Re: [syzbot] [dri?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in drm_gem_object_release_handle

syzbot
2026-04-14T00:36:05Z

Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in drm_gem_object_collect

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:252 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:283 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:366 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:383 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in drm_gem_object_get include/drm/drm_gem.h:558 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in drm_gem_object_collect+0x79/0x1d0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:1094
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88802be56000 by task syz.1.58/6660

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6660 Comm: syz.1.58 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:252 [inline]
__refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:283 [inline]
__refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:366 [inline]
refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:383 [inline]
kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
drm_gem_object_get include/drm/drm_gem.h:558 [inline]
drm_gem_object_collect+0x79/0x1d0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:1094
idr_for_each+0x1c6/0x2a0 lib/idr.c:210
drm_gem_release+0xe9/0x3c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:1116
drm_file_free+0x729/0xa00 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:261
drm_close_helper drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:290 [inline]
drm_release+0x2de/0x3f0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:438
__fput+0x44f/0xa60 fs/file_table.c:510
task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
__exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:67 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xed/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
__exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f805839c819
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc11639678 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffc11639760 RCX: 00007f805839c819
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000000000001e823 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b30420000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc116397a0
R13: 00007f805861609c R14: 000000000001e864 R15: 00007f8058616090
</TASK>

Allocated by task 6663:
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+0x31c/0x660 mm/slub.c:5380
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
__drm_gem_shmem_create+0xc4/0x2e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:130
drm_gem_shmem_create drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:157 [inline]
drm_gem_shmem_create_with_handle drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:460 [inline]
drm_gem_shmem_dumb_create+0x72/0x120 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:549
drm_mode_create_dumb drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.c:227 [inline]
drm_mode_create_dumb_ioctl+0x2bd/0x340 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.c:236
drm_ioctl_kernel+0x2df/0x3b0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:804
drm_ioctl+0x6ba/0xb80 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:901
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 6664:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 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:2685 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
kfree+0x1c1/0x630 mm/slub.c:6483
drm_gem_handle_delete+0x7b/0xb0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:413
drm_ioctl_kernel+0x2df/0x3b0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:804
drm_ioctl+0x6ba/0xb80 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:901
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802be56000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
freed 1024-byte region [ffff88802be56000, ffff88802be56400)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2be50
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 ffff88813fea7dc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fea7dc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0000af9401 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 0xd2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5933, tgid 5933 (syz-executor), ts 79731270511, free_ts 79726565820
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x24dc/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3292 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3481
new_slab mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
refill_objects+0x331/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7175
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2e6/0x730 mm/slub.c:4615
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4717 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4851 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x392/0x660 mm/slub.c:5375
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
batadv_hardif_add_interface net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:874 [inline]
batadv_hard_if_event+0xe7a/0x1700 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:958
notifier_call_chain+0x1be/0x400 kernel/notifier.c:85
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2287 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2301 [inline]
register_netdevice+0x173a/0x1cf0 net/core/dev.c:11479
team_newlink+0x120/0x170 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2226
rtnl_newlink_create+0x329/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3862
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3993 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x166a/0x1bb0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4108
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6994
netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
page last free pid 5933 tgid 5933 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xc2b/0xdb0 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
__slab_free+0x263/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:5573
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4538 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2ba/0x660 mm/slub.c:5375
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
ref_tracker_alloc+0x15a/0x4c0 lib/ref_tracker.c:270
__netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4436 [inline]
netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4465 [inline]
netdev_queue_add_kobject net/core/net-sysfs.c:1994 [inline]
netdev_queue_update_kobjects+0x1d1/0x6c0 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2056
register_queue_kobjects net/core/net-sysfs.c:2119 [inline]
netdev_register_kobject+0x258/0x310 net/core/net-sysfs.c:2362
register_netdevice+0x12c0/0x1cf0 net/core/dev.c:11441
bond_newlink+0x48/0xd0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c:601
rtnl_newlink_create+0x329/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3862
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3993 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x166a/0x1bb0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4108
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6994
netlink_rcv_skb+0x232/0x4b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x80f/0x9b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88802be55f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff88802be55f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88802be56000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88802be56080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88802be56100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Tested on:

commit: b8f82cb0 Merge tag 'landlock-7.1-rc1' of git://git.ker..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15003b02580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=6c5ea45f4cdebd8e
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b2e951687503f32f74ce
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8
patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=10413cd2580000