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

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/10/21 10:48
Subsystems: sound
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Reported-by: syzbot+addf1973f8732e2cc468@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 61d, last: 3d19h
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[syzbot] [sound?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action 0 (1) 2025/10/21 10:48

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rt_spin_lock+0x88/0x3e0 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:56
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88803c5f0200 by task syz.9.2581/15475

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 15475 Comm: syz.9.2581 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 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
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:580
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:401 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x8d/0x360 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842
 rt_spin_lock+0x88/0x3e0 kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:56
 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_rt.h:44 [inline]
 __wake_up_common_lock+0x2f/0x1e0 kernel/sched/wait.c:124
 snd_pcm_action_single sound/core/pcm_native.c:-1 [inline]
 snd_pcm_action+0x1f4/0x240 sound/core/pcm_native.c:1393
 loopback_check_format sound/drivers/aloop.c:363 [inline]
 loopback_trigger+0xb82/0x1b60 sound/drivers/aloop.c:411
 snd_pcm_do_start+0xb7/0x180 sound/core/pcm_native.c:1454
 snd_pcm_action_single sound/core/pcm_native.c:1310 [inline]
 snd_pcm_action+0xe7/0x240 sound/core/pcm_native.c:1393
 __snd_pcm_lib_xfer+0x1762/0x1ce0 sound/core/pcm_lib.c:2405
 snd_pcm_oss_write3+0x1bc/0x320 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1241
 snd_pcm_oss_write2 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1381 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_sync1+0x345/0x760 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1615
 snd_pcm_oss_sync+0x86c/0xc30 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1680
 snd_pcm_oss_release+0x102/0x250 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2573
 __fput+0x45b/0xa80 fs/file_table.c:468
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe9/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:43
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f03ca8bf6c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffdfb811f08 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f03cab17da0 RCX: 00007f03ca8bf6c9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f03cab17da0 R08: 00000000000003ec R09: 00000005fb8121ff
R10: 00007f03cab17cb0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000126406
R13: 00007f03cab16090 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 00007ffdfb812020
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 15476:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:400 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:417
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1ef/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5767
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 snd_pcm_attach_substream+0x5b7/0xb50 sound/core/pcm.c:938
 snd_pcm_open_substream+0xb9/0x23a0 sound/core/pcm_native.c:2756
 snd_pcm_oss_open_file sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2437 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_open+0xf35/0x1bf0 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2518
 chrdev_open+0x4cf/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x9b1/0x1350 fs/open.c:965
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1097
 do_open fs/namei.c:3975 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2ef1/0x3840 fs/namei.c:4134
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4161
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1437
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1468 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1463 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1463
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 15476:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:77
 __kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:587
 kasan_save_free_info mm/kasan/kasan.h:406 [inline]
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:252 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:284
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2539 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6634 [inline]
 kfree+0x197/0x950 mm/slub.c:6841
 snd_pcm_detach_substream+0x1e1/0x290 sound/core/pcm.c:1003
 snd_pcm_oss_release_file sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2396 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_release+0x184/0x250 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2575
 __fput+0x45b/0xa80 fs/file_table.c:468
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe9/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:43
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2bd/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88803c5f0000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 512 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff88803c5f0000, ffff88803c5f0800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x3c5f0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
anon flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff27000 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff27000 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 ffffea0000f17c01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 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 0x52820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 11667, tgid 11667 (kworker/u8:11), ts 934429167010, free_ts 934329684289
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1850
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1858 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3884
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5183
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3055 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x96/0x350 mm/slub.c:3228
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3282 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xb10/0x1400 mm/slub.c:4651
 __slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:4774
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5272 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5645 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x14b/0x7d0 mm/slub.c:5658
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 neigh_alloc net/core/neighbour.c:522 [inline]
 ___neigh_create+0x722/0x2360 net/core/neighbour.c:656
 ip6_finish_output2+0xa55/0x14c0 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:128
 NF_HOOK_COND include/linux/netfilter.h:307 [inline]
 ip6_output+0x340/0x550 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:247
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:318 [inline]
 ndisc_send_skb+0xbce/0x1510 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:512
 addrconf_dad_completed+0x7c6/0xd70 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4360
 addrconf_dad_work+0xd0d/0x15a0 include/linux/rwlock_rt.h:-1
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3263 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3346
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
page last free pid 7705 tgid 7705 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1394 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xfb6/0x1140 mm/page_alloc.c:2906
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3326 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x149/0x170 mm/slub.c:3872
 __slab_free+0x29e/0x370 mm/slub.c:5925
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x140 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:352
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4974 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5284 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x181/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5762
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 nsim_fib6_rt_create drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:547 [inline]
 nsim_fib6_rt_insert drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:752 [inline]
 nsim_fib6_event drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:856 [inline]
 nsim_fib_event+0xca1/0x8a30 drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:889
 nsim_fib_event_work+0x26b/0x3e0 drivers/net/netdevsim/fib.c:1493
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3263 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3346
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3427
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x4bc/0x870 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:
 ffff88803c5f0100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803c5f0180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88803c5f0200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff88803c5f0280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803c5f0300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/11 10:57 upstream 4ea7c1717f3f 4e1406b4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/10/21 10:47 upstream 211ddde0823f 9832ed61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/09/24 19:24 upstream cec1e6e5d1ab 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/09/24 19:19 upstream cec1e6e5d1ab 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/09/18 20:36 upstream 8b789f2b7602 e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/09/14 18:51 upstream f83a4f2a4d8c e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.