KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in dummy_free_request

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/07/24 21:58
Reported-by: syzbot+b64626956b36064cb03c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 8d00h, last: 1d06h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in dummy_free_request 17 9 1d16h 8d00h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/07/24 22:09
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in dummy_free_request usb prio:normal 17 83 18h56m 3d22h 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/07/29 00:19
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in dummy_free_request 17 1 1d04h 1d04h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/31 17:51

Sample crash report:
configfs-gadget gadget: uvc: uvc_function_bind()
configfs-gadget gadget: uvc: Unable to allocate streaming EP
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in list_empty include/linux/list.h:290 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in dummy_free_request+0x3b/0x70 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:687
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802bc8c2f0 by task syz.4.73/4560

CPU: 0 PID: 4560 Comm: syz.4.73 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 list_empty include/linux/list.h:290 [inline]
 dummy_free_request+0x3b/0x70 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:687
 uvc_function_bind+0xe24/0x12d0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uvc.c:785
 usb_add_function+0x2d9/0x980 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:324
 configfs_composite_bind+0xa02/0xf60 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1417
 udc_bind_to_driver+0x203/0x5f0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1574
 usb_gadget_probe_driver+0x1fb/0x380 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1637
 gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0x1ba/0x2e0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:289
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x30b/0x400 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2173 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x748/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7ff253e44019
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:00007ff25209c028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ff2540cbfa0 RCX: 00007ff253e44019
RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 00002000000007c0 RDI: 000000000000000a
RBP: 00007ff253edb00c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ff2540cc038 R14: 00007ff2540cbfa0 R15: 00007ffe3445fdf8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4323:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaf/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:612 [inline]
 copy_gadget_strings drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:1400 [inline]
 usb_gstrings_attach+0xe4/0xd80 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:1466
 uvc_function_bind+0x5ba/0x12d0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uvc.c:699
 usb_add_function+0x2d9/0x980 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:324
 configfs_composite_bind+0xa02/0xf60 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1417
 udc_bind_to_driver+0x203/0x5f0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1574
 usb_gadget_probe_driver+0x1fb/0x380 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1637
 gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0x1ba/0x2e0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:289
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x30b/0x400 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2173 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x748/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Freed by task 4482:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 composite_dev_cleanup+0x156/0x6c0 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:2375
 configfs_composite_unbind+0xa8/0x1c0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1462
 usb_gadget_remove_driver+0x15c/0x350 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1495
 usb_gadget_unregister_driver+0x15d/0x4c0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c:1654
 unregister_gadget drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:252 [inline]
 gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store+0x174/0x2e0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:279
 flush_write_buffer fs/configfs/file.c:207 [inline]
 configfs_write_iter+0x30b/0x400 fs/configfs/file.c:229
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2173 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x748/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802bc8c200
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128
The buggy address is located 112 bytes to the right of
 128-byte region [ffff88802bc8c200, ffff88802bc8c280)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0000af2300 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2bc8c
flags: 0xfff00000000200(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000200 ffffea00017f1040 0000000400000004 ffff888016c418c0
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x112cc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY), pid 4333, ts 78322404481, free_ts 78274218728
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 __alloc_pages_node include/linux/gfp.h:570 [inline]
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1782 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xb6/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
 ___slab_alloc+0x807/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0x142/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:4456
 kmalloc_array_node include/linux/slab.h:700 [inline]
 kcalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:705 [inline]
 memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups+0x7d/0x120 mm/memcontrol.c:2839
 memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:313 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0xba/0x380 mm/slab.h:526
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x165/0x290 mm/slub.c:3250
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 fuse_file_alloc+0x52/0x250 fs/fuse/file.c:61
 fuse_file_open+0x16e/0x8d0 fs/fuse/file.c:148
 fuse_do_open fs/fuse/file.c:189 [inline]
 fuse_open_common+0x33a/0x700 fs/fuse/file.c:270
 do_dentry_open+0x7f7/0xf90 fs/open.c:826
 do_open fs/namei.c:3616 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2718/0x2fb0 fs/namei.c:3750
 do_filp_open+0x1df/0x400 fs/namei.c:3777
 do_sys_openat2+0x14b/0x500 fs/open.c:1255
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1271 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1287 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1282 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1282
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 qlist_free_all+0x35/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x150/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xc0 mm/kasan/common.c:444
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x189/0x340 mm/slub.c:4408
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:612 [inline]
 load_elf_phdrs fs/binfmt_elf.c:480 [inline]
 load_elf_binary+0x2b9/0x2910 fs/binfmt_elf.c:860
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1742 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1783 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0xa8d/0x1740 fs/exec.c:1852
 kernel_execve+0x808/0x8e0 fs/exec.c:2013
 call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x207/0x350 kernel/umh.c:112
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802bc8c180: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88802bc8c200: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88802bc8c280: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                                             ^
 ffff88802bc8c300: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802bc8c380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/07/31 16:31 linux-5.15.y 6e2fd6534337 7664cf44 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in dummy_free_request
2026/07/24 22:02 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 dd737a83 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in dummy_free_request
2026/07/24 21:58 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 dd737a83 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in dummy_free_request
2026/07/24 21:57 linux-5.15.y 674f684f7c61 dd737a83 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in dummy_free_request
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.