[syzbot] [wireguard?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in enqueue_timer

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Tue May 23 16:47:36 UTC 2023


On Tue, 23 May 2023 18:42:53 +0200 Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > It should, no idea why it isn't. Looking thru the code now I don't see
> > any obvious gaps where timer object is on a list but not active :S
> > There's no way to get a vmcore from syzbot, right? :)
> >
> > Also I thought the shutdown leads to a warning when someone tries to
> > schedule the dead timer but in fact add_timer() just exits cleanly.
> > So the shutdown won't help us find the culprit :(  
> 
> Worth noting that it could also be caused by adding to a dead timer
> anywhere in priv_data of another netdev, not just the sole timer_list
> in net_device.

Oh, I thought you zero'ed in on the watchdog based on offsets.
Still, object debug should track all timers in the slab and complain
on the free path.


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