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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_ioctl (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2026/01/07 12:33
Subsystems: media
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Reported-by: syzbot+ac3630204afe8caef784@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 55d, last: 55d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
3f8c936b-cef1-4c28-98b0-f1746eb55ec1 moderation Actionable: ✅  Confident: ✅  ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_ioctl (2) 2026/02/06 07:04 2026/02/06 10:28 2026/02/06 10:41 9b618abc0cd923b36c7a5ebc58a21174112d8f70
a27321dd-6274-41e1-a2ea-f30eb970fbe5 moderation Actionable: ✅  Confident: ✅  ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_ioctl (2) 2026/01/15 18:15 2026/01/15 18:15 2026/01/15 18:44 a9d6a79219801d2130df3b1a792c57f0e5428e9f
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_ioctl media 19 1 300d 296d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/04 07:12
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_ioctl (2) media usb 19 C error 1 1715d 1711d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/14 09:33

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in v4l2_ioctl+0xc7/0x1e0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:364
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888053a040c8 by task v4l_id/32375

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 32375 Comm: v4l_id Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 v4l2_ioctl+0xc7/0x1e0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:364
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fb4d171d378
Code: 00 00 48 8d 44 24 08 48 89 54 24 e0 48 89 44 24 c0 48 8d 44 24 d0 48 89 44 24 c8 b8 10 00 00 00 c7 44 24 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <89> c2 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 07 89 d0 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 8b 15 49 3a 0d
RSP: 002b:00007ffed13f1b38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fb4d171d378
RDX: 00007ffed13f1b40 RSI: 0000000080685600 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffed13f1cf0 R14: 00007fb4d1e94000 R15: 0000562e312264d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5913:
 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+0x3e2/0x700 mm/slub.c:5776
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 hackrf_probe+0xda/0x1390 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+0x26d/0xad0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x251/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2b8/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1086
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:574
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x2110 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2210
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x3c0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26d/0xad0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x251/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2b8/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1086
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:574
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_new_device+0xa39/0x1720 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+0x29b1/0x4ef0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Freed by task 5913:
 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:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c0/0x660 mm/slub.c:6878
 hackrf_probe+0xd98/0x1390 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+0x26d/0xad0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x251/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2b8/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1086
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:574
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x2110 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2210
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x3c0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26d/0xad0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x251/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2b8/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1086
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:574
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_new_device+0xa39/0x1720 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+0x29b1/0x4ef0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888053a04000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 200 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff888053a04000, ffff888053a06000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x53a00
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 ffff88813ffa7280 ffffea0001e15000 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813ffa7280 ffffea0001e15000 dead000000000002
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea00014e8001 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 0x528c0(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 8621, tgid 8620 (syz.4.654), ts 255940508668, free_ts 255910733743
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24e0/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xe53/0x1820 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc+0x65/0x100 mm/slub.c:4779
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x6b6/0x920 mm/slub.c:7136
 snd_pcm_plugin_alloc+0x19a/0x780 sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c:74
 snd_pcm_plug_alloc+0x1d7/0x280 sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c:121
 snd_pcm_oss_change_params_locked+0x2ae2/0x3f70 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1041
 snd_pcm_oss_make_ready_locked+0x7d/0x300 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1186
 snd_pcm_oss_write1 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1404 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_write+0x281/0xf20 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2794
 vfs_write+0x27e/0xb30 fs/read_write.c:684
 ksys_write+0x145/0x250 fs/read_write.c:738
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
page last free pid 5199 tgid 5199 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc8/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 __slab_free+0x2ce/0x320 mm/slub.c:6004
 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:4953 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x37d/0x710 mm/slub.c:5270
 getname_flags+0xb8/0x540 fs/namei.c:146
 getname include/linux/fs.h:2498 [inline]
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5474 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:5472 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x3a/0x50 fs/namei.c:5472
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888053a03f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888053a04000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888053a04080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                              ^
 ffff888053a04100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888053a04180: 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
2026/01/06 17:28 upstream 7f98ab9da046 d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.