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memory leak in drm_mode_atomic_ioctl

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/12/04 14:25
Subsystems: dri
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Reported-by: syzbot+3fc9eecaf97147282c87@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 147d, last: 15d
Discussions (4)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH] drm/atomic: fix vblank event leak in complete_signaling() 1 (1) 2026/03/29 07:34
[syzbot] Monthly dri report (Mar 2026) 0 (1) 2026/03/01 06:22
[syzbot] Monthly dri report (Dec 2025) 0 (1) 2025/12/29 08:12
[syzbot] [dri?] memory leak in drm_mode_atomic_ioctl 1 (3) 2025/12/04 16:47
Last patch testing requests (5)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/04/12 00:22 48m retest repro upstream report log
2026/02/22 20:36 40m retest repro upstream report log
2026/02/22 20:32 17m retest repro upstream report log
2025/12/14 14:21 25m retest repro upstream report log
2025/12/04 15:57 34m ssranevjti@gmail.com patch upstream OK log

Sample crash report:
2026/03/28 23:43:57 executed programs: 5
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88812af4ad00 (size 128):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 6064, jiffies 4294943376
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc 6cd2bd84):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4543 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x377/0x480 mm/slub.c:5375
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
    create_vblank_event drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1091 [inline]
    prepare_signaling drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1396 [inline]
    drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x911/0x13c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1705
    drm_ioctl_kernel+0x122/0x1f0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:804
    drm_ioctl+0x37c/0x6d0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:901
    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+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888101b2bc80 (size 128):
  comm "syz.0.18", pid 6067, jiffies 4294943378
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc 6cd2bd84):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4543 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x377/0x480 mm/slub.c:5375
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
    create_vblank_event drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1091 [inline]
    prepare_signaling drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1396 [inline]
    drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x911/0x13c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1705
    drm_ioctl_kernel+0x122/0x1f0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:804
    drm_ioctl+0x37c/0x6d0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:901
    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+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88812af4ac80 (size 128):
  comm "syz.0.19", pid 6071, jiffies 4294943380
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc 6cd2bd84):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4543 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x377/0x480 mm/slub.c:5375
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
    create_vblank_event drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1091 [inline]
    prepare_signaling drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1396 [inline]
    drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x911/0x13c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1705
    drm_ioctl_kernel+0x122/0x1f0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:804
    drm_ioctl+0x37c/0x6d0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:901
    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+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88812af4ab80 (size 128):
  comm "syz.0.20", pid 6120, jiffies 4294943992
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc 6cd2bd84):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4543 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x377/0x480 mm/slub.c:5375
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
    create_vblank_event drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1091 [inline]
    prepare_signaling drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1396 [inline]
    drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x911/0x13c0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c:1705
    drm_ioctl_kernel+0x122/0x1f0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:804
    drm_ioctl+0x37c/0x6d0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:901
    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+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xe2/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

connection error: failed to recv *flatrpc.ExecutorMessageRawT: EOF

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/28 23:44 upstream be762d8b6dd7 356bdfc9 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-leak memory leak in drm_mode_atomic_ioctl
2025/11/30 14:15 upstream 6bda50f4333f d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-leak memory leak in drm_mode_atomic_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.