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

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/10/21 10:48
Subsystems: sound
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Reported-by: syzbot+addf1973f8732e2cc468@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 101d, last: 3d13h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[syzbot] [sound?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action 1 (3) 2025/12/22 02:28

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 ffff888034ea7200 by task syz.1.1236/9742

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9742 Comm: syz.1.1236 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
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
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:573
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:401 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x84/0x340 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+0x1762/0x1d00 sound/core/pcm_lib.c:2405
 snd_pcm_oss_write3+0x1bc/0x350 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1241
 snd_pcm_plug_write_transfer+0x2cb/0x4c0 sound/core/oss/pcm_plugin.c:630
 snd_pcm_oss_write2 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1373 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_write1 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:1439 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_write+0xa31/0xf20 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2794
 vfs_write+0x287/0xb40 fs/read_write.c:684
 ksys_write+0x14b/0x260 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
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f1277acf749
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:00007f1277115038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1277d26090 RCX: 00007f1277acf749
RDX: 0000000000004000 RSI: 00002000000012c0 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f1277b53f91 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1277d26128 R14: 00007f1277d26090 R15: 00007ffea9722d18
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 9740:
 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:397 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:414
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:262 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1fb/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5776
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 snd_pcm_attach_substream+0x5b7/0xb30 sound/core/pcm.c:938
 snd_pcm_open_substream+0xb6/0x2410 sound/core/pcm_native.c:2756
 snd_pcm_oss_open_file sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2437 [inline]
 snd_pcm_oss_open+0xf2a/0x1bd0 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c:2518
 chrdev_open+0x4cf/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x7d0/0x1270 fs/open.c:962
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1094
 do_open fs/namei.c:4628 [inline]
 path_openat+0x342a/0x3df0 fs/namei.c:4787
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4814
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x200 fs/open.c:1430
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1447
 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

Freed by task 9740:
 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:584
 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:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
 kfree+0x1bd/0x900 mm/slub.c:6878
 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:233
 get_signal+0x11c4/0x1310 kernel/signal.c:2807
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x9a/0x7a0 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:41 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x87/0x4e0 kernel/entry/common.c:75
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:159 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:194 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x2b7/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888034ea7000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 512 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888034ea7000, ffff888034ea7800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x34ea0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff27000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff27000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 ffffea0000d3a801 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 0xd28c0(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5917, tgid 5917 (syz-executor), ts 127811454833, free_ts 125843464373
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1846
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1854 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x28c0/0x2960 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 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+0xb10/0x13e0 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc+0xc6/0x1f0 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]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x2bf/0x810 mm/slub.c:5764
 kmalloc_reserve+0x136/0x290 net/core/skbuff.c:608
 pskb_expand_head+0x19d/0x1160 net/core/skbuff.c:2282
 netlink_trim+0x1b3/0x2c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1299
 netlink_broadcast_filtered+0xd6/0x1000 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1512
 nlmsg_multicast_filtered include/net/netlink.h:1165 [inline]
 nlmsg_multicast include/net/netlink.h:1184 [inline]
 nlmsg_notify+0xf0/0x1a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2593
 rtnl_notify net/core/rtnetlink.c:958 [inline]
 rtmsg_ifinfo_send net/core/rtnetlink.c:4436 [inline]
 rtmsg_ifinfo_event net/core/rtnetlink.c:4452 [inline]
 rtnetlink_event+0x224/0x270 net/core/rtnetlink.c:7018
 notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
 netif_change_name+0x5db/0x970 net/core/dev.c:1490
page last free pid 5966 tgid 5966 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xfe1/0x1170 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x149/0x170 mm/slub.c:3886
 __slab_free+0x2af/0x330 mm/slub.c:5952
 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:349
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:252 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x18d/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5270
 getname_flags+0xb8/0x540 fs/namei.c:146
 user_path_at+0x24/0x60 fs/namei.c:3566
 user_statfs+0x94/0x170 fs/statfs.c:103
 __do_sys_statfs fs/statfs.c:193 [inline]
 __se_sys_statfs fs/statfs.c:190 [inline]
 __x64_sys_statfs+0xe0/0x1b0 fs/statfs.c:190
 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:
 ffff888034ea7100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888034ea7180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888034ea7200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff888034ea7280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888034ea7300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (11):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/12/22 00:11 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_pcm_action
2025/12/21 19:00 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .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
2025/12/21 13:16 upstream 9094662f6707 d6526ea3 .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
2025/12/09 16:00 upstream cb015814f8b6 d6526ea3 .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
2025/11/16 01:40 upstream f824272b6e3f f7988ea4 .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
2025/11/11 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.