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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release (3)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/14 12:34
Subsystems: media
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Reported-by: syzbot+ae466a728017ec940b41@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 12d, last: 4d14h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release (3) 3 (11) 2026/02/21 22:23
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release origin:upstream 19 syz 1 13d 13d 0/2 upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/02/09 03:58
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release (2) media 19 3 182d 178d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/11/21 10:00
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release media 19 2 307d 316d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/20 03:14
Last patch testing requests (6)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/02/21 21:57 25m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream error
2026/02/21 14:36 16m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/02/21 13:40 17m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/02/20 06:49 27m ttt978615@gmail.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git c22e26bd0906e9c8325462993f01adb16b8ea2c0 report log
2026/02/19 18:54 16m ttt978615@gmail.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git c22e26bd0906e9c8325462993f01adb16b8ea2c0 report log
2026/02/19 18:43 0m ttt978615@gmail.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git c22e26bd0906e9c8325462993f01adb16b8ea2c0 error

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dvb_frontend_release+0x410/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:2916
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802b75b83c by task syz.0.18/5958

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5958 Comm: syz.0.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
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
 dvb_frontend_release+0x410/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:2916
 __fput+0x45e/0xa80 fs/file_table.c:469
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 get_signal+0x11c3/0x1310 kernel/signal.c:2807
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7fc97690bf79
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:00007ffed13b68c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffed13b69b0 RCX: 00007fc97690bf79
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00000000000195a3 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b2d420000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fc976b85fac R14: 00007fc976b85fa8 R15: 00007fc976b85fa0
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1:
 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]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3a6/0x690 mm/slub.c:5297
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:962 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1204 [inline]
 dvb_register_device+0x2fd/0x2210 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:475
 dvb_register_frontend+0x665/0x970 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:3051
 vidtv_bridge_dvb_init drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:436 [inline]
 vidtv_bridge_probe+0x9aa/0xf80 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:508
 platform_probe+0xf9/0x190 drivers/base/platform.c:1446
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:661
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:803
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:833
 __driver_attach+0x349/0x640 drivers/base/dd.c:1227
 bus_for_each_dev+0x23e/0x2c0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
 bus_add_driver+0x348/0x670 drivers/base/bus.c:715
 driver_register+0x23a/0x320 drivers/base/driver.c:249
 vidtv_bridge_init+0x28/0x50 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:598
 do_one_initcall+0x250/0x840 init/main.c:1378
 do_initcall_level+0x104/0x190 init/main.c:1440
 do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0 init/main.c:1456
 kernel_init_freeable+0x2a6/0x3d0 init/main.c:1688
 kernel_init+0x1d/0x1d0 init/main.c:1578
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 5958:
 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:2670 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6082 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c1/0x690 mm/slub.c:6399
 dvb_free_device drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:619 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 dvb_device_put drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:632 [inline]
 dvb_generic_release+0x123/0x1c0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:169
 dvb_frontend_release+0x138/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:2914
 __fput+0x45e/0xa80 fs/file_table.c:469
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 get_signal+0x11c3/0x1310 kernel/signal.c:2807
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802b75b800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 60 bytes inside of
 freed 512-byte region [ffff88802b75b800, ffff88802b75ba00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2b758
head: order:2 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813fe0dc80 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813fe0dc80 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000002 ffffea0000add601 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000004
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 2, tgid 2 (kthreadd), ts 14639760172, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x228/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1884
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1892 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x28bb/0x2950 mm/page_alloc.c:3950
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5245
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3238 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3411
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3469 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x334/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7091
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2787 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x328/0x5f0 mm/slub.c:4536
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4639 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x44e/0x690 mm/slub.c:5292
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:962 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1204 [inline]
 set_kthread_struct+0xbb/0x340 kernel/kthread.c:125
 copy_process+0x128c/0x3d00 kernel/fork.c:2152
 kernel_clone+0x249/0x7f0 kernel/fork.c:2654
 kernel_thread+0x13f/0x1b0 kernel/fork.c:2715
 create_kthread kernel/kthread.c:490 [inline]
 kthreadd+0x4ec/0x6e0 kernel/kthread.c:849
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802b75b700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802b75b780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88802b75b800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                        ^
 ffff88802b75b880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802b75b900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/16 09:33 upstream c22e26bd0906 1e62d198 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release
2026/02/17 10:41 linux-next 350adaf7fde9 e439b951 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release
2026/02/16 07:37 upstream c22e26bd0906 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release
2026/02/14 05:18 upstream cd7a5651db26 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release
2026/02/17 18:18 upstream 970296997869 4db8fa92 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release
2026/02/11 19:40 upstream 192c0159402e 75707236 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release
2026/02/10 00:40 upstream 05f7e89ab973 4ab09a02 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release
2026/02/11 21:11 linux-next 9152bc8cebcb 75707236 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release
2026/02/14 12:33 upstream 770aaedb461a 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KFENCE: use-after-free read in dvb_frontend_release
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.