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Now we see:\n\n    printk: console [netcon_ext0] enabled\n    BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in string+0x1f7/0x240\n    Read of size 1 at addr ffff88813b6d4c00 by task pr/netcon_ext0/594\n\n    CPU: 65 UID: 0 PID: 594 Comm: pr/netcon_ext0 Not tainted 6.19.0-11754-g4246fd6547c9\n    Call Trace:\n     kasan_report+0xe4/0x120\n     string+0x1f7/0x240\n     vsnprintf+0x655/0xba0\n     scnprintf+0xba/0x120\n     netconsole_write+0x3fe/0xa10\n     nbcon_emit_next_record+0x46e/0x860\n     nbcon_kthread_func+0x623/0x750\n\n    Allocated by task 1:\n     nbcon_alloc+0x1ea/0x450\n     register_console+0x26b/0xe10\n     init_netconsole+0xbb0/0xda0\n\n    The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813b6d4000\n                which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096\n    The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n                allocated 3072-byte region [ffff88813b6d4000, 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