memory leak in vidtv_psi_pmt_create_sec_for_each_pat_entry

Status: upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/10/09 19:27
Subsystems: media
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+3bb39e30be6cca84a865@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d05h, last: 1d05h
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0e83f4a7 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ memory leak in vidtv_psi_pmt_create_sec_for_each_pat_entry 2026/10/08 20:03 2026/10/08 20:03 2026/10/08 20:34 723be09b
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[syzbot] [media?] memory leak in vidtv_psi_pmt_create_sec_for_each_pat_entry 0 (1) 2026/10/09 19:27

Sample crash report:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88812cf24108 (size 8):
  comm "syz.3.32", pid 6127, jiffies 4294946999
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                          ........
  backtrace (crc 0):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4696 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
    __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
    __kmalloc_noprof+0x3fb/0x540 mm/slub.c:5439
    _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
    _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
    vidtv_psi_pmt_create_sec_for_each_pat_entry+0x7d/0x1b0 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_psi.c:1471
    vidtv_channel_si_init+0x544/0x770 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_channel.c:478
    vidtv_mux_init+0x115/0x390 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:525
    vidtv_start_streaming drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:194 [inline]
    vidtv_start_feed+0x1d4/0x260 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:239
    dmx_ts_feed_start_filtering+0x8e/0x130 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c:747
    dvb_dmxdev_start_feed+0x11c/0x170 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:658
    dvb_dmxdev_filter_start+0xd8/0x440 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:769
    dvb_demux_do_ioctl+0x297/0x7d0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:1072
    dvb_usercopy+0x116/0x2d0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:996
    dvb_demux_ioctl+0x29/0x40 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:1208
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
    __x64_sys_ioctl+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xe9/0x530 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

connection error: failed to recv *flatrpc.ExecutorMessageRawT: EOF

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/08 20:03 upstream 7b63ef2d55f2 4f6a9fcf .config console log report syz / log [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-leak memory leak in vidtv_psi_pmt_create_sec_for_each_pat_entry
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.