KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_open

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/20 01:24
Reported-by: syzbot+9f3ec62bb036976a8331@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d10h, last: 6d10h
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_open serial 19 syz, C done done 8 2345d 2457d 15/29 fixed on 2020/05/10 10:41
linux-4.14 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_open 19 syz, C done 5 2356d 2458d 1/1 fixed on 2020/04/13 10:52
android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_open origin:upstream 19 syz 1 13d 13d 0/2 premoderation: reported syz repro on 2026/08/13 02:17
linux-4.19 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_open 19 syz, C done 2 2352d 2458d 1/1 fixed on 2020/04/17 06:51

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:134 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tty_port_kopened include/linux/tty.h:616 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2047 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in tty_open+0x823/0x1040 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2116
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888113bc9110 by task syz.2.19/422

CPU: 0 PID: 422 Comm: syz.2.19 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x24 lib/dump_stack.c:77
 dump_stack_lvl+0x1a7/0x208 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:435 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x100/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:452
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x249/0x2a0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/shadow.c:31
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline]
 test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:134 [inline]
 tty_port_kopened include/linux/tty.h:616 [inline]
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2047 [inline]
 tty_open+0x823/0x1040 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2116
 chrdev_open+0x585/0x5f0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x7a5/0x10a0 fs/open.c:819
 vfs_open+0x73/0x80 fs/open.c:944
 do_open fs/namei.c:3399 [inline]
 path_openat+0x26c3/0x3040 fs/namei.c:3517
 do_filp_open+0x1df/0x400 fs/namei.c:3544
 do_sys_openat2+0x19f/0x750 fs/open.c:1219
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1235 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1251 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1246 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x136/0x160 fs/open.c:1246
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb
RIP: 0033:0x7f7bbeef00d9
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:00007f7bbed51028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7bbf177fa0 RCX: 00007f7bbeef00d9
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000200000000800 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 00007f7bbef87024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7bbf178038 R14: 00007f7bbf177fa0 R15: 00007ffe39bbdd98

Allocated by task 415:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:430 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:509 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x100 mm/kasan/common.c:518
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x179/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2979
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:555 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:667 [inline]
 gs_port_alloc drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c:1162 [inline]
 gserial_alloc_line_no_console+0x238/0x700 drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c:1242
 obex_alloc_inst+0x86/0xe0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_obex.c:435
 try_get_usb_function_instance drivers/usb/gadget/functions.c:28 [inline]
 usb_get_function_instance+0xe2/0x2f0 drivers/usb/gadget/functions.c:44
 function_make+0x118/0x350 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:636
 configfs_mkdir+0x5d2/0xd90 fs/configfs/dir.c:1382
 vfs_mkdir+0x42c/0x600 fs/namei.c:3798
 do_mkdirat+0x14c/0x340 fs/namei.c:3820
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:3831 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:3829 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x7b/0x90 fs/namei.c:3829
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

Freed by task 415:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4a/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x23/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x125/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:362
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:370
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:220 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1600 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc5/0x190 mm/slub.c:1626
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3208 [inline]
 kfree+0xc0/0x270 mm/slub.c:4196
 gserial_free_port+0x240/0x2d0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c:1206
 gserial_free_line+0x9f/0x1b0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c:1223
 obex_free_inst+0x39/0x60 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_obex.c:421
 usb_put_function_instance+0x85/0xa0 drivers/usb/gadget/functions.c:77
 obex_attr_release+0x15/0x20 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_obex.c:391
 config_item_cleanup fs/configfs/item.c:130 [inline]
 config_item_release fs/configfs/item.c:139 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 config_item_put+0x158/0x210 fs/configfs/item.c:151
 configfs_rmdir+0x89f/0x960 fs/configfs/dir.c:1608
 vfs_rmdir+0x1ab/0x3c0 fs/namei.c:3860
 do_rmdir+0x232/0x630 fs/namei.c:3920
 __do_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:3938 [inline]
 __se_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:3936 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rmdir+0x49/0x50 fs/namei.c:3936
 do_syscall_64+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xcb

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888113bc9000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 272 bytes inside of
 1024-byte region [ffff888113bc9000, ffff888113bc9400)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00044ef200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888113bca800 pfn:0x113bc8
head:ffffea00044ef200 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 4000000000010200 ffffea0004529800 0000000500000005 ffff888100042f00
raw: ffff888113bca800 000000008010000f 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 106, ts 5627788133, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:35 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook mm/page_alloc.c:2456 [inline]
 prep_new_page+0x176/0x190 mm/page_alloc.c:2462
 get_page_from_freelist+0x225f/0x23f0 mm/page_alloc.c:4254
 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x29a/0x640 mm/page_alloc.c:5384
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1813 [inline]
 new_slab+0x84/0x3f0 mm/slub.c:1874
 new_slab_objects mm/slub.c:2632 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x2f8/0x4c0 mm/slub.c:2796
 __slab_alloc+0x63/0xa0 mm/slub.c:2836
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2918 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2960 [inline]
 __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1e4/0x310 mm/slub.c:4541
 __kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:144 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0xdc/0x520 net/core/skbuff.c:212
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
 alloc_uevent_skb+0x85/0x240 lib/kobject_uevent.c:290
 uevent_net_broadcast_untagged lib/kobject_uevent.c:326 [inline]
 kobject_uevent_net_broadcast+0x335/0x5a0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:409
 kobject_uevent_env+0x52b/0x700 lib/kobject_uevent.c:608
 kobject_synth_uevent+0x452/0x940 lib/kobject_uevent.c:208
 uevent_store+0x25/0x60 drivers/base/core.c:2320
 dev_attr_store+0x5e/0x80 drivers/base/core.c:2018
 sysfs_kf_write+0x129/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:143
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2bd/0x400 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888113bc9000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888113bc9080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888113bc9100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff888113bc9180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888113bc9200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/20 01:23 android13-5.10-lts e334a66065d3 1e72964b .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-10 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.