* [syzbot] [fs?] [driver-core?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in cdev_put
@ 2026-11-15 16:46 syzbot
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From: syzbot @ 2026-11-15 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dakr, driver-core, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, syzkaller-bugs
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syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 2800868f6322 Merge tag 'sound-7.4-rc3' of git://git.kernel..
git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1386fe4e580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=5c210800cfc8f61e
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=667788430769ef9ddf25
compiler: gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44
userspace arch: i386
C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=11c4cb69580000
AI-generated root cause summary:
In posix_clock_register() (kernel/time/posix-clock.c), clk->dev and
clk->cdev.owner are assigned only after cdev_device_add(&clk->cdev, dev)
returns. As soon as cdev_add() executes inside cdev_device_add(), the character
device is live and can be opened by userspace. If posix_clock_open() runs in
this window while clk->dev is still NULL, get_device(clk->dev) is a no-op and
fails to acquire a reference on the device. When the file is later closed,
posix_clock_release() calls put_device(clk->dev) on the now-initialized pointer,
causing an unbalanced reference drop that prematurely frees the struct
ptp_clock; subsequent invocation of cdev_put(inode->i_cdev) in __fput() then
accesses the freed memory, causing a slab use-after-free.
full analysis: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/ai_root_cause?x=667788430769ef9ddf25
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cdev_put fs/char_dev.c:363 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cdev_put+0x58/0x60 fs/char_dev.c:360
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888043a4a090 by task syz-executor804/6199
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 6199 Comm: syz-executor804 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
cdev_put fs/char_dev.c:363 [inline]
cdev_put+0x58/0x60 fs/char_dev.c:360
__fput+0x904/0xb50 fs/file_table.c:515
fput_close_sync+0x118/0x250 fs/file_table.c:618
filp_close_sync+0x75/0xa0 fs/open.c:1574
close_files fs/file.c:572 [inline]
put_files_struct fs/file.c:584 [inline]
put_files_struct+0x1f7/0x390 fs/file.c:581
switch_files_struct fs/file.c:598 [inline]
exit_files+0x85/0xb0 fs/file.c:604
do_exit+0x896/0x2a00 kernel/exit.c:977
do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1123
__do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1134 [inline]
__se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1132 [inline]
__ia32_sys_exit_group+0x3e/0x50 kernel/exit.c:1132
ia32_sys_call+0x1a39/0x1a40 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:253
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:79 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0x14d/0x8e0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:286
do_fast_syscall_32+0x32/0x70 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:311
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
RIP: 0023:0xf7e91fbc
Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xf7e91f92.
RSP: 002b:00000000f5e85688 EFLAGS: 00000292 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000fc
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00000000ffffffe8
RDX: 00000000000000fc RSI: 00000000f5e856d0 RDI: 00000000f5e856d0
RBP: 00000000f5e856d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
Allocated by task 6126:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:409 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:426
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2f8/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5680
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
ptp_clock_register+0x187/0x1780 drivers/ptp/ptp_clock.c:343
ptp_vclock_register+0x51f/0xa10 drivers/ptp/ptp_vclock.c:256
n_vclocks_store+0x1b1/0x600 drivers/ptp/ptp_sysfs.c:230
dev_attr_store+0x58/0x80 drivers/base/core.c:2509
sysfs_kf_write+0xf2/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e0/0x5f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:575 [inline]
vfs_write+0x6af/0x1040 fs/read_write.c:667
ksys_pwrite64+0x113/0x230 fs/read_write.c:774
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:79 [inline]
do_int80_emulation+0x16a/0x670 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:170
asm_int80_emulation+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:598
Freed by task 6199:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:264 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:296
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2780 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6630 [inline]
kfree+0x22b/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6923
device_release+0xd2/0x270 drivers/base/core.c:2640
kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
kobject_put+0x1f7/0x640 lib/kobject.c:737
put_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:3886
posix_clock_release+0xd5/0x150 kernel/time/posix-clock.c:142
__fput+0x3fb/0xb50 fs/file_table.c:512
fput_close_sync+0x118/0x250 fs/file_table.c:618
filp_close_sync+0x75/0xa0 fs/open.c:1574
close_files fs/file.c:572 [inline]
put_files_struct fs/file.c:584 [inline]
put_files_struct+0x1f7/0x390 fs/file.c:581
switch_files_struct fs/file.c:598 [inline]
exit_files+0x85/0xb0 fs/file.c:604
do_exit+0x896/0x2a00 kernel/exit.c:977
do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1123
__do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1134 [inline]
__se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1132 [inline]
__ia32_sys_exit_group+0x3e/0x50 kernel/exit.c:1132
ia32_sys_call+0x1a39/0x1a40 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:253
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:79 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0x14d/0x8e0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:286
do_fast_syscall_32+0x32/0x70 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:311
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888043a4a000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 144 bytes inside of
freed 4096-byte region [ffff888043a4a000, ffff888043a4b000)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x43a48
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x4fff00000000040(head|node=1|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 04fff00000000040 ffff88801d443040 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 04fff00000000040 ffff88801d443040 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 04fff00000000003 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 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 6143, tgid 6143 (udevd), ts 68631299502
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1860
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1868 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0xdae/0x2c80 mm/page_alloc.c:3950
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2ad/0x31e0 mm/page_alloc.c:5492
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3384 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3499 [inline]
new_slab+0xb1/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:3550
refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7539
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2917 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4811
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4887 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5021 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5530 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x677/0x840 mm/slub.c:5556
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xb6/0x690 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
tomoyo_path_perm+0x276/0x460 security/tomoyo/file.c:827
tomoyo_path_unlink+0x91/0xe0 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:162
security_path_unlink+0x145/0x2b0 security/security.c:1498
filename_unlinkat+0x316/0x770 fs/namei.c:5734
__do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5772 [inline]
__se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5769 [inline]
__x64_sys_unlink+0x46/0x70 fs/namei.c:5769
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x123/0x780 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 5200 tgid 5200 ts 68611259383 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1402 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0x7b1/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2958
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:361
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4720 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5033 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x265/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:5066
shmem_alloc_inode+0x25/0x50 mm/shmem.c:5374
alloc_inode+0x68/0x250 fs/inode.c:338
new_inode+0x22/0x1c0 fs/inode.c:1192
__shmem_get_inode mm/shmem.c:3285 [inline]
shmem_get_inode+0x1e3/0xff0 mm/shmem.c:3361
shmem_mknod+0x217/0x480 mm/shmem.c:4072
lookup_open+0xd8a/0x19e0 fs/namei.c:4575
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4774 [inline]
path_openat+0xe75/0x23f0 fs/namei.c:5013
do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:5045
do_sys_openat2+0x163/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1443
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1449 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1465 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1460 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x12d/0x210 fs/open.c:1460
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x123/0x780 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888043a49f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888043a4a000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888043a4a080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888043a4a100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888043a4a180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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