Hello, I've got the following crash while running syzkaller fuzzer on net-next/8d70eeb84ab277377c017af6a21d0a337025dede:
kasan: GPF could be caused by NULL-ptr deref or user memory access general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 883 Comm: kauditd Not tainted 4.10.0+ #6 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 task: ffff8801d79f0240 task.stack: ffff8801d7a20000 RIP: 0010:sock_sndtimeo include/net/sock.h:2162 [inline] RIP: 0010:netlink_unicast+0xdd/0x730 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1249 RSP: 0018:ffff8801d7a27c38 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: 0000000000000056 RBX: ffff8801d7a27cd0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00000000000002b0 RBP: ffff8801d7a27cf8 R08: ffffed00385cf286 R09: ffffed00385cf286 R10: 0000000000000006 R11: ffffed00385cf285 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8801c2fc3c80 R15: 00000000014000c0 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8801dbe00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000020cfd000 CR3: 00000001c758f000 CR4: 00000000001406f0 Call Trace: kauditd_send_unicast_skb+0x3c/0x70 kernel/audit.c:482 kauditd_thread+0x174/0xb00 kernel/audit.c:599 kthread+0x326/0x3f0 kernel/kthread.c:229 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430 Code: 44 89 fe e8 56 15 ff ff 8b 8d 70 ff ff ff 49 89 c6 31 c0 85 c9 75 27 e8 b2 b2 f4 fd 49 8d bc 24 b0 02 00 00 48 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 0f 85 37 06 00 00 49 8b 84 24 b0 02 00 00 4c 8d RIP: sock_sndtimeo include/net/sock.h:2162 [inline] RSP: ffff8801d7a27c38 RIP: netlink_unicast+0xdd/0x730 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1249 RSP: ffff8801d7a27c38 ---[ end trace ad1bba9d457430b6 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception This is not reproducible and seems to be caused by an elusive race. However, looking at the code I don't see any proper protection of audit_sock (other than the if (!audit_pid) which is obviously not enough to protect against races).
