Hi, I've got the following error report while fuzzing the kernel with syzkaller.
On commit 5a7ad1146caa895ad718a534399e38bd2ba721b7 (4.11-rc8). Unfortunately it's not reproducible. I'm not sure whether is is an issue with rcu or ipv6. ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __call_rcu.constprop.77+0x13be/0x1640 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3269 at addr ffff88003b842280 Write of size 8 by task kworker/u10:1/180 CPU: 2 PID: 180 Comm: kworker/u10:1 Not tainted 4.11.0-rc8+ #270 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Workqueue: events_unbound call_usermodehelper_exec_work Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline] dump_stack+0x192/0x22d lib/dump_stack.c:52 kasan_object_err+0x1c/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:164 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:202 [inline] kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:291 [inline] kasan_report+0x252/0x510 mm/kasan/report.c:347 __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x17/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:373 __call_rcu.constprop.77+0x13be/0x1640 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3269 call_rcu_sched+0x12/0x20 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3288 free_pid+0x446/0x5d0 kernel/pid.c:293 __change_pid+0x2a1/0x3d0 kernel/pid.c:411 detach_pid+0x1f/0x30 kernel/pid.c:416 __unhash_process kernel/exit.c:74 [inline] __exit_signal kernel/exit.c:155 [inline] release_task+0xbb0/0x1d90 kernel/exit.c:199 wait_task_zombie kernel/exit.c:1230 [inline] wait_consider_task+0x11fe/0x3410 kernel/exit.c:1458 do_wait_thread kernel/exit.c:1521 [inline] do_wait+0x3ea/0x8e0 kernel/exit.c:1592 SYSC_wait4 kernel/exit.c:1720 [inline] SyS_wait4+0x208/0x340 kernel/exit.c:1689 call_usermodehelper_exec_sync kernel/kmod.c:292 [inline] call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0x1a7/0x2b0 kernel/kmod.c:329 process_one_work+0x9f7/0x1580 kernel/workqueue.c:2097 worker_thread+0x1df/0x14b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2231 kthread+0x31f/0x3f0 kernel/kthread.c:231 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430 Object at ffff88003b842018, in cache kmalloc-1024 size: 1024 Allocated: PID = 1 save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59 save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:513 set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:525 [inline] kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:616 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x61/0x170 mm/slub.c:2745 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:490 [inline] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:663 [inline] ipv6_add_dev+0x199/0x1380 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:380 addrconf_init+0xd0/0x29a net/ipv6/addrconf.c:6405 inet6_init+0x2f6/0x584 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:962 do_one_initcall+0xf3/0x380 init/main.c:792 do_initcall_level init/main.c:858 [inline] do_initcalls init/main.c:866 [inline] do_basic_setup init/main.c:884 [inline] kernel_init_freeable+0x54d/0x622 init/main.c:1035 kernel_init+0x13/0x180 init/main.c:959 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430 Freed: PID = 6479 save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59 save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:513 set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:525 [inline] kasan_slab_free+0x73/0xc0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:589 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1357 [inline] slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1379 [inline] slab_free mm/slub.c:2961 [inline] kfree+0x91/0x190 mm/slub.c:3882 in6_dev_finish_destroy_rcu+0x97/0xc0 net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c:150 __rcu_reclaim kernel/rcu/rcu.h:118 [inline] rcu_do_batch.isra.65+0x6de/0xbd0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2879 invoke_rcu_callbacks kernel/rcu/tree.c:3142 [inline] __rcu_process_callbacks kernel/rcu/tree.c:3109 [inline] rcu_process_callbacks+0x23f/0x810 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3126 __do_softirq+0x253/0x78b kernel/softirq.c:284 Memory state around the buggy address: ffff88003b842180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff88003b842200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb >ffff88003b842280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff88003b842300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff88003b842380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ==================================================================