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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/04/07 20:35
Subsystems: serial
Labels: actionable prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+098cefc0911c68db5dab@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 158d, last: 9d15h
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da83102e assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event (2) 2026/05/18 02:20 2026/05/18 02:20 2026/05/18 03:15 de5aae85
50dc4440 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 4440e7c2
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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 838d 834d 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:155 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:181
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888038263418 by task syz.0.464/7115

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7115 Comm: syz.0.464 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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+0x7d/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5882
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:155 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:181
 rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xbf/0xa30 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1430
 rt_spin_unlock+0x10f/0x200 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:84
 kbd_keycode drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1574 [inline]
 kbd_event+0x2e8d/0x41f0 drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1592
 input_handle_events_default+0xd4/0x1a0 drivers/input/input.c:2614
 input_pass_values+0x288/0x890 drivers/input/input.c:128
 input_event_dispose+0x35f/0x700 drivers/input/input.c:342
 input_inject_event+0x1fa/0x310 drivers/input/input.c:424
 evdev_write+0x328/0x4c0 drivers/input/evdev.c:533
 vfs_write+0x29f/0xbb0 fs/read_write.c:685
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:739
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff03bb6e159
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:00007ff039dc6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff03bdf5fa0 RCX: 00007ff03bb6e159
RDX: 0000000000002250 RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ff03bc05024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff03bdf6038 R14: 00007ff03bdf5fa0 R15: 00007ffd7229c4d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 7121:
 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+0x3d5/0x680 mm/slub.c:5563
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 alloc_tty_struct+0xa6/0x7a0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3075
 tty_init_dev+0x59/0x4d0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1373
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2046 [inline]
 tty_open+0x7e5/0xcd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2093
 chrdev_open+0x4dc/0x600 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x849/0x1420 fs/open.c:996
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1101
 do_open fs/namei.c:4837 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1448/0x1d60 fs/namei.c:5000
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5029
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1417
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1434
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5706:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 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:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6792
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3387 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3470
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
 kthread+0x38b/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:2272
 __queue_work+0xd4b/0x1120 kernel/workqueue.c:2448
 queue_work_on+0x106/0x1d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2501
 tty_release_struct+0xb8/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1665
 tty_release+0xc6b/0x1680 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1825
 __fput+0x42a/0xa80 fs/file_table.c:512
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 get_signal+0x1182/0x12c0 kernel/signal.c:2811
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xbb/0x860 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:66 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x10e/0x770 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __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:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:336 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x328/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888038263000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1048 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888038263000, ffff888038263800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x38260
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888038260811
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff053c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000300080008 00000000f5000000 ffff888038260811
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff053c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000300080008 00000000f5000000 ffff888038260811
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 5594, tgid 5594 (syz-executor), ts 102418449652
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2591/0x2600 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x230/0x5c0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7410
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x339/0x690 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x61e/0x7b0 mm/slub.c:5545
 kmemdup_noprof+0x2b/0x70 mm/util.c:138
 kmemdup_noprof include/linux/fortify-string.h:715 [inline]
 neigh_sysctl_register+0xae/0xa90 net/core/neighbour.c:3854
 addrconf_sysctl_register+0xb3/0x1c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7396
 ipv6_add_dev+0xd64/0x1400 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:460
 addrconf_notify+0x771/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3686
 notifier_call_chain+0x1a5/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2313 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2327 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x18c0/0x1ed0 net/core/dev.c:11541
 cfg80211_register_netdevice+0x138/0x2d0 net/wireless/core.c:1693
 ieee80211_if_add+0x108d/0x1600 net/mac80211/iface.c:2397
page last free pid 5684 tgid 5684 ts 102379315836 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xf8e/0x1070 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
 __slab_free+0x250/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:5815
 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:4683 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_lru_noprof+0x35d/0x680 mm/slub.c:5029
 __d_alloc+0x37/0x6f0 fs/dcache.c:1907
 d_alloc_parallel+0xde/0x16c0 fs/dcache.c:2766
 lookup_open+0x2cd/0x1a60 fs/namei.c:4471
 open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4767 [inline]
 path_openat+0x67c/0x1d60 fs/namei.c:4997
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5029
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1417
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1434
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888038263300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888038263380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888038263400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff888038263480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888038263500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (14):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/29 22:43 upstream 08dbfad3f504 2f52988a .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
2026/08/26 20:49 upstream 45c13f3f9e3b a2b77b9e .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
2026/07/09 02:54 upstream 0e35b9b6ec0f b9f1ceaa .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
2026/06/26 00:11 upstream 962528fef902 432fd51a .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
2026/06/01 00:46 upstream 8d9c51eac648 6b4a8443 .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
2026/05/28 16:40 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 9a5a7e5e .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
2026/05/23 10:59 upstream 45255ea1ca09 c69befb3 .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
2026/05/18 13:30 upstream 5200f5f493f7 55156e84 .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
2026/05/17 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.