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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in dvb_device_put

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/22 12:49
Subsystems: media
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Reported-by: syzbot+d445a71e1c011b592c16@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 35d, last: 17d
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[syzbot] Monthly media report (Sep 2025) 0 (1) 2025/09/26 05:14
[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in dvb_device_put 0 (1) 2025/09/22 12:49

Sample crash report:
i2c i2c-0: dvb_frontend_start: failed to start kthread (-4)
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dvb_device_put.part.0+0x22/0x90 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:632
Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881404ea410 by task syz.3.4584/15386

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 15386 Comm: syz.3.4584 Tainted: GF R  U              syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [F]=FORCED_MODULE, [R]=FORCED_RMMOD, [U]=USER
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:194 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x100/0x1b0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
 dvb_device_put.part.0+0x22/0x90 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:632
 dvb_device_put drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:631 [inline]
 dvb_device_open+0x2a4/0x3b0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:113
 chrdev_open+0x231/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x97f/0x1530 fs/open.c:965
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1097
 do_open fs/namei.c:3975 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1de4/0x2cb0 fs/namei.c:4134
 do_filp_open+0x20b/0x470 fs/namei.c:4161
 do_sys_openat2+0x11b/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1437
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1468 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1463 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x174/0x210 fs/open.c:1463
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f14a398eec9
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:00007f14a483c038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f14a3be6090 RCX: 00007f14a398eec9
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f14a3a11f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f14a3be6128 R14: 00007f14a3be6090 R15: 00007ffcc5b03cf8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:400 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:417
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 dvb_register_device+0x1e4/0x2370 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:475
 dvb_register_frontend+0x5a6/0x880 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+0x459/0xa90 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:508
 platform_probe+0x103/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1405
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:581 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa90 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x1de/0x440 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4c/0x1b0 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __driver_attach+0x283/0x580 drivers/base/dd.c:1217
 bus_for_each_dev+0x13b/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:370
 bus_add_driver+0x2e9/0x690 drivers/base/bus.c:678
 driver_register+0x15c/0x4b0 drivers/base/driver.c:249
 vidtv_bridge_init+0x45/0x80 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:598
 do_one_initcall+0x120/0x6e0 init/main.c:1283
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1345 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1361 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1380 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x5c2/0x910 init/main.c:1593
 kernel_init+0x1c/0x2b0 init/main.c:1483
 ret_from_fork+0x56a/0x730 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 15385:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:56
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 __kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:587
 kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline]
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2514 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6566 [inline]
 kfree+0x2b8/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6773
 dvb_free_device drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:619 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 dvb_device_put.part.0+0x60/0x90 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:632
 dvb_device_put drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:631 [inline]
 dvb_device_open+0x2a4/0x3b0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:113
 chrdev_open+0x231/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x97f/0x1530 fs/open.c:965
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1097
 do_open fs/namei.c:3975 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1de4/0x2cb0 fs/namei.c:4134
 do_filp_open+0x20b/0x470 fs/namei.c:4161
 do_sys_openat2+0x11b/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1437
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1468 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1463 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x174/0x210 fs/open.c:1463
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881404ea400
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 freed 256-byte region [ffff8881404ea400, ffff8881404ea500)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1404ea
head: order:1 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x57ff00000000040(head|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 057ff00000000040 ffff88801b026b40 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 057ff00000000040 ffff88801b026b40 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 057ff00000000001 ffffea0005013a81 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000002
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 1, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 17519374101, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c0/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x10a3/0x3a30 mm/page_alloc.c:3884
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x25f/0x2470 mm/page_alloc.c:5183
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x1fb/0x550 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3030 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3203 [inline]
 new_slab+0x24a/0x360 mm/slub.c:3257
 ___slab_alloc+0xdc4/0x1ae0 mm/slub.c:4627
 __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x63/0x110 mm/slub.c:4746
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4822 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5233 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x477/0x780 mm/slub.c:5719
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 bus_add_driver+0x92/0x690 drivers/base/bus.c:662
 driver_register+0x15c/0x4b0 drivers/base/driver.c:249
 usb_register_driver+0x216/0x4d0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:1078
 do_one_initcall+0x120/0x6e0 init/main.c:1283
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1345 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1361 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1380 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x5c2/0x910 init/main.c:1593
 kernel_init+0x1c/0x2b0 init/main.c:1483
 ret_from_fork+0x56a/0x730 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:
 ffff8881404ea300: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff8881404ea380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff8881404ea400: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff8881404ea480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8881404ea500: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/10/05 15:04 upstream 6093a688a07d 49379ee0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in dvb_device_put
2025/09/17 20:24 upstream d4b779985a6c e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in dvb_device_put
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.