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

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/08 11:55
Bug presence: origin:lts-only
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Reported-by: syzbot+0ef20fd9629990091312@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 16d, last: 8d02h
Bug presence (2)
Date Name Commit Repro Result
2026/08/16 linux-6.6.y (ToT) d27334b2888c C [report] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_bind
2026/08/16 upstream (ToT) 3eb40771c00a C Didn't crash
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_bind usb prio:normal 22 syz, C error 31 7h19m 24d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/31 17:16

Sample crash report:
Memory cgroup out of memory: Killed process 5929 (syz.0.17) total-vm:44920kB, anon-rss:1236kB, file-rss:1024kB, shmem-rss:0kB, UID:0 pgtables:76kB oom_score_adj:1000
udc dummy_udc.0: failed to start USB Gadget filesystem: -12
gadgetfs: probe of gadget.0 failed with error -12
udc dummy_udc.1: failed to start USB Gadget filesystem: -12
gadgetfs: probe of gadget.1 failed with error -12
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in gadgetfs_bind+0xd3/0x830 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:1677
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88802cfe88c0 by task syz.0.17/5929

CPU: 1 PID: 5929 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 gadgetfs_bind+0xd3/0x830 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:1677
 gadget_bind_driver+0x2b3/0x770 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1651
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x247/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:717
 __driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:879
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:909
 __driver_attach+0x444/0x6d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1295
 bus_for_each_dev+0x235/0x2b0 drivers/base/bus.c:370
 bus_add_driver+0x340/0x630 drivers/base/bus.c:723
 driver_register+0x23a/0x310 drivers/base/driver.c:246
 usb_gadget_register_driver_owner+0xf9/0x270 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1730
 dev_config+0xe49/0x1260 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:1878
 vfs_write+0x299/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:582
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fa12819e0d9
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:00007ffcdd9e8f68 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa128425fa0 RCX: 00007fa12819e0d9
RDX: 000000000000001f RSI: 0000200000000400 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fa128235024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa128425fac R14: 00007fa128425fa0 R15: 00007fa128425fa0
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5889:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 dev_new drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:170 [inline]
 gadgetfs_fill_super+0x2ec/0x5f0 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2048
 vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1346 [inline]
 get_tree_single+0xba/0x140 fs/super.c:1373
 vfs_get_tree+0x8c/0x280 fs/super.c:1764
 do_new_mount+0x24a/0xa40 fs/namespace.c:3386
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3726 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3935 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x2e7/0x3d0 fs/namespace.c:3912
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 5929:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x28/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
 gadgetfs_bind+0x6d6/0x830 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:1698
 gadget_bind_driver+0x2b3/0x770 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1651
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x247/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:717
 __driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:879
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:909
 __driver_attach+0x444/0x6d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1295
 bus_for_each_dev+0x235/0x2b0 drivers/base/bus.c:370
 bus_add_driver+0x340/0x630 drivers/base/bus.c:723
 driver_register+0x23a/0x310 drivers/base/driver.c:246
 usb_gadget_register_driver_owner+0xf9/0x270 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1730
 dev_config+0xe49/0x1260 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:1878
 vfs_write+0x299/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:582
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802cfe8800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 192 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff88802cfe8800, ffff88802cfe8c00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000b3fa00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2cfe8
head:ffffea0000b3fa00 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017c41dc0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 5889, tgid 5889 (syz-executor), ts 105764660751, free_ts 105689541549
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1582
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1589 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2181/0x22a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3221
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4501
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x180 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5c/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x11f/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0xa6/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:1014
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:620 [inline]
 kzalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:732 [inline]
 qdisc_alloc+0x95/0xa40 net/sched/sch_generic.c:951
 qdisc_create_dflt+0x63/0x430 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1012
 attach_one_default_qdisc net/sched/sch_generic.c:1176 [inline]
 netdev_for_each_tx_queue include/linux/netdevice.h:2522 [inline]
 attach_default_qdiscs net/sched/sch_generic.c:1194 [inline]
 dev_activate+0x396/0x1160 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1253
 __dev_open+0x347/0x430 net/core/dev.c:1528
 __dev_change_flags+0x1e8/0x6a0 net/core/dev.c:8723
 dev_change_flags+0x7c/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8795
 devinet_ioctl+0x949/0x1d70 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1177
 inet_ioctl+0x42b/0x560 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1000
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1182 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7d7/0x8f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2366
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2459
 __slab_free+0x35a/0x400 mm/slub.c:3736
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6a/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:770
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x194/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 nsim_fib4_rt_create drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:280 [inline]
 nsim_fib4_rt_insert drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:426 [inline]
 nsim_fib4_event drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:464 [inline]
 nsim_fib_event drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:884 [inline]
 nsim_fib_event_work+0x86e/0x32c0 drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:1494
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802cfe8780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802cfe8800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88802cfe8880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                           ^
 ffff88802cfe8900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802cfe8980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/08 21:45 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced 5d63f80b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_bind
2026/08/08 11:54 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_bind
2026/08/08 11:54 linux-6.6.y 6436c12a2ced 5d63f80b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_bind
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.