[syzbot] [net?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in xfrm_state_fini

From: syzbot

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 17:17:52 EST


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syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit: a90ee4305c4a Linux 7.3-rc6
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=10f60ff5580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=929e4854a828f434
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f3f4fce0609f8e91b540
compiler: gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44

Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in hlist_empty include/linux/list.h:1037 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in xfrm_state_fini+0x3f5/0x450 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:3402
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802c88f300 by task kworker/u32:4/5832

CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 5832 Comm: kworker/u32:4 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
hlist_empty include/linux/list.h:1037 [inline]
xfrm_state_fini+0x3f5/0x450 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:3402
xfrm_net_exit+0x2d/0x70 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:4369
ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:200 [inline]
ops_undo_list+0x2ee/0xab0 net/core/net_namespace.c:253
cleanup_net+0x499/0x920 net/core/net_namespace.c:706
process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline]
worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>

Allocated by task 6654:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:409 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:426
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5414 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x32f/0x840 mm/slub.c:5439
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
xfrm_hash_alloc+0xcf/0x100 net/xfrm/xfrm_hash.c:21
xfrm_state_init+0x15f/0x570 net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c:3358
xfrm_net_init+0x20e/0xcf0 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:4336
ops_init+0x1e2/0x5f0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137
setup_net+0x118/0x3a0 net/core/net_namespace.c:443
copy_net_ns+0x345/0x7a0 net/core/net_namespace.c:582
create_new_namespaces+0x3ea/0xac0 kernel/nsproxy.c:132
copy_namespaces+0x468/0x5e0 kernel/nsproxy.c:195
copy_process+0x395c/0x8380 kernel/fork.c:2314
kernel_clone+0x176/0x9d0 kernel/fork.c:2771
__do_sys_clone+0xd9/0x120 kernel/fork.c:2913
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5739:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:264 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:296
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2748 [inline]
__rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0x5d/0x300 mm/slub.c:3009
rcu_free_sheaf+0x1a/0xe0 mm/slub.c:6061
rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2650 [inline]
rcu_core+0x5f0/0x1260 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2919
handle_softirqs+0x1e6/0x9d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:519 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x16a/0x210 kernel/softirq.c:758
irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:775
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802c88f300
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-64 of size 64
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
freed 64-byte region [ffff88802c88f300, ffff88802c88f340)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2c88f
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88801c0428c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000200020 00000000f5000000 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 0xd2c40(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5143, tgid 5143 (udevd), ts 19750388551
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x110d/0x35d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2eb/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3462 [inline]
new_slab+0xa9/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:3513
refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7418
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x67c/0x840 mm/slub.c:5439
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
tomoyo_encode2+0xfb/0x3c0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:45
tomoyo_encode+0x29/0x50 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:80
tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x18c/0x690 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:283
tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x2af/0x3c0 security/tomoyo/file.c:776
tomoyo_file_open+0x6b/0x90 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:334
security_file_open+0xb5/0x1e0 security/security.c:2739
do_dentry_open+0x588/0x14d0 fs/open.c:973
vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1101
do_open fs/namei.c:4837 [inline]
path_openat+0x19fa/0x2440 fs/namei.c:5000
page last free pid 5160 tgid 5160 ts 19738479149 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:361
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]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x2cc/0x840 mm/slub.c:5439
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
tomoyo_encode2+0xfb/0x3c0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:45
tomoyo_encode+0x29/0x50 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:80
tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x18c/0x690 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:283
tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x2af/0x3c0 security/tomoyo/file.c:776
tomoyo_file_open+0x6b/0x90 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:334
security_file_open+0xb5/0x1e0 security/security.c:2739
do_dentry_open+0x588/0x14d0 fs/open.c:973
vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1101
do_open fs/namei.c:4837 [inline]
path_openat+0x19fa/0x2440 fs/namei.c:5000
do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:5029
do_sys_openat2+0x10f/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1417

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88802c88f200: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff88802c88f280: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88802c88f300: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
ffff88802c88f380: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff88802c88f400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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