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Subject: [syzbot] [fs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:25:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a74a76d.ec7c9571.3ac9bb.0056.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 848acc8ffe1b Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.k..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=144f9bb9580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=4e38b15c29e6a1d9
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=302b9b575a06733ff60c
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
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==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:648 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in string+0x216/0x2d0 lib/vsprintf.c:730
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888051fda758 by task udevd/7464
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7464 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:648 [inline]
string+0x216/0x2d0 lib/vsprintf.c:730
vsnprintf+0x74a/0xef0 lib/vsprintf.c:2945
vscnprintf+0x41/0x90 lib/vsprintf.c:3014
sysfs_emit+0x10e/0x180 fs/sysfs/file.c:761
input_dev_show_name+0x58/0x70 drivers/input/input.c:1282
dev_attr_show+0x58/0xc0 drivers/base/core.c:2487
sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x331/0x490 fs/sysfs/file.c:65
seq_read_iter+0x463/0xca0 fs/seq_file.c:231
new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:493 [inline]
vfs_read+0x595/0xa80 fs/read_write.c:574
ksys_read+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:716
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe991ca7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffc9989ac00 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe9924aa880 RCX: 00007fe991ca7407
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffc9989b0e0 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000562578d85a20
R13: 00007ffc9989ace0 R14: 00007ffc9989b0e0 R15: 0000562548648bcc
</TASK>
Allocated by task 10:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x32d/0x660 mm/slub.c:5489
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
redrat3_dev_probe+0x477/0x2570 drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:1023
usb_probe_interface+0x653/0xc60 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
__device_attach+0x2c4/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3772
usb_set_configuration+0x1ad8/0x2180 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
usb_probe_device+0x1c3/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
__device_attach+0x2c4/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3772
usb_new_device+0x99d/0x1620 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
hub_event+0x28e8/0x4d30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
Freed by task 10:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2677 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6377 [inline]
kfree+0x1c5/0x640 mm/slub.c:6692
redrat3_delete drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:466 [inline]
redrat3_dev_probe+0x1bf4/0x2570 drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:1124
usb_probe_interface+0x653/0xc60 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
__device_attach+0x2c4/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3772
usb_set_configuration+0x1ad8/0x2180 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
usb_probe_device+0x1c3/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
__device_attach+0x2c4/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3772
usb_new_device+0x99d/0x1620 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
hub_event+0x28e8/0x4d30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888051fda000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1880 bytes inside of
freed 2048-byte region [ffff888051fda000, ffff888051fda800)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x51fd8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b002000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b002000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1094, tgid 1094 (kworker/u8:7), ts 96851722653, free_ts 25791140797
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x21fa/0x2270 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x79/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:3380
new_slab mm/slub.c:3426 [inline]
refill_objects+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7310
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2bf/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:4675
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5333 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x557/0x730 mm/slub.c:5471
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:637 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x2bd/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:715
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
mld_newpack+0x165/0xcb0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1789
add_grhead net/ipv6/mcast.c:1900 [inline]
add_grec+0x119f/0x19d0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2039
mld_send_initial_cr+0x288/0x550 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2284
ipv6_mc_dad_complete+0x87/0x410 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2295
addrconf_dad_completed+0x8af/0xe60 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4375
addrconf_dad_work+0xcf8/0x15c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
page last free pid 1 tgid 1 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
free_pages_prepare+0x960/0xa60 mm/page_alloc.c:1451
__free_contig_range_common+0x174/0x340 mm/page_alloc.c:6897
destroy_args+0x4e5/0x570 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:993
debug_vm_pgtable+0x3f8/0x410 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1368
do_one_initcall+0x250/0x870 init/main.c:1347
do_initcall_level+0x10a/0x1a0 init/main.c:1409
do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0 init/main.c:1425
kernel_init_freeable+0x29d/0x3e0 init/main.c:1658
kernel_init+0x1d/0x1d0 init/main.c:1548
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888051fda600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888051fda680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888051fda700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888051fda780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888051fda800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
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