[v5.15] KASAN: use-after-free Read in ax25_addr_ax25dev (2)

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HEAD commit: 9eec9a14ee10 Linux 5.15.198
git tree: linux-5.15.y
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15154402580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=353ae28c40b35af5
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=7b029317e67481fc436b
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8

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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ax25_addr_ax25dev+0x55/0x160 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:38
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888025824608 by task syz.1.1321/10300

CPU: 0 PID: 10300 Comm: syz.1.1321 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
ax25_addr_ax25dev+0x55/0x160 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:38
ax25_bind+0x435/0xb60 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1129
__sys_bind+0x2e9/0x3e0 net/socket.c:1729
__do_sys_bind net/socket.c:1740 [inline]
__se_sys_bind net/socket.c:1738 [inline]
__x64_sys_bind+0x76/0x80 net/socket.c:1738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fecb772feb9
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:00007fecb598b028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000031
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fecb79aafa0 RCX: 00007fecb772feb9
RDX: 0000000000000048 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fecb779dc1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fecb79ab038 R14: 00007fecb79aafa0 R15: 00007fffae402398
</TASK>

Allocated by task 9704:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
ax25_dev_device_up+0x50/0x580 net/ax25/ax25_dev.c:55
ax25_device_event+0x483/0x4f0 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:139
notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
__dev_notify_flags+0x194/0x300 net/core/dev.c:8891
dev_change_flags+0xe3/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8929
dev_ifsioc+0x130/0xd50 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:324
dev_ioctl+0x545/0xe30 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:572
sock_do_ioctl+0x245/0x320 net/socket.c:1161
sock_ioctl+0x4d2/0x710 net/socket.c:1266
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfa/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:860
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Freed by task 10144:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
ax25_dev_put include/net/ax25.h:302 [inline]
ax25_release+0x661/0x870 net/ax25/af_ax25.c:1062
__sock_release net/socket.c:651 [inline]
sock_close+0xd5/0x240 net/socket.c:1345
__fput+0x234/0x930 fs/file_table.c:311
task_work_run+0x125/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:188
tracehook_notify_resume include/linux/tracehook.h:189 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10f/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:181
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:214
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:296 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x16/0x40 kernel/entry/common.c:307
do_syscall_64+0x58/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
insert_work+0x54/0x3d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1366
__queue_work+0x9c5/0xd50 kernel/workqueue.c:1532
queue_work_on+0x124/0x1f0 kernel/workqueue.c:1559
queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:512 [inline]
netdevice_queue_work drivers/infiniband/core/roce_gid_mgmt.c:659 [inline]
netdevice_event+0x803/0x900 drivers/infiniband/core/roce_gid_mgmt.c:802
notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
register_netdevice+0x129d/0x16f0 net/core/dev.c:10428
__ip_tunnel_create+0x2c7/0x390 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:267
ip_tunnel_init_net+0x246/0x6f0 net/ipv4/ip_tunnel.c:1084
ops_init+0x357/0x600 net/core/net_namespace.c:138
setup_net+0x39e/0xa10 net/core/net_namespace.c:333
copy_net_ns+0x348/0x5b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:503
create_new_namespaces+0x3d3/0x6f0 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x116/0x160 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
ksys_unshare+0x4ca/0x8b0 kernel/fork.c:3175
__do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3249 [inline]
__se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3247 [inline]
__x64_sys_unshare+0x34/0x40 kernel/fork.c:3247
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Second to last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
__call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:3011 [inline]
call_rcu+0x189/0x950 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3091
addrconf_ifdown+0x16ee/0x19c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3929
addrconf_notify+0x445/0xf00 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
unregister_netdevice_many+0x1049/0x19f0 net/core/dev.c:11134
default_device_exit_batch+0x364/0x3c0 net/core/dev.c:11667
ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:177 [inline]
cleanup_net+0x791/0xba0 net/core/net_namespace.c:635
process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
worker_thread+0xaa6/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888025824600
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-192 of size 192
The buggy address is located 8 bytes inside of
192-byte region [ffff888025824600, ffff8880258246c0)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0000960900 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x25824
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 0000000000000000 0000000600000001 ffff888016c41a00
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x12c00(GFP_NOIO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 1, ts 11925515786, free_ts 11648027708
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x1bbd/0x1ca0 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
__alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5487
alloc_page_interleave+0x24/0x1e0 mm/mempolicy.c:2031
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
___slab_alloc+0x80a/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
__kmalloc+0x1cd/0x330 mm/slub.c:4408
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:612 [inline]
usb_alloc_urb+0x3f/0x140 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:74
usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:95 [inline]
usb_control_msg+0x115/0x3e0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:153
usb_get_string+0xa1/0x3c0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:843
usb_string_sub+0x76/0x420 drivers/usb/core/message.c:882
usb_string+0x38b/0x760 drivers/usb/core/message.c:987
usb_cache_string+0x7b/0xf0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1029
usb_enumerate_device drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2474 [inline]
usb_new_device+0x288/0x1660 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2602
register_root_hub+0x278/0x580 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1021
usb_add_hcd+0xa88/0xef0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:3007
vhci_hcd_probe+0x1bd/0x370 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1401
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
free_unref_page+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
__vunmap+0x8b9/0xa50 mm/vmalloc.c:2628
free_work+0x56/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:95
process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
worker_thread+0xaa6/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888025824500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff888025824580: 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888025824600: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888025824680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888025824700: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
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