[syzbot ci] Re: net/ipv6: don't route packets with unknown source address
From: syzbot ci
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 02:45:54 EST
syzbot ci has tested the following series
[v1] net/ipv6: don't route packets with unknown source address
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260901115021.50057-1-ihuguet@xxxxxxxxxx
* [PATCH net] net/ipv6: don't route packets with unknown source address
and found the following issues:
* KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in tcp_v6_send_response
* KASAN: use-after-free Read in tcp_v6_send_response
Full report is available here:
https://ci.syzbot.org/series/bf5b7c3c-6165-4e2e-b403-34a698f5ee76
***
KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in tcp_v6_send_response
tree: net
URL: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git
base: 1d2929d0850fff683b8aff051275945e65f082c8
arch: amd64
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
config: https://ci.syzbot.org/builds/19ac2ebf-5913-40a0-982b-446415180382/config
syz repro: https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/103185a7-eed2-413d-9bb8-0cfd4d802dbb/syz_repro
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in inet_sk_flowi_flags include/net/inet_sock.h:411 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in tcp_v6_send_response+0x116c/0x1e30 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:983
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881bc3cecb8 by task kworker/u8:3/5678
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5678 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: krdsd rds_tcp_accept_worker
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
_test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
inet_sk_flowi_flags include/net/inet_sock.h:411 [inline]
tcp_v6_send_response+0x116c/0x1e30 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:983
tcp_v6_send_ack net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1149 [inline]
tcp_v6_timewait_ack+0x2c6/0x4c0 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1201
tcp_v6_rcv+0x1f09/0x2d90 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1993
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xab9/0x1680 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:479
ip6_input_finish+0x191/0x370 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:534
NF_HOOK+0x336/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
ip6_input+0x16a/0x270 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:545
NF_HOOK+0x336/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
__netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6264 [inline]
__netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6377 [inline]
process_backlog+0x795/0x18b0 net/core/dev.c:6728
__napi_poll+0xaa/0x330 net/core/dev.c:7787
napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7850 [inline]
net_rx_action+0x61d/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:8007
handle_softirqs+0x226/0x860 kernel/softirq.c:645
do_softirq+0x77/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:546
</IRQ>
<TASK>
__local_bh_enable_ip+0x100/0x140 kernel/softirq.c:473
local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:923 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1edc/0x3820 net/core/dev.c:4961
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
ip6_output+0x337/0x540 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:248
dst_output include/net/dst.h:471 [inline]
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:325 [inline]
ip6_xmit+0x117f/0x1a60 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:381
inet6_csk_xmit+0x397/0x660 net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c:123
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x2640/0x47c0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1717
tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1734 [inline]
tcp_write_xmit+0x1bfa/0x6400 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3062
__tcp_push_pending_frames+0x96/0x380 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3245
__tcp_close+0x56e/0xe70 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3220
tcp_close+0x28/0x110 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3311
inet_release+0x143/0x190 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:442
__sock_release net/socket.c:735 [inline]
sock_release+0x85/0x150 net/socket.c:763
rds_tcp_accept_one+0x62c/0xd40 net/rds/tcp_listen.c:341
rds_tcp_accept_worker+0x1d/0x70 net/rds/tcp.c:556
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3387 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3470
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
kthread+0x38b/0x480 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881bc3ceb80
which belongs to the cache tw_sock_TCPv6 of size 304
The buggy address is located 8 bytes to the right of
allocated 304-byte region [ffff8881bc3ceb80, ffff8881bc3cecb0)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8881bc3ce8a0 pfn:0x1bc3ce
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff8881bb1a4301
flags: 0x57ff00000000240(workingset|head|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 057ff00000000240 ffff8881042e0640 ffff88816fedf1c8 ffff88816fedf1c8
raw: ffff8881bc3ce8a0 0000000200160006 00000000f5000000 ffff8881bb1a4301
head: 057ff00000000240 ffff8881042e0640 ffff88816fedf1c8 ffff88816fedf1c8
head: ffff8881bc3ce8a0 0000000200160006 00000000f5000000 ffff8881bb1a4301
head: 057ff00000000001 ffffffffffffff81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5678, tgid 5678 (kworker/u8:3), ts 57920184007
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x2209/0x2280 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x217/0x5a0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
refill_objects+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7410
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2c8/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x399/0x600 mm/slub.c:5010
inet_twsk_alloc+0xe3/0x8d0 net/ipv4/inet_timewait_sock.c:178
tcp_time_wait+0x5d/0xee0 net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c:333
tcp_rcv_state_process+0xba1/0x4980 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:-1
tcp_v6_do_rcv+0xf3d/0x1c70 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1653
tcp_v6_rcv+0x2496/0x2d90 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1906
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xab9/0x1680 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:479
ip6_input_finish+0x191/0x370 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:534
NF_HOOK+0x336/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
ip6_input+0x16a/0x270 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:545
page last free pid 24 tgid 24 ts 57909757259 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xc93/0xd90 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2650 [inline]
rcu_core+0x926/0x1260 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2919
handle_softirqs+0x226/0x860 kernel/softirq.c:645
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:519 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0xcb/0x220 kernel/softirq.c:767
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:784
instr_sysvec_call_function_single arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:267 [inline]
sysvec_call_function_single+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:267
asm_sysvec_call_function_single+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:681
