Hello, syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer still triggered crash: KASAN: use-after-free Read in l2tp_tunnel_del_work ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x22e/0x240 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1292 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8801a66b2960 by task kworker/u4:0/5 CPU: 0 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Not tainted 4.15.0+ #33 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue: l2tp l2tp_tunnel_del_work Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline] dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:53 print_address_description+0x73/0x250 mm/kasan/report.c:252 kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline] kasan_report+0x25b/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:409 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:430 l2tp_tunnel_del_work+0x22e/0x240 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1292 process_one_work+0xbbf/0x1af0 kernel/workqueue.c:2113 worker_thread+0x223/0x1990 kernel/workqueue.c:2247 kthread+0x33c/0x400 kernel/kthread.c:238 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:542 Allocated by task 24128: save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447 set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459 [inline] kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:551 kasan_slab_alloc+0x12/0x20 mm/kasan/kasan.c:489 kmem_cache_alloc+0x12e/0x760 mm/slab.c:3541 sock_alloc_inode+0x70/0x300 net/socket.c:244 alloc_inode+0x65/0x180 fs/inode.c:209 new_inode_pseudo+0x69/0x190 fs/inode.c:891 sock_alloc+0x41/0x270 net/socket.c:565 __sock_create+0x148/0x850 net/socket.c:1249 sock_create net/socket.c:1325 [inline] SYSC_socket net/socket.c:1355 [inline] SyS_socket+0xeb/0x1d0 net/socket.c:1335 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x29/0xa0 Freed by task 24136: save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447 set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459 [inline] kasan_slab_free+0x71/0xc0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:524 __cache_free mm/slab.c:3485 [inline] kmem_cache_free+0x83/0x2a0 mm/slab.c:3743 sock_destroy_inode+0x56/0x70 net/socket.c:274 destroy_inode+0x15d/0x200 fs/inode.c:266 evict+0x57e/0x920 fs/inode.c:571 iput_final fs/inode.c:1516 [inline] iput+0x7b9/0xaf0 fs/inode.c:1543 dentry_unlink_inode+0x4b0/0x5e0 fs/dcache.c:371 __dentry_kill+0x3de/0x700 fs/dcache.c:575 dentry_kill fs/dcache.c:616 [inline] dput.part.21+0x6fb/0x830 fs/dcache.c:826 dput+0x1f/0x30 fs/dcache.c:790 __fput+0x51c/0x7e0 fs/file_table.c:227 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:243 task_work_run+0x199/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:113 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:22 [inline] do_exit+0x9bb/0x1ad0 kernel/exit.c:865 do_group_exit+0x149/0x400 kernel/exit.c:968 get_signal+0x73a/0x16d0 kernel/signal.c:2469 do_signal+0x90/0x1eb0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:809 exit_to_usermode_loop+0x258/0x2f0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:161 prepare_exit_to_usermode arch/x86/entry/common.c:195 [inline] syscall_return_slowpath+0x490/0x550 arch/x86/entry/common.c:264 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x9e/0xa0 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8801a66b2940 which belongs to the cache sock_inode_cache of size 992 The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of 992-byte region [ffff8801a66b2940, ffff8801a66b2d20) The buggy address belongs to the page: page:ffffea000699ac80 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8801a66b2040 index:0xffff8801a66b2ffd flags: 0x2fffc0000000100(slab) raw: 02fffc0000000100 ffff8801a66b2040 ffff8801a66b2ffd 0000000100000003 raw: ffffea000699a760 ffffea000699ad20 ffff8801d980e9c0 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff8801a66b2800: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff8801a66b2880: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc > ffff8801a66b2900: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff8801a66b2980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff8801a66b2a00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ================================================================== Tested on https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/master commit 617aebe6a97efa539cc4b8a52adccd89596e6be0 (Sun Feb 4 00:25:42 2018 +0000) Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620 Patch is attached. Kernel config is attached. Raw console output is attached.