[v5.15] KASAN: use-after-free Write in nfsd_svc

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HEAD commit: 674f684f7c61 Linux 5.15.212
git tree: linux-5.15.y
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13f626b9580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=f161cbc9aef65db0
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=08414349f5cb507aa073
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8

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svc: failed to register nfsdv3 RPC service (errno 111).
svc: failed to register nfsaclv3 RPC service (errno 111).
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:167 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:272 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in svc_put include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:123 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nfsd_svc+0x7a5/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:821
Write of size 4 at addr ffff8880239ab050 by task syz.2.21/4331

CPU: 0 PID: 4331 Comm: syz.2.21 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
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
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x235/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:101 [inline]
atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:167 [inline]
__refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:272 [inline]
__refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]
refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
svc_put include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:123 [inline]
nfsd_svc+0x7a5/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:821
write_threads+0x2ea/0x350 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:426
nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
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: 0033:0x7f44927dde99
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:00007f4490a36028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4492a65fa0 RCX: 00007f44927dde99
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000200000000100 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f4492873eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f4492a66038 R14: 00007f4492a65fa0 R15: 00007ffe78eb8a58
</TASK>

Allocated by task 4331:
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+0xaf/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
__svc_create+0x60/0x9d0 net/sunrpc/svc.c:458
svc_create_pooled+0x62f/0x810 net/sunrpc/svc.c:546
nfsd_create_serv+0x2f9/0x700 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:668
nfsd_svc+0x132/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:798
write_threads+0x2ea/0x350 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:426
nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
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 4331:
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+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
svc_put include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h:123 [inline]
nfsd_svc+0x771/0x9e0 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:820
write_threads+0x2ea/0x350 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:426
nfsctl_transaction_write+0x105/0x150 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:114
vfs_write+0x304/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:592
ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880239ab000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 80 bytes inside of
512-byte region [ffff8880239ab000, ffff8880239ab200)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00008e6a00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x239a8
head:ffffea00008e6a00 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff888016c41c80
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d2a20(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 4188, ts 74842614591, free_ts 74719712332
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
__alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
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+0x807/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x13d/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:4963
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:356 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x22c/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:427
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1162 [inline]
ndisc_alloc_skb+0xa6/0x420 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:422
ndisc_send_rs+0x271/0x700 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:691
addrconf_rs_timer+0x367/0x640 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3966
call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1648
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1699 [inline]
__run_timers+0x56c/0x810 kernel/time/timer.c:1970
run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1983
handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
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
stack_depot_save+0x42f/0x460 lib/stackdepot.c:335
kasan_save_stack+0x4b/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:40
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
__call_rcu kernel/rcu/tree.c:3011 [inline]
call_rcu+0x189/0x900 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3091
rxrpc_release_calls_on_socket+0x28e/0x320 net/rxrpc/call_object.c:612
rxrpc_release_sock net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c:880 [inline]
rxrpc_release+0x26c/0x430 net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c:911
__sock_release net/socket.c:651 [inline]
sock_close+0xbf/0x210 net/socket.c:1346
__fput+0x212/0x8c0 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8880239aaf00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8880239aaf80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8880239ab000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8880239ab080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880239ab100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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