In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: Fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions Reported by...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv6: Fix KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions Reported by syzbot: HEAD commit: 90c911ad Merge tag 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm.. git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=123aa35098fd3c000eb7 compiler: Debian clang version 11.0.1-2 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_get_excptn_bucket net/ipv6/route.c:1604 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fib6_nh_flush_exceptions+0xbd/0x360 net/ipv6/route.c:1732 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880145c78f8 by task syz-executor.4/17760 CPU: 0 PID: 17760 Comm: syz-executor.4 Not tainted 5.12.0-rc8-syzkaller #0 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:79 [inline] dump_stack+0x202/0x31e lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description+0x5f/0x3b0 mm/kasan/report.c:232 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:399 [inline] kasan_report+0x15c/0x200 mm/kasan/report.c:416 fib6_nh_get_excptn_bucket net/ipv6/route.c:1604 [inline] fib6_nh_flush_exceptions+0xbd/0x360 net/ipv6/route.c:1732 fib6_nh_release+0x9a/0x430 net/ipv6/route.c:3536 fib6_info_destroy_rcu+0xcb/0x1c0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:174 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2559 [inline] rcu_core+0x8f6/0x1450 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2794 __do_softirq+0x372/0x7a6 kernel/softirq.c:345 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:221…