kvmalloc_node+0x6c/0x180 mm/util.c:581
kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:716 [inline]
kvzalloc include/linux/slab.h:724 [inline]
alloc_netdev_mqs+0x84/0xf00 net/core/dev.c:10744
rtnl_create_link+0x2fb/0xb80 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3295
rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3412 [inline]
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x1452/0x2080 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x87c/0xfc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6150
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x74d/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
netlink_sendmsg+0x8ad/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1872
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x497/0x650 net/socket.c:2152
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2164 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2160 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2160
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
Freed by task 4359:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1755
slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
__kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3700
device_release+0x92/0x1c0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:681 [inline]
kobject_release lib/kobject.c:712 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
kobject_put+0x21d/0x460 lib/kobject.c:729
netdev_run_todo+0xcb3/0xdb0 net/core/dev.c:10534
default_device_exit_batch+0x9eb/0xa80 net/core/dev.c:11517
ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:177 [inline]
cleanup_net+0x791/0xba0 net/core/net_namespace.c:640
process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880567ac000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 520 bytes inside of
4096-byte region [ffff8880567ac000, ffff8880567ad000)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea000159ea00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8880567aa000 pfn:0x567a8
head:ffffea000159ea00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
memcg:ffff88807df2c001
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea0001f49408 ffffea000162e008 ffff88801744c280
raw: ffff8880567aa000 0000000000040003 00000001ffffffff ffff88807df2c001
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 4269, tgid 4269 (syz-executor), ts 70923210835, free_ts 20789041849
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2559
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2566 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x1a1e/0x1ab0 mm/page_alloc.c:4357
__alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5643
alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1799
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1944 [inline]
new_slab+0x87/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1997
___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a0/0x260 mm/slub.c:3398
kmalloc_trace+0x26/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1026
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
snmp6_alloc_dev net/ipv6/addrconf.c:354 [inline]
ipv6_add_dev+0x59c/0x1120 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:404
addrconf_notify+0x634/0xf40 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3595
notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:87 [inline]
raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:455
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2052 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2066 [inline]
register_netdevice+0x163f/0x1b00 net/core/dev.c:10250
virt_wifi_newlink+0x3d0/0x810 drivers/net/wireless/virt_wifi.c:567
rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3422 [inline]
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3642 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x1542/0x2080 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3655
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x87c/0xfc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6150
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1486 [inline]
free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1536 [inline]
free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3413
free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3508
free_contig_range+0x9d/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:9611
destroy_args+0xf0/0xa0a mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1031
debug_vm_pgtable+0x33c/0x38e mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1359
do_one_initcall+0x26a/0x840 init/main.c:1310
do_initcall_level+0x137/0x1e4 init/main.c:1383
do_initcalls+0x4b/0x8a init/main.c:1399
kernel_init_freeable+0x415/0x5be init/main.c:1638
kernel_init+0x19/0x1b0 init/main.c:1526
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8880567ac100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880567ac180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880567ac200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8880567ac280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880567ac300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
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