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

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/21 10:48
Subsystems: sound
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Reported-by: syzbot+addf1973f8732e2cc468@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 87d, last: 1d14h
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[syzbot] [sound?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action 0 (1) 2025/10/21 10:48

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xa7/0xf0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880488681c0 by task syz.1.303/6980

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6980 Comm: syz.1.303 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
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
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:573
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:401 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x84/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xa7/0xf0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 rtlock_slowlock kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1894 [inline]
 rtlock_lock kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:43 [inline]
 __rt_spin_lock kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:49 [inline]
 rt_spin_lock+0x14a/0x3e0 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:57
 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:44 [inline]
 __wake_up_common_lock+0x2f/0x1e0 kernel/sched/wait.c:124
 snd_pcm_action_single sound/core/pcm_native.c:-1 [inline]
 snd_pcm_action+0x1f4/0x240 sound/core/pcm_native.c:1393
 loopback_check_format sound/drivers/aloop.c:363 [inline]
 loopback_trigger+0xb82/0x1b60 sound/drivers/aloop.c:411
 snd_pcm_do_start+0xb7/0x180 sound/core/pcm_native.c:1454
 snd_pcm_action_single sound/core/pcm_native.c:1310 [inline]
 snd_pcm_action+0xe7/0x240 sound/core/pcm_native.c:1393
 __snd_pcm_lib_xfer+0x1762/0x1d00 sound/core/pcm_lib.c:2405
 snd_pcm_oss_write3+0x1bc/0x350 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1241
 snd_pcm_plug_write_transfer+0x2cb/0x4c0 sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c:630
 snd_pcm_oss_write2 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1373 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_write1 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1439 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_write+0xa31/0xf20 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2794
 vfs_write+0x287/0xb40 fs/read_write.c:684
 ksys_write+0x14b/0x260 fs/read_write.c:738
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f4f9c44f749
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:00007f4f9a695038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4f9c6a6090 RCX: 00007f4f9c44f749
RDX: 0000000000004000 RSI: 00002000000012c0 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f4f9c4d3f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f4f9c6a6128 R14: 00007f4f9c6a6090 R15: 00007fffeeea22b8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6979:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:397 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:414
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1fb/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5771
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 snd_pcm_attach_substream+0x5b7/0xb30 sound/core/pcm.c:938
 snd_pcm_open_substream+0xb6/0x2410 sound/core/pcm_native.c:2756
 snd_pcm_oss_open_file sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2437 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_open+0xf2a/0x1bd0 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2518
 chrdev_open+0x4cf/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x7d0/0x1270 fs/open.c:962
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1094
 do_open fs/namei.c:4628 [inline]
 path_openat+0x342a/0x3df0 fs/namei.c:4787
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4814
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x200 fs/open.c:1430
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1447
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 6978:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6663 [inline]
 kfree+0x1bd/0x900 mm/slub.c:6871
 snd_pcm_detach_substream+0x1e1/0x290 sound/core/pcm.c:1003
 snd_pcm_oss_release_file sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2396 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_release+0x184/0x250 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2575
 __fput+0x45b/0xa80 fs/file_table.c:468
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 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:44 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xff/0x4f0 kernel/entry/common.c:75
 __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_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2e3/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888048868000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 448 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888048868000, ffff888048868800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x48868
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff27000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff27000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000080080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 ffffea0001221a01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 00000007f70854ee 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 5798, tgid 5798 (syz-executor), ts 100466814790, free_ts 88166723586
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1846
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1854 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xb10/0x1400 mm/slub.c:4651
 __slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4774
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5246 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5651 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x2bf/0x810 mm/slub.c:5759
 kmalloc_reserve+0x136/0x290 net/core/skbuff.c:608
 __alloc_skb+0x27e/0x430 net/core/skbuff.c:690
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1383 [inline]
 nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:1055 [inline]
 inet6_ifinfo_notify+0x70/0x120 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:6179
 addrconf_notify+0xca0/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3760
 notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x18d/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:-1
 netif_change_flags+0xe8/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:9802
 do_setlink+0xc55/0x41c0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3158
page last free pid 5783 tgid 5783 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 free_unref_folios+0xc28/0x1810 mm/page_alloc.c:3000
 folios_put_refs+0x569/0x670 mm/swap.c:1002
 free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x277/0x520 mm/swap_state.c:355
 __tlb_batch_free_encoded_pages mm/mmu_gather.c:136 [inline]
 tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:149 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:397 [inline]
 tlb_flush_mmu+0x3a0/0x680 mm/mmu_gather.c:404
 tlb_finish_mmu+0xc3/0x1d0 mm/mmu_gather.c:497
 vms_clear_ptes+0x42b/0x530 mm/vma.c:1238
 vms_complete_munmap_vmas+0x206/0x8a0 mm/vma.c:1280
 do_vmi_align_munmap+0x372/0x450 mm/vma.c:1539
 do_vmi_munmap+0x253/0x2e0 mm/vma.c:1587
 __vm_munmap+0x207/0x380 mm/vma.c:3203
 __do_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:1077 [inline]
 __se_sys_munmap mm/mmap.c:1074 [inline]
 __x64_sys_munmap+0x60/0x70 mm/mmap.c:1074
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888048868080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888048868100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888048868180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                           ^
 ffff888048868200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888048868280: 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
2025/12/09 16:00 upstream cb015814f8b6 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/11/16 01:40 upstream f824272b6e3f f7988ea4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/11/11 10:57 upstream 4ea7c1717f3f 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/10/21 10:47 upstream 211ddde0823f 9832ed61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/09/24 19:24 upstream cec1e6e5d1ab 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/09/24 19:19 upstream cec1e6e5d1ab 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/09/18 20:36 upstream 8b789f2b7602 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/09/14 18:51 upstream f83a4f2a4d8c e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.