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

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/04/13 17:16
Subsystems: dri
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Reported-by: syzbot+b2e951687503f32f74ce@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d10h, last: 5d05h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [dri?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in drm_gem_object_release_handle 9 (22) 2026/04/16 09:03
[PATCH] drm: Avoid the chaotic interleaving of change and delete handle 1 (1) 2026/04/16 08:57
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in drm_gem_object_release_handle 19 C done 362 1229d 1613d 22/29 fixed on 2023/02/24 13:50
Last patch testing requests (12)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/16 08:20 30m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream OK log
2026/04/16 02:59 24m eadavis@qq.com patch upstream OK log
2026/04/16 00:44 24m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/15 11:19 16m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/15 07:50 54m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/15 00:33 52m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/14 10:03 16m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/14 08:47 16m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/14 05:49 16m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/14 05:00 16m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/14 01:32 16m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log
2026/04/14 00:16 16m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream report log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in drm_gem_object_release_handle+0x4b/0x1e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:374
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88806c6ffa88 by task syz.1.18/6089

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6089 Comm: syz.1.18 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
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
 drm_gem_object_release_handle+0x4b/0x1e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:374
 idr_for_each+0x1c6/0x2a0 lib/idr.c:210
 drm_gem_release+0x28/0x40 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:1088
 drm_file_free+0x729/0xa00 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:261
 drm_close_helper drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:290 [inline]
 drm_release+0x2de/0x3f0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_file.c:438
 __fput+0x44f/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:469
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7efc3279c819
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:00007ffc28821858 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffc28821940 RCX: 00007efc3279c819
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000000000001956f R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b2f520000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffc28821980
R13: 00007efc32a1609c R14: 00000000000195b1 R15: 00007efc32a16090
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6090:
 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+0x31c/0x660 mm/slub.c:5380
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 __drm_gem_shmem_create+0xc4/0x2e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:130
 drm_gem_shmem_create drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:157 [inline]
 drm_gem_shmem_create_with_handle drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:460 [inline]
 drm_gem_shmem_dumb_create+0x72/0x120 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c:549
 drm_mode_create_dumb drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.c:227 [inline]
 drm_mode_create_dumb_ioctl+0x2bd/0x340 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dumb_buffers.c:236
 drm_ioctl_kernel+0x2df/0x3b0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:804
 drm_ioctl+0x6ba/0xb80 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:901
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/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 6093:
 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+0x1c1/0x630 mm/slub.c:6483
 drm_gem_object_release_handle+0xc2/0x1e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:385
 drm_gem_handle_delete+0x7b/0xb0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem.c:413
 drm_ioctl_kernel+0x2df/0x3b0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:804
 drm_ioctl+0x6ba/0xb80 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:901
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88806c6ff800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 648 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff88806c6ff800, ffff88806c6ffc00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x6c6f8
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 ffff88813fea6dc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fea6dc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0001b1be01 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5954, tgid 5954 (syz-executor), ts 103695420380, free_ts 92416780237
 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+0x24dc/0x2580 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+0x331/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2e6/0x730 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_noprof+0x577/0x7c0 mm/slub.c:5266
 kmalloc_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1081 [inline]
 qdisc_alloc+0x92/0x9e0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:951
 qdisc_create_dflt+0x8e/0x510 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1006
 attach_one_default_qdisc net/sched/sch_generic.c:1172 [inline]
 netdev_for_each_tx_queue include/linux/netdevice.h:2684 [inline]
 attach_default_qdiscs net/sched/sch_generic.c:1190 [inline]
 dev_activate+0x378/0x1150 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1249
 __dev_open+0x67a/0x830 net/core/dev.c:1711
 __dev_change_flags+0x1f7/0x690 net/core/dev.c:9781
 netif_change_flags+0x88/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:9844
 do_setlink+0xf82/0x4590 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3180
 rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3798 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3971 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x15ad/0x1bb0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4108
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7d5/0xbe0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6994
page last free pid 5854 tgid 5854 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc2b/0xdb0 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
 vfree+0x25a/0x400 mm/vmalloc.c:3479
 kcov_put kernel/kcov.c:442 [inline]
 kcov_close+0x28/0x50 kernel/kcov.c:543
 __fput+0x44f/0xa70 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+0x1284/0x1330 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:
 ffff88806c6ff980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88806c6ffa00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88806c6ffa80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                      ^
 ffff88806c6ffb00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88806c6ffb80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/13 01:02 upstream f5459048c38a 38c8e246 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in drm_gem_object_release_handle
2026/04/12 23:47 upstream f5459048c38a 38c8e246 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in drm_gem_object_release_handle
2026/04/13 03:09 linux-next cc13002a9f98 38c8e246 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in drm_gem_object_release_handle
2026/04/13 01:41 linux-next cc13002a9f98 38c8e246 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in drm_gem_object_release_handle
2026/04/12 22:31 upstream f5459048c38a 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in drm_gem_object_release_handle
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.