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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/04/07 20:35
Subsystems: serial
Labels: actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+098cefc0911c68db5dab@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 45d, last: 5h50m
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50dc4440-3758-4b9e-ada3-a30fadbf3a44 moderation Actionable: ✅ Confident: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event (2) 2026/04/07 00:02 2026/04/07 00:02 2026/04/07 00:27 4440e7c2e964875f9e35dba6deda12c2195f19d3
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[PATCH RFC] vt: tty: use krefs to fix a potential UAF between kbd_keycode and con_shutdown 1 (1) 2026/04/10 06:55
[syzbot] [serial?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event (2) 0 (1) 2026/04/07 20:35
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event serial 19 1 724d 720d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/21 03:07

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888051204418 by task syz.6.4599/21087

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 21087 Comm: syz.6.4599 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:574
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x84/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
 rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xbf/0x8b0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1426
 kbd_keycode drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1565 [inline]
 kbd_event+0x2f91/0x42f0 drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1583
 input_handle_events_default+0xd4/0x1a0 drivers/input/input.c:2558
 input_pass_values+0x288/0x890 drivers/input/input.c:128
 input_event_dispose+0x330/0x6b0 drivers/input/input.c:342
 input_inject_event+0x1d7/0x320 drivers/input/input.c:424
 evdev_write+0x328/0x4c0 drivers/input/evdev.c:528
 vfs_write+0x2a3/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f1d8c46ce59
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:00007f1d8a6be028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1d8c6e5fa0 RCX: 00007f1d8c46ce59
RDX: 0000000000002250 RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 00007f1d8c502d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1d8c6e6038 R14: 00007f1d8c6e5fa0 R15: 00007ffec9f38108
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 21087:
 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:5419
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 alloc_tty_struct+0xa6/0x7b0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3102
 tty_init_dev+0x59/0x4d0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1400
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2073 [inline]
 tty_open+0x86e/0xd80 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120
 chrdev_open+0x4d0/0x5f0 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x83d/0x13e0 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1079
 do_open fs/namei.c:4699 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2e43/0x38a0 fs/namei.c:4858
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4887
 do_sys_openat2+0x113/0x200 fs/open.c:1364
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1370 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1386 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1381 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1381
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 16547:
 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:2689 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6250 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6565
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 insert_work+0x3d/0x330 kernel/workqueue.c:2226
 __queue_work+0xd1d/0x1090 kernel/workqueue.c:2393
 queue_work_on+0x106/0x1d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2444
 tty_release_struct+0xb8/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1692
 tty_release+0xcb6/0x1710 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1852
 __fput+0x461/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:510
 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+0xf3/0x4d0 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:238 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x33e/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888051204000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1048 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888051204000, ffff888051204800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888051206000 pfn:0x51200
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888051200811
flags: 0x80000000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000240 ffff88801a0293c0 ffff88801a02a388 ffffea00013fc210
raw: ffff888051206000 0000100000080006 00000000f5000000 ffff888051200811
head: 0080000000000240 ffff88801a0293c0 ffff88801a02a388 ffffea00013fc210
head: ffff888051206000 0000100000080006 00000000f5000000 ffff888051200811
head: 0080000000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 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 17598, tgid 17598 (syz-executor), ts 1352112276231, free_ts 1351738438926
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1858
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1866 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x27c8/0x2840 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5226
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x33c/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7271
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x373/0x720 mm/slub.c:4651
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4749 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4883 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5294 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x60b/0x7e0 mm/slub.c:5407
 kmemdup_noprof+0x2b/0x70 mm/util.c:138
 kmemdup_noprof include/linux/fortify-string.h:763 [inline]
 neigh_sysctl_register+0xae/0xa90 net/core/neighbour.c:3861
 addrconf_sysctl_register+0xb3/0x1c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7379
 ipv6_add_dev+0xd64/0x1400 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:460
 addrconf_notify+0x771/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3662
 notifier_call_chain+0x1ad/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2287 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2301 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x18d5/0x1ed0 net/core/dev.c:11461
 veth_newlink+0x67b/0xb70 drivers/net/veth.c:1890
 rtnl_newlink_create+0x329/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3864
page last free pid 5582 tgid 5582 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1402 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xfa6/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 __slab_free+0x252/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:5612
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4569 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4898 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x22a/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:4950
 __alloc_skb+0x1d0/0x7d0 net/core/skbuff.c:702
 alloc_skb_fclone include/linux/skbuff.h:1433 [inline]
 tcp_stream_alloc_skb+0x3f/0x5c0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:935
 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x134b/0x5370 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1260
 tcp_sendmsg+0x2f/0x50 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1455
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x40c/0x4f0 net/socket.c:1254
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x629/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888051204300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888051204380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888051204400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff888051204480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888051204500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/17 19:44 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/11 11:53 upstream 5d6919055dec e6eb7c0b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/03 23:43 upstream f377d0025eb0 a0d91488 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/04/02 19:24 upstream 5619b098e2fb 8b15d4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/11 13:22 linux-next e98d21c170b0 e6eb7c0b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/10 14:23 linux-next e98d21c170b0 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.