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KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (4)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/07/04 04:13
Reported-by: syzbot+1d6919f93241262dc4b0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d03h, last: 1d03h
Similar bugs (8)
Kernel Title Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (2) 1 290d 290d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/27 00:19
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (3) 1 145d 145d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/21 00:47
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room serial 12 1035d 1293d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/01 23:03
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room 4 82d 213d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2024/12/03 11:12
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room 1 624d 624d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/27 09:51
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in tty_write_room serial syz error 6 738d 795d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/05 13:52
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (2) serial syz error error 185 1d21h 535d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/01/16 15:06
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in tty_write_room serial 1 636d 632d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/09 18:18

Sample crash report:
ieee802154 phy0 wpan0: encryption failed: -22
ieee802154 phy1 wpan1: encryption failed: -22
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tty_write_room+0x3c/0x8c drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:78
Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000c1680018 by task aoe_tx0/2056

CPU: 0 PID: 2056 Comm: aoe_tx0 Not tainted 5.15.186-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x43c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:152
 show_stack+0x2c/0x3c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:216
 __dump_stack+0x30/0x40 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0xf8/0x160 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x78/0x30c mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xec/0x15c mm/kasan/report.c:451
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x44/0x50 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:309
 tty_write_room+0x3c/0x8c drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:78
 handle_tx+0x12c/0x644 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:226
 caif_xmit+0x10c/0x160 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:282
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5027 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5041 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3649 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2a8/0x87c net/core/dev.c:3665
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x12d8/0x2800 net/core/dev.c:4288
 dev_queue_xmit+0x24/0x34 net/core/dev.c:4321
 tx+0x94/0x1cc drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:63
 kthread+0x160/0x330 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1238
 kthread+0x374/0x454 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:855

Allocated by task 4515:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb0/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:264 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x274/0x3fc mm/slub.c:3247
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:735 [inline]
 alloc_tty_struct+0xb4/0x684 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3127
 tty_init_dev+0x60/0x41c drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1424
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2100 [inline]
 tty_open+0x6f4/0xba8 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2148
 chrdev_open+0x26c/0x4f0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x760/0xebc fs/open.c:826
 vfs_open+0x7c/0x90 fs/open.c:956
 do_open fs/namei.c:3608 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1f80/0x26e4 fs/namei.c:3742
 do_filp_open+0x164/0x330 fs/namei.c:3769
 do_sys_openat2+0x128/0x3d8 fs/open.c:1253
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1269 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1285 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1280 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_openat+0x120/0x154 fs/open.c:1280
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
 el0_svc_common+0x138/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:142
 do_el0_svc+0x58/0x14c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:181
 el0_svc+0x78/0x1e0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:608
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:626
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:584

Freed by task 4095:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4c/0x84 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x28/0x4c mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x118/0x164 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 __kasan_slab_free+0x18/0x28 mm/kasan/common.c:374
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1705 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x128/0x1e8 mm/slub.c:1731
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3499 [inline]
 kfree+0x170/0x40c mm/slub.c:4559
 free_tty_struct drivers/tty/tty_io.c:175 [inline]
 release_one_tty+0x244/0x29c drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1558
 process_one_work+0x79c/0x1140 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0x8f4/0x101c kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x374/0x454 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:855

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x38/0x68 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xcc/0x114 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 insert_work+0x64/0x388 kernel/workqueue.c:1366
 __queue_work+0xb30/0x1054 kernel/workqueue.c:1532
 queue_work_on+0xc4/0x17c kernel/workqueue.c:1559
 queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:512 [inline]
 schedule_work include/linux/workqueue.h:573 [inline]
 queue_release_one_tty drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1569 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 tty_kref_put+0x150/0x1d0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1583
 release_tty+0x3e8/0x4a4 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1620
 tty_release_struct+0xb4/0xd4 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1719
 tty_release+0xa9c/0x132c drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1880
 __fput+0x1c0/0x7f8 fs/file_table.c:311
 ____fput+0x20/0x30 fs/file_table.c:339
 task_work_run+0x12c/0x1e0 kernel/task_work.c:188
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:33 [inline]
 do_exit+0x684/0x1f58 kernel/exit.c:883
 do_group_exit+0x100/0x268 kernel/exit.c:997
 get_signal+0x73c/0x1340 kernel/signal.c:2900
 do_signal arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:893 [inline]
 do_notify_resume+0x35c/0x3128 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c:946
 prepare_exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:133 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:138 [inline]
 el0_svc+0xf0/0x1e0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:609
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xcc/0xe4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:626
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:584

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff0000c1680000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 24 bytes inside of
 2048-byte region [ffff0000c1680000, ffff0000c1680800)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:00000000001c36ac refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff0000c1687000 pfn:0x101680
head:00000000001c36ac order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x5ffc00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 05ffc00000010200 fffffc000368e608 fffffc0003581c08 ffff0000c0002900
raw: ffff0000c1687000 0000000000080004 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff0000c167ff00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff0000c167ff80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff0000c1680000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff0000c1680080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff0000c1680100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/04 04:13 linux-5.15.y 3dea0e7f549e 76ad128c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-arm64 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.