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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/11 03:17
Subsystems: media dri
Labels: actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+7f4987d0afb97dd090cb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 25d, last: 2d19h
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05c08db1-4dfa-4983-a7d1-c462f404046e moderation Actionable: ✅  Confident: ✅  KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd 2026/03/10 14:15 2026/03/10 14:15 2026/03/10 14:38 d16aa12f36812fd3c4bc5f61111b6678f99f6b6e+
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[syzbot] [media?] [dri?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd 0 (1) 2026/03/11 03:17

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888052fa2068 by task syz.5.13611/5008

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5008 Comm: syz.5.13611 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
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
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:574
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x79/0x2e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xbf/0x8b0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1417
 spin_unlock include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:109 [inline]
 class_spinlock_destructor include/linux/spinlock.h:586 [inline]
 dma_buf_fd+0x189/0x370 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c:796
 udmabuf_create+0xf26/0xfe0 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:453
 udmabuf_ioctl_create drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:484 [inline]
 udmabuf_ioctl+0x1f6/0x310 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:515
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xff/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
RIP: 0033:0x7f42fa78c799
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:00007f42f89a4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f42faa06180 RCX: 00007f42fa78c799
RDX: 0000200000000000 RSI: 0000000040187542 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f42fa822c99 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f42faa06218 R14: 00007f42faa06180 R15: 00007ffc7d0a7d28
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5008:
 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]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x3e7/0x7b0 mm/slub.c:5272
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 dma_buf_export+0x3ba/0xb10 drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c:739
 export_udmabuf drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:320 [inline]
 udmabuf_create+0xee5/0xfe0 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:442
 udmabuf_ioctl_create drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:484 [inline]
 udmabuf_ioctl+0x1f6/0x310 drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c:515
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xff/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 5009:
 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+0x1c1/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6483
 __dentry_kill+0x211/0x5e0 fs/dcache.c:675
 finish_dput+0xc9/0x480 fs/dcache.c:879
 __fput+0x6a3/0xa90 fs/file_table.c:477
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888052fa2000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 104 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff888052fa2000, ffff888052fa2400)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888052fa0000 pfn:0x52fa0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000240 ffff88813fe19dc0 ffffea0001885810 ffffea00014e7a10
raw: ffff888052fa0000 000000080010000e 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000240 ffff88813fe19dc0 ffffea0001885810 ffffea00014e7a10
head: ffff888052fa0000 000000080010000e 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 ffffea00014be801 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 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 116, tgid 116 (kworker/u8:5), ts 1156338468723, free_ts 1147246473203
 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+0x28bb/0x2950 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+0x334/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35c/0x710 mm/slub.c:4615
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4717 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4851 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5259 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x530/0x7b0 mm/slub.c:5272
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 ieee802_11_parse_elems_full+0x159/0x2ab0 net/mac80211/parse.c:1051
 ieee802_11_parse_elems net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:2480 [inline]
 ieee80211_inform_bss+0x161/0x1160 net/mac80211/scan.c:79
 rdev_inform_bss net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:418 [inline]
 cfg80211_inform_single_bss_data+0xd2f/0x1bd0 net/wireless/scan.c:2372
 cfg80211_inform_bss_data+0x266/0x3c40 net/wireless/scan.c:3226
 cfg80211_inform_bss_frame_data+0x3c7/0x760 net/wireless/scan.c:3317
 ieee80211_bss_info_update+0x794/0xa40 net/mac80211/scan.c:230
 ieee80211_rx_bss_info net/mac80211/ibss.c:1094 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_beacon net/mac80211/ibss.c:1575 [inline]
 ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt+0x1901/0x2cd0 net/mac80211/ibss.c:1602
 ieee80211_iface_process_skb net/mac80211/iface.c:1748 [inline]
 ieee80211_iface_work+0x84e/0x1340 net/mac80211/iface.c:1802
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x2ab/0x4a0 net/wireless/core.c:440
page last free pid 4422 tgid 4415 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xfe3/0x1170 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
 vfree+0x2ac/0x470 mm/vmalloc.c:3479
 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:442 [inline]
 kcov_close+0x2e/0x60 kernel/kcov.c:543
 __fput+0x461/0xa90 fs/file_table.c:469
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x70f/0x23c0 kernel/exit.c:976
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1118
 get_signal+0x125c/0x1310 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbc/0x830 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x86/0x480 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888052fa1f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888052fa1f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888052fa2000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                          ^
 ffff888052fa2080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888052fa2100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (8):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/26 16:24 upstream 0138af2472df fca8d360 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd
2026/03/26 02:05 upstream d2a43e7f89da c6143aac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd
2026/03/25 07:27 upstream bbeb83d3182a 35e4ff71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd
2026/03/23 16:30 upstream c369299895a5 5e3db351 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd
2026/03/23 16:29 upstream c369299895a5 5e3db351 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd
2026/03/06 11:54 upstream 5ee8dbf54602 31e9c887 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd
2026/03/04 07:19 upstream 0031c06807cf 4180d919 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd
2026/03/19 15:57 upstream 8a30aeb0d1b4 bd6dcb30 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dma_buf_fd
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.