[BUG] KASAN: slab-use-after-free in is_free_buddy_page from megaraid_sas
From: Shuangpeng Bai
Date: Sun Jun 14 2026 - 18:02:51 EST
Hi Kernel Maintainers,
I hit the following report while testing current upstream kernel:
KASAN: slab-use-after-free in is_free_buddy_page from megaraid_sas
I reproduced this on commit: e8c2f9fdadee7cbc75134dc463c1e0d856d6e5c7 (May 25 2026)
The reproducer and .config files are here.
https://gist.github.com/shuangpengbai/e04467b211a84fbdea66596b50fac4bc
I'm happy to test debug patches or provide additional information.
Reported-by: Shuangpeng Bai <shuangpeng.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
[ 114.160510][ T8384] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in is_free_buddy_page (include/linux/page-flags.h:993 mm/page_alloc.c:7426)
[ 114.161332][ T8384] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8881263a0030 by task repro_megasas/8384
[ 114.162155][ T8384]
[ 114.162413][ T8384] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 114.162417][ T8384] Call Trace:
[ 114.162420][ T8384] <TASK>
[ 114.162422][ T8384] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:94 lib/dump_stack.c:120)
[ 114.162429][ T8384] print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:378 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
[ 114.162446][ T8384] kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:595)
[ 114.162455][ T8384] is_free_buddy_page (include/linux/page-flags.h:993 mm/page_alloc.c:7426)
[ 114.162459][ T8384] set_ps_flags (mm/util.c:1294)
[ 114.162464][ T8384] snapshot_page (mm/util.c:1333)
[ 114.162469][ T8384] dump_page (mm/debug.c:134 mm/debug.c:146)
[ 114.162517][ T8384] __get_pfnblock_flags_mask (mm/page_alloc.c:357 mm/page_alloc.c:384)
[ 114.162521][ T8384] get_pfnblock_migratetype (mm/page_alloc.c:432)
[ 114.162529][ T8384] dump_page (mm/debug.c:115 mm/debug.c:138 mm/debug.c:146)
[ 114.162548][ T8384] ___free_pages (include/linux/mm.h:1766 mm/page_alloc.c:5306)
[ 114.162552][ T8384] megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl (drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c:?)
[ 114.162579][ T8384] megasas_mgmt_ioctl_fw (drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c:8570)
[ 114.162583][ T8384] megasas_mgmt_ioctl (drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c:8628)
[ 114.162586][ T8384] __se_sys_ioctl (fs/ioctl.c:51 fs/ioctl.c:597 fs/ioctl.c:583)
[ 114.162591][ T8384] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
[ 114.162596][ T8384] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
[ 114.162600][ T8384] RIP: 0033:0x7fd4bdfc4237
[ 114.162604][ T8384] Code: 00 00 00 48 8b 05 59 cc 0d 00 64 c7 00 26 00 00 00 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 29 cc 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[ 114.162607][ T8384] RSP: 002b:00007fd4ba6c6d28 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
[ 114.162612][ T8384] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fd4bdfc4237
[ 114.162615][ T8384] RDX: 00007fd4ba6c6d30 RSI: 00000000c1944d01 RDI: 000000000000000a
[ 114.162618][ T8384] RBP: 00007fd4ba6c6d30 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fd4ba6c8700
[ 114.162619][ T8384] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000a
[ 114.162621][ T8384] R13: 0101000000001000 R14: 0000000100000028 R15: 0000000000802000
[ 114.162626][ T8384] </TASK>
[ 114.162627][ T8384]
[ 114.166559][ T8384] Freed by task 8342 on cpu 0 at 70.147016s:
[ 114.167592][ T8384] kasan_save_track (mm/kasan/common.c:57 mm/kasan/common.c:78)
[ 114.167598][ T8384] kasan_save_free_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:584)
[ 114.167602][ T8384] __kasan_slab_free (mm/kasan/common.c:253 mm/kasan/common.c:285)
[ 114.167606][ T8384] kfree (include/linux/kasan.h:235 mm/slub.c:2689 mm/slub.c:6251 mm/slub.c:6566)
[ 114.167611][ T8384] tomoyo_realpath_from_path (security/tomoyo/realpath.c:286)
[ 114.167618][ T8384] tomoyo_check_open_permission (security/tomoyo/file.c:151 security/tomoyo/file.c:776)
[ 114.171898][ T8384] security_file_open (security/security.c:2739)
[ 114.172838][ T8384] do_dentry_open (fs/open.c:924)
[ 114.173900][ T8384] vfs_open (fs/open.c:1079)
[ 114.173905][ T8384] path_openat (fs/namei.c:4699 fs/namei.c:4858)
[ 114.173908][ T8384] do_file_open (fs/namei.c:4887)
[ 114.174796][ T8384] do_sys_openat2 (fs/open.c:1364)
[ 114.174801][ T8384] __x64_sys_openat (fs/open.c:1370 fs/open.c:1386 fs/open.c:1381 fs/open.c:1381)
[ 114.179693][ T8384] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
[ 114.180735][ T8384] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
[ 114.180739][ T8384]
[ 114.180740][ T8384] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881263a0000
[ 114.180740][ T8384] which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
[ 114.180743][ T8384] The buggy address is located 48 bytes inside of
[ 114.180743][ T8384] freed 4096-byte region [ffff8881263a0000, ffff8881263a1000)
[ 114.188131][ T8384]
Best,
Shuangpeng