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Subject: [syzbot] [fbdev?] KASAN: global-out-of-bounds Read in soft_cursor (3)
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:01:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a75205c.01d0871a.3a0d52.0032.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: c2a9495bd873 Merge branch 'for-next/core' into for-kernelci
git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=123f2986580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=a4a42e870a0b0ae0
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=61b1db46218109869c14
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.6 (++20260514074242+fc4aad7b5db3-1~exp1~20260514074407.73), Debian LLD 22.1.6
userspace arch: arm64
Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
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BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in soft_cursor+0x378/0x6bc drivers/video/fbdev/core/softcursor.c:70
Read of size 16 at addr ffff800086c57970 by task syz.7.609/8216
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8216 Comm: syz.7.609 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
Call trace:
show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:499 (C)
__dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:94
dump_stack_lvl+0xd8/0x12c lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0xb0/0x238 mm/kasan/report.c:378
print_report+0x68/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x8c/0xc4 mm/kasan/report.c:595
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x17c/0x1ac mm/kasan/generic.c:200
__asan_memcpy+0x3c/0x84 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105
soft_cursor+0x378/0x6bc drivers/video/fbdev/core/softcursor.c:70
bit_cursor+0xa90/0x1108 drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c:365
fbcon_cursor+0x344/0x498 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:1427
hide_cursor+0xdc/0x2d0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:883
update_region+0x100/0x18c drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:669
vcs_write+0x8ec/0xaf0 drivers/tty/vt/vc_screen.c:685
do_loop_readv_writev+0x24c/0x3dc fs/read_write.c:-1
vfs_writev+0x2c8/0x630 fs/read_write.c:1061
do_writev+0x134/0x2a8 fs/read_write.c:1105
__do_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1173 [inline]
__se_sys_writev fs/read_write.c:1170 [inline]
__arm64_sys_writev+0x80/0x94 fs/read_write.c:1170
__invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]
invoke_syscall+0x98/0x244 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49
el0_svc_common+0xec/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:121
do_el0_svc+0x4c/0x5c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
el0_svc+0x64/0x260 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:736
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x48/0x148 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:755
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:594
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
fontdata_8x16+0x1010/0x1480
The buggy address belongs to a vmalloc virtual mapping
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x219857
flags: 0x5ffc00000002000(reserved|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 05ffc00000002000 fffffdffc76615c8 fffffdffc76615c8 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff800086c57800: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff800086c57880: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff800086c57900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9
^
ffff800086c57980: f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
ffff800086c57a00: f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
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