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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in fb_mode_is_equal

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/06/08 04:23
Subsystems: fbdev
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Reported-by: syzbot+162203f526e8661d35da@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d18h, last: 4d18h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in fb_mode_is_equal fbdev 19 syz done inconclusive 545 1790d 2376d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/09/30 04:40

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fb_mode_is_equal+0x280/0x2f0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c:934
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802666219c by task syz.6.4102/26504

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 26504 Comm: syz.6.4102 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1d0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 fb_mode_is_equal+0x280/0x2f0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/modedb.c:934
 fbcon_mode_deleted+0x146/0x1e0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:2750
 fb_set_var+0xe76/0x11b0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c:248
 do_fb_ioctl+0x734/0x7e0 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_chrdev.c:90
 fb_ioctl+0xe5/0x150 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_chrdev.c:169
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x840 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f828819ce59
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:00007f8285fb2028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8288416270 RCX: 00007f828819ce59
RDX: 0000200000000080 RSI: 0000000000004601 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f8288232d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8288416308 R14: 00007f8288416270 R15: 00007fffc117b3a8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 19562:
 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
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5296 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x301/0x850 mm/slub.c:5308
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 cfg80211_inform_single_bss_data+0x557/0x1de0 net/wireless/scan.c:2344
 cfg80211_inform_bss_data+0x237/0x3a00 net/wireless/scan.c:3229
 cfg80211_inform_bss_frame_data+0x247/0x780 net/wireless/scan.c:3320
 ieee80211_bss_info_update+0x310/0xab0 net/mac80211/scan.c:230
 ieee80211_rx_bss_info net/mac80211/ibss.c:1088 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_mgmt_probe_beacon net/mac80211/ibss.c:1569 [inline]
 ieee80211_ibss_rx_queued_mgmt+0x1922/0x2f80 net/mac80211/ibss.c:1596
 ieee80211_iface_process_skb net/mac80211/iface.c:1795 [inline]
 ieee80211_iface_work+0xbff/0x13e0 net/mac80211/iface.c:1849
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x410/0x570 net/wireless/core.c:513
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 15:
 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:2689 [inline]
 __rcu_free_sheaf_prepare+0x5d/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:2940
 rcu_free_sheaf+0x1a/0xe0 mm/slub.c:5850
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2617 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x5a2/0x10d0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2869
 handle_softirqs+0x1ea/0xa00 kernel/softirq.c:622
 run_ksoftirqd kernel/softirq.c:1076 [inline]
 run_ksoftirqd+0x38/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:1068
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x3d3/0xaa0 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888026662180
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-96 of size 96
The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of
 freed 96-byte region [ffff888026662180, ffff8880266621e0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x26662
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffff88813fe30280 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800200020 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 2995, tgid 2995 (kworker/u8:8), ts 29285253194, free_ts 29284937714
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1853
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1861 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x11a6/0x3410 mm/page_alloc.c:3941
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x27c/0x2bc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5221
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3467 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa6/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:3525
 refill_objects+0x277/0x420 mm/slub.c:7272
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x375/0x650 mm/slub.c:4652
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4750 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4884 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_node_noprof+0x5a3/0x770 mm/slub.c:5428
 kmalloc_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1077 [inline]
 __get_vm_area_node+0x101/0x330 mm/vmalloc.c:3215
 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x228/0x1630 mm/vmalloc.c:4024
 __vmalloc_node_noprof+0xad/0xf0 mm/vmalloc.c:4124
 alloc_thread_stack_node kernel/fork.c:357 [inline]
 dup_task_struct kernel/fork.c:926 [inline]
 copy_process+0x7fb/0x7ed0 kernel/fork.c:2090
 kernel_clone+0x176/0x9e0 kernel/fork.c:2722
 user_mode_thread+0xcc/0x110 kernel/fork.c:2798
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work kernel/umh.c:171 [inline]
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0xcb/0x180 kernel/umh.c:157
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
page last free pid 2995 tgid 2995 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1397 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x794/0x10a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2938
 ___free_pages_bulk mm/kasan/shadow.c:333 [inline]
 __kasan_populate_vmalloc_do mm/kasan/shadow.c:385 [inline]
 __kasan_populate_vmalloc+0x164/0x210 mm/kasan/shadow.c:424
 kasan_populate_vmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:580 [inline]
 alloc_vmap_area+0x95d/0x2b70 mm/vmalloc.c:2123
 __get_vm_area_node+0x1ca/0x330 mm/vmalloc.c:3226
 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x228/0x1630 mm/vmalloc.c:4024
 __vmalloc_node_noprof+0xad/0xf0 mm/vmalloc.c:4124
 alloc_thread_stack_node kernel/fork.c:357 [inline]
 dup_task_struct kernel/fork.c:926 [inline]
 copy_process+0x7fb/0x7ed0 kernel/fork.c:2090
 kernel_clone+0x176/0x9e0 kernel/fork.c:2722
 user_mode_thread+0xcc/0x110 kernel/fork.c:2798
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work kernel/umh.c:171 [inline]
 call_usermodehelper_exec_work+0xcb/0x180 kernel/umh.c:157
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888026662080: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
 ffff888026662100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888026662180: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
                            ^
 ffff888026662200: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
 ffff888026662280: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/05 04:25 upstream 9154c4af7829 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in fb_mode_is_equal
2026/06/04 16:11 upstream ba3e43a9e601 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in fb_mode_is_equal
2026/06/04 04:21 upstream ba3e43a9e601 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in fb_mode_is_equal
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.