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8881bc3ceb80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8881bc3cec00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8881bc3cec80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
ffff8881bc3ced00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff8881bc3ced80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
***
KASAN: use-after-free Read in tcp_v6_send_response
tree: net
URL: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git
base: 1d2929d0850fff683b8aff051275945e65f082c8
arch: amd64
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
config: https://ci.syzbot.org/builds/19ac2ebf-5913-40a0-982b-446415180382/config
syz repro: https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/e7a2188a-bd9d-4259-856a-ad2e7415f5e1/syz_repro
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in inet_sk_flowi_flags include/net/inet_sock.h:411 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tcp_v6_send_response+0x116c/0x1e30 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:983
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888169a4a248 by task syz.0.28/5835
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5835 Comm: syz.0.28 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
_test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
inet_sk_flowi_flags include/net/inet_sock.h:411 [inline]
tcp_v6_send_response+0x116c/0x1e30 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:983
tcp_v6_send_ack net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1149 [inline]
tcp_v6_timewait_ack+0x2c6/0x4c0 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1201
tcp_v6_rcv+0x1f09/0x2d90 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c:1993
ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xab9/0x1680 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:479
ip6_input_finish+0x191/0x370 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:534
NF_HOOK+0x336/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
ip6_input+0x16a/0x270 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:545
NF_HOOK+0x336/0x3c0 include/linux/netfilter.h:325
__netif_receive_skb_one_core net/core/dev.c:6264 [inline]
__netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:6377 [inline]
process_backlog+0x795/0x18b0 net/core/dev.c:6728
__napi_poll+0xaa/0x330 net/core/dev.c:7787
napi_poll net/core/dev.c:7850 [inline]
net_rx_action+0x61d/0xf50 net/core/dev.c:8007
handle_softirqs+0x226/0x860 kernel/softirq.c:645
do_softirq+0x77/0xd0 kernel/softirq.c:546
</IRQ>
<TASK>
__local_bh_enable_ip+0x100/0x140 kernel/softirq.c:473
local_bh_enable include/linux/bottom_half.h:33 [inline]
rcu_read_unlock_bh include/linux/rcupdate.h:923 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1edc/0x3820 net/core/dev.c:4961
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
ip6_output+0x337/0x540 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:248
dst_output include/net/dst.h:471 [inline]
NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:325 [inline]
ip6_xmit+0x117f/0x1a60 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:381
inet6_csk_xmit+0x397/0x660 net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c:123
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x2640/0x47c0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1717
tcp_transmit_skb net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1734 [inline]
tcp_write_xmit+0x1bfa/0x6400 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3062
__tcp_push_pending_frames+0x96/0x380 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3245
__tcp_close+0x56e/0xe70 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3220
tcp_close+0x28/0x110 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3311
inet_release+0x143/0x190 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:442
__sock_release+0xa0/0x1f0 net/socket.c:735
sock_close+0x1c/0x30 net/socket.c:1526
__fput+0x418/0xa50 fs/file_table.c:512
task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
__exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:70 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x204/0x770 kernel/entry/common.c:101
__exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:336 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x328/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fb1d8b9e159
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:00007ffef2a01168 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffef2a01250 RCX: 00007fb1d8b9e159
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000000000000d50a R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b31820000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffef2a01290
R13: 00007fb1d8e25fac R14: 000000000000d53d R15: 00007fb1d8e25fa0
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888169a4bc80 pfn:0x169a4a
flags: 0x57ff00000000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 057ff00000000000 ffffea0005c32488 ffffea0005c32508 0000000000000000
raw: ffff888169a4bc80 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5565, tgid 5565 (sshd), ts 40657811568
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x2209/0x2280 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x217/0x5a0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
refill_objects+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7410
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2c8/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x399/0x600 mm/slub.c:5010
skb_clone+0x212/0x3a0 net/core/skbuff.c:2119
dev_queue_xmit_nit+0x28d/0xac0 net/core/dev.c:2600
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3933 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1c1/0x830 net/core/dev.c:3953
sch_direct_xmit+0x257/0x4c0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:372
__dev_xmit_skb net/core/dev.c:4262 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x177f/0x3820 net/core/dev.c:4884
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3461 [inline]
neigh_hh_output include/net/neighbour.h:544 [inline]
neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:558 [inline]
ip_finish_output2+0xbda/0x10b0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:236
NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:314 [inline]
ip_output+0x29f/0x450 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:437
__ip_queue_xmit+0x10df/0x1b10 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:533
__tcp_transmit_skb+0x2d18/0x47c0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1717
page last free pid 5040 tgid 5040 ts 54399149504 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xc93/0xd90 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
__slab_free+0x274/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:5815
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x49f/0x820 mm/slub.c:7005
seq_buf_alloc fs/seq_file.c:39 [inline]
seq_read_iter+0x1ea/0xca0 fs/seq_file.c:211
new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:493 [inline]
vfs_read+0x595/0xa80 fs/read_write.c:574
ksys_read+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:716
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888169a4a100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff888169a4a180: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff888169a4a200: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
^
ffff888169a4a280: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
ffff888169a4a300: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================
***
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