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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: 182d, last: 11d
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7690e314-0982-4794-b256-c3ce9ccd260f repro KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in dvb_device_put 2026/03/08 10:20 2026/03/08 10:20 2026/03/08 10:30 31e9c887f7dc24e04b3ca70d0d54fc34141844b0
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[PATCH] media: dvb-core: fix use-after-free in dvb_device_open() error path 1 (1) 2025/11/22 06:12
[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:112 [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:629
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88802d5dfc10 by task syz.4.4419/25709

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 25709 Comm: syz.4.4419 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
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:186 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [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:629
 dvb_device_put drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:628 [inline]
 dvb_device_open+0x2ba/0x3b0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:113
 chrdev_open+0x234/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x6d8/0x1660 fs/open.c:949
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1081
 do_open fs/namei.c:4671 [inline]
 path_openat+0x208c/0x31a0 fs/namei.c:4830
 do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:4859
 do_sys_openat2+0x10d/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1366
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1388 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1383 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x12d/0x210 fs/open.c:1383
 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: 0033:0x7fd66d39c799
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:00007fd66e1a4028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fd66d616090 RCX: 00007fd66d39c799
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007fd66d432bd9 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fd66d616128 R14: 00007fd66d616090 R15: 00007ffeb78de698
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1:
 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
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 dvb_register_device+0x1d6/0x1e20 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:472
 dvb_register_frontend+0x5a8/0x8a0 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+0x44b/0xa30 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:508
 platform_probe+0x106/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1446
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:583 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:661
 __driver_probe_device+0x1de/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:803
 driver_probe_device+0x4c/0x1b0 drivers/base/dd.c:833
 __driver_attach+0x217/0x5c0 drivers/base/dd.c:1227
 bus_for_each_dev+0x13e/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
 bus_add_driver+0x305/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:715
 driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:249
 vidtv_bridge_init+0x38/0x70 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:598
 do_one_initcall+0x11d/0x760 init/main.c:1382
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1444 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1460 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1479 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x6e5/0x7a0 init/main.c:1692
 kernel_init+0x1f/0x1e0 init/main.c:1582
 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 25707:
 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:2692 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6168 [inline]
 kfree+0x1f6/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:6486
 dvb_free_device drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:616 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 dvb_device_put.part.0+0x57/0x90 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:629
 dvb_device_put drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:628 [inline]
 dvb_device_open+0x2ba/0x3b0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:113
 chrdev_open+0x234/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x6d8/0x1660 fs/open.c:949
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1081
 do_open fs/namei.c:4671 [inline]
 path_openat+0x208c/0x31a0 fs/namei.c:4830
 do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:4859
 do_sys_openat2+0x10d/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1366
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]
 __do_sys_open fs/open.c:1380 [inline]
 __se_sys_open fs/open.c:1376 [inline]
 __x64_sys_open+0xfe/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1376
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802d5dfc00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 freed 256-byte region [ffff88802d5dfc00, ffff88802d5dfd00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2d5de
head: order:1 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 ffff88813fe3cb40 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe3cb40 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000001 ffffea0000b57781 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 20065931790, free_ts 0
 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:3296 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa6/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:3543
 refill_objects+0x26b/0x400 mm/slub.c:7178
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2818 [inline]
 alloc_full_sheaf mm/slub.c:2839 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x1ab/0x600 mm/slub.c:4629
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4720 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4854 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x493/0x6f0 mm/slub.c:5378
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 bus_add_driver+0x92/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:699
 driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:249
 usb_register_driver drivers/usb/core/driver.c:1078 [inline]
 usb_register_driver+0x21c/0x3e0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:1060
 do_one_initcall+0x11d/0x760 init/main.c:1382
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1444 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1460 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1479 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x6e5/0x7a0 init/main.c:1692
 kernel_init+0x1f/0x1e0 init/main.c:1582
 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_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802d5dfb00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802d5dfb80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88802d5dfc00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88802d5dfc80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802d5dfd00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/08 01:57 upstream 03dcad79eec3 5cb44a80 .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
2026/02/15 18:40 upstream ca4ee40bf13d 1e62d198 .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
2025/11/08 04:10 upstream da32d155f4a8 4e1406b4 .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
2025/10/05 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.