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KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/26 08:31
Subsystems: serial
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Reported-by: syzbot+8e9c1abac3ceb45abffe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 89d, last: 17d
Discussions (3)
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[syzbot] Monthly serial report (Apr 2026) 0 (1) 2026/04/01 13:14
[syzbot] Monthly serial report (Mar 2026) 0 (1) 2026/03/03 08:07
[syzbot] [serial?] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write (3) 0 (1) 2026/02/26 08:31
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write (2) serial 21 6 208d 212d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/19 08:09
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write serial 21 4 345d 423d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/04 16:13

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in vc_con_write_normal drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3135 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in do_con_write+0x386f/0x8540 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3226
Write of size 2 at addr ffff888059457f60 by task syz.4.3141/19303

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 19303 Comm: syz.4.3141 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x156/0x4c9 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 vc_con_write_normal drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3135 [inline]
 do_con_write+0x386f/0x8540 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3226
 con_write+0x23/0xb0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3558
 process_output_block drivers/tty/n_tty.c:557 [inline]
 n_tty_write+0x44f/0x12d0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2366
 iterate_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1006 [inline]
 file_tty_write.isra.0+0x4d2/0x890 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1081
 tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1102 [inline]
 redirected_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1125 [inline]
 redirected_tty_write+0xd4/0x120 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1105
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x6ac/0x1070 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x106/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fa9a019c799
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:00007fa9a10c6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa9a0415fa0 RCX: 00007fa9a019c799
RDX: 000000000000fdef RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007fa9a0232c99 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa9a0416038 R14: 00007fa9a0415fa0 R15: 00007fffc4e79f58
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 16039:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x304/0x850 mm/slub.c:5368
 kmalloc_reserve+0xe8/0x350 net/core/skbuff.c:635
 __alloc_skb+0x185/0x710 net/core/skbuff.c:713
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:819 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:876 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x2af/0xd10 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:922
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x19a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3276
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3359 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3440
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x754/0xd80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 16039:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/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+0x1f6/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:6483
 skb_kfree_head net/core/skbuff.c:1089 [inline]
 skb_free_head+0x119/0x220 net/core/skbuff.c:1101
 skb_release_data+0x79b/0x9d0 net/core/skbuff.c:1128
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1203 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1217 [inline]
 consume_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1450 [inline]
 consume_skb+0xc4/0x110 net/core/skbuff.c:1444
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:892 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x8cf/0xd10 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:922
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x19a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3276
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3359 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3440
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x754/0xd80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888059456000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 3936 bytes to the right of
 allocated 4096-byte region [ffff888059456000, ffff888059457000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x59450
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe3d140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe3d140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0001651401 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 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 5936, tgid 5936 (kworker/u10:3), ts 110420187381, free_ts 110350871173
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x153/0x170 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x111d/0x3140 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x27c/0x2ba0 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3292 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3481 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa6/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:3539
 refill_objects+0x26b/0x400 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x1ab/0x660 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_node_track_caller_noprof+0x694/0x850 mm/slub.c:5368
 kmalloc_reserve+0xe8/0x350 net/core/skbuff.c:635
 __alloc_skb+0x185/0x710 net/core/skbuff.c:713
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:819 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:876 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x2af/0xd10 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:922
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x19a0 kernel/workqueue.c:3276
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3359 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3440
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x754/0xd80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
page last free pid 6134 tgid 6133 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xaea/0x1790 mm/page_alloc.c:3040
 folios_put_refs+0x53c/0x840 mm/swap.c:1002
 folio_batch_release include/linux/pagevec.h:101 [inline]
 truncate_inode_pages_range+0x30c/0x1050 mm/truncate.c:408
 kill_bdev block/bdev.c:91 [inline]
 blkdev_flush_mapping+0xfb/0x2e0 block/bdev.c:728
 blkdev_put_whole+0xc9/0xf0 block/bdev.c:735
 bdev_release+0x47f/0x6d0 block/bdev.c:1160
 blkdev_release+0x15/0x20 block/fops.c:705
 __fput+0x3ff/0xb40 fs/file_table.c:469
 task_work_run+0x150/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:233
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x8b8/0x2b60 kernel/exit.c:976
 do_group_exit+0xd5/0x2a0 kernel/exit.c:1118
 get_signal+0x1ec7/0x21e0 kernel/signal.c:3034
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x91/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x86/0x4a0 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+0x668/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888059457e00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888059457e80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888059457f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                                       ^
 ffff888059457f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888059458000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/20 18:49 upstream 0e4f8f1a3d08 85bf2a64 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
2026/03/20 02:20 upstream a1d9d8e83378 2f245add .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
2026/03/14 12:07 upstream 1c9982b49613 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
2026/03/14 07:58 upstream 1c9982b49613 ee8d34d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
2026/02/26 08:30 upstream d9d32e5bd5a4 e0f78d93 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
2026/02/14 07:12 upstream 770aaedb461a 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
2026/02/08 03:49 upstream e7aa57247700 4c131dc4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
2026/01/30 20:27 upstream 4d310797262f ea6dba22 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
2026/01/07 21:49 upstream f0b9d8eb98df d1b870e1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.