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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_fh_release

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/27 15:13
Subsystems: media
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Reported-by: syzbot+4a824e616e58ca2b3d25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d17h, last: 4d17h
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[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_fh_release 0 (1) 2026/03/27 15:13

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:162
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88807cf2c638 by task v4l_id/9930

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9930 Comm: v4l_id Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xba/0x230 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+0x79/0x2e0 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:162
 v4l2_fh_del drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c:74 [inline]
 v4l2_fh_release+0x78/0x290 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c:99
 v4l2_release+0x250/0x370 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:471
 __fput+0x44f/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:469
 fput_close_sync+0x11f/0x240 fs/file_table.c:574
 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1509 [inline]
 __se_sys_close fs/open.c:1494 [inline]
 __x64_sys_close+0x7e/0x110 fs/open.c:1494
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f43cd8a7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007fff1cfbd880 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f43ce03d880 RCX: 00007f43cd8a7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f43ce03d6e8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007fff1cfbdab0 R14: 00007f43ce1a4000 R15: 000055602b2034d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 29:
 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+0x31c/0x660 mm/slub.c:5380
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 hackrf_probe+0xe6/0x13a0 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:1351
 usb_probe_interface+0x668/0xc90 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:721
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:863
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:893
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1021
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1093
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1148
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:613
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb70 drivers/base/core.c:3691
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x2110 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2266
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:721
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:863
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:893
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1021
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1093
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1148
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:613
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb70 drivers/base/core.c:3691
 usb_new_device+0xa08/0x16f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x2a1c/0x4f30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3276 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb6e/0x18c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3359
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3440
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 29:
 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:2685 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c1/0x630 mm/slub.c:6483
 hackrf_probe+0xdb4/0x13a0 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:1523
 usb_probe_interface+0x668/0xc90 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:721
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:863
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:893
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1021
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1093
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1148
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:613
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb70 drivers/base/core.c:3691
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x2110 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2266
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:721
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:863
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:893
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1021
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1093
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1148
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:613
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb70 drivers/base/core.c:3691
 usb_new_device+0xa08/0x16f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x2a1c/0x4f30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3276 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb6e/0x18c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3359
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3440
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 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 ffff88807cf2c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 1592 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff88807cf2c000, ffff88807cf2e000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7cf28
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fea6280 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fea6280 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0001f3ca01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 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 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5476, tgid 5476 (run-parts), ts 46677467596, free_ts 46572395863
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24dc/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3292 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3481
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x331/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2e6/0x730 mm/slub.c:4615
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4717 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4851 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x392/0x660 mm/slub.c:5375
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 tomoyo_print_bprm security/tomoyo/audit.c:26 [inline]
 tomoyo_init_log+0x112e/0x1fb0 security/tomoyo/audit.c:264
 tomoyo_supervisor+0x353/0x1570 security/tomoyo/common.c:2232
 tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:37 [inline]
 tomoyo_env_perm+0x151/0x1f0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:64
 tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:673 [inline]
 tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x15cb/0x1aa0 security/tomoyo/domain.c:889
 tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x11b/0x180 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:102
 security_bprm_check+0x85/0x240 security/security.c:794
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1654 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1696 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0x896/0x1460 fs/exec.c:1748
 do_execveat_common+0x50d/0x690 fs/exec.c:1846
 __do_sys_execve fs/exec.c:1930 [inline]
 __se_sys_execve fs/exec.c:1924 [inline]
 __x64_sys_execve+0x97/0xc0 fs/exec.c:1924
page last free pid 5474 tgid 5474 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc2b/0xdb0 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
 __slab_free+0x263/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:5573
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 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:4538 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5259 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x316/0x760 mm/slub.c:5272
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 tomoyo_add_entry security/tomoyo/common.c:2166 [inline]
 tomoyo_supervisor+0xc22/0x1570 security/tomoyo/common.c:2238
 tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:37 [inline]
 tomoyo_env_perm+0x151/0x1f0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:64
 tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:673 [inline]
 tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x15cb/0x1aa0 security/tomoyo/domain.c:889
 tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x11b/0x180 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:102
 security_bprm_check+0x85/0x240 security/security.c:794
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1654 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1696 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0x896/0x1460 fs/exec.c:1748
 do_execveat_common+0x50d/0x690 fs/exec.c:1846
 __do_sys_execve fs/exec.c:1930 [inline]
 __se_sys_execve fs/exec.c:1924 [inline]
 __x64_sys_execve+0x97/0xc0 fs/exec.c:1924
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807cf2c500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807cf2c580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807cf2c600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                        ^
 ffff88807cf2c680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807cf2c700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/03/23 14:30 upstream c369299895a5 5e3db351 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_fh_release
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.