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* [syzbot] [fbdev?] KASAN: global-out-of-bounds Read in soft_cursor (3)
@ 2026-08-07  0:01 syzbot
  0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: syzbot @ 2026-08-07  0:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: deller, dri-devel, linux-fbdev, linux-kernel, simona,
	syzkaller-bugs, tzimmermann

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.

Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/03cd82d06e64/disk-c2a9495b.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/bef502845f71/vmlinux-c2a9495b.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/e14ed9394125/Image-c2a9495b.gz.xz

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Reported-by: syzbot+61b1db46218109869c14@syzkaller.appspotmail.com

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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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