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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/07/09 13:59
Subsystems: fs
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Reported-by: syzbot+1e1f9de12b2231befdaa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 25d, last: 13h45m
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver 19 1 12d 12d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2025/07/18 15:51
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver 19 3 7d01h 12d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/07/18 14:32

Sample crash report:
comedi comedi0: c6xdigio: I/O port conflict (0x7,3)
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sysfs_remove_file_ns+0x3d/0x70 fs/sysfs/file.c:522
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888032317a30 by task syz.1.2004/14008

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14008 Comm: syz.1.2004 Not tainted 6.16.0-syzkaller-02094-g86aa72182095 #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 sysfs_remove_file_ns+0x3d/0x70 fs/sysfs/file.c:522
 remove_bind_files drivers/base/bus.c:605 [inline]
 bus_remove_driver+0x198/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:743
 comedi_device_detach+0x137/0x720 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:207
 comedi_device_attach+0x568/0x670 drivers/comedi/drivers.c:1003
 do_devconfig_ioctl drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:855 [inline]
 comedi_unlocked_ioctl+0x686/0xfc0 drivers/comedi/comedi_fops.c:2156
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:598 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:584
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f17ec78e9a9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f17ec5d6038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f17ec9b6080 RCX: 00007f17ec78e9a9
RDX: 0000200000000540 RSI: 0000000040946400 RDI: 000000000000000a
RBP: 00007f17ec810d69 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f17ec9b6080 R15: 00007ffe9303b188
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 13774:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4328 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x27a/0x4f0 mm/slub.c:4340
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
 kmalloc_array_noprof include/linux/slab.h:948 [inline]
 iter_file_splice_write+0x1cb/0x1000 fs/splice.c:679
 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:935 [inline]
 direct_splice_actor+0x101/0x160 fs/splice.c:1158
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x5a8/0xcc0 fs/splice.c:1102
 do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1201 [inline]
 do_splice_direct+0x181/0x270 fs/splice.c:1227
 do_sendfile+0x4da/0x7e0 fs/read_write.c:1370
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1431 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64+0x13e/0x190 fs/read_write.c:1417
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 13774:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x62/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2381 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4643 [inline]
 kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4842
 iter_file_splice_write+0xe55/0x1000 fs/splice.c:767
 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:935 [inline]
 direct_splice_actor+0x101/0x160 fs/splice.c:1158
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x5a8/0xcc0 fs/splice.c:1102
 do_splice_direct_actor fs/splice.c:1201 [inline]
 do_splice_direct+0x181/0x270 fs/splice.c:1227
 do_sendfile+0x4da/0x7e0 fs/read_write.c:1370
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1431 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64+0x13e/0x190 fs/read_write.c:1417
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888032317a00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 48 bytes inside of
 freed 256-byte region [ffff888032317a00, ffff888032317b00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888032316400 pfn:0x32316
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801a441b40 ffffea0001e1b190 ffffea0000cb3c10
raw: ffff888032316400 000000000010000b 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88801a441b40 ffffea0001e1b190 ffffea0000cb3c10
head: ffff888032316400 000000000010000b 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000001 ffffea0000c8c581 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5841, tgid 5841 (syz-executor), ts 89497919780, free_ts 88932468549
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1704
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1712 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3669
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:4959
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2419
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2451 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x8a/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:2619
 new_slab mm/slub.c:2673 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xbfc/0x1480 mm/slub.c:3859
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3949 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4024 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4185 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4327 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x305/0x4f0 mm/slub.c:4340
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 new_dir fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:966 [inline]
 get_subdir fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1010 [inline]
 sysctl_mkdir_p fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1320 [inline]
 __register_sysctl_table+0xba1/0x1340 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1395
 __devinet_sysctl_register+0x37f/0x470 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2678
 devinet_sysctl_register+0x187/0x200 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2718
 inetdev_init+0x2b4/0x500 net/ipv4/devinet.c:291
 inetdev_event+0x301/0x15b0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1591
 notifier_call_chain+0x1b6/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x1608/0x1ae0 net/core/dev.c:11143
 ip6gre_newlink_common+0x3dd/0x590 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:1986
 ip6gre_newlink+0x228/0x360 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c:2019
page last free pid 5834 tgid 5834 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1248 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc71/0xe70 mm/page_alloc.c:2706
 __slab_free+0x326/0x400 mm/slub.c:4554
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x140 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:329
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4148 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1be/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4354
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 dropmon_net_event+0x221/0x2b0 net/core/drop_monitor.c:1586
 notifier_call_chain+0x1b6/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x1608/0x1ae0 net/core/dev.c:11143
 register_netdev+0x40/0x60 net/core/dev.c:11221
 loopback_net_init+0x75/0x150 drivers/net/loopback.c:218
 ops_init+0x35c/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:138
 setup_net+0x219/0x4b0 net/core/net_namespace.c:442
 copy_net_ns+0x31b/0x4d0 net/core/net_namespace.c:574
 create_new_namespaces+0x3f3/0x720 kernel/nsproxy.c:110
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x11c/0x170 kernel/nsproxy.c:218

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888032317900: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888032317980: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888032317a00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                     ^
 ffff888032317a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888032317b00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/07/30 05:52 upstream 86aa72182095 f8f2b4da .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver
2025/07/26 02:21 upstream 327579671a9b fb8f743d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver
2025/07/18 07:55 linux-next 024e09e444bd 0d1223f1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver
2025/07/05 18:54 linux-next 26ffb3d6f02c 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver
2025/07/05 13:53 linux-next 26ffb3d6f02c 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver
2025/07/05 13:53 linux-next 26ffb3d6f02c 4f67c4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.