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

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/08/07 13:50
Reported-by: syzbot+c20dc89a65a25cedfb49@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 207d, last: 4d04h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-12 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in read_report_descriptor origin:upstream 19 C 15 7d17h 246d 0/1 premoderation: reported C repro on 2025/06/29 07:21

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in read_report_descriptor+0xb2/0xf0 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2159
Read of size 5 at addr ffff88802bf14578 by task fido_id/6007

CPU: 1 PID: 6007 Comm: fido_id Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x241/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:187
 __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105
 read_report_descriptor+0xb2/0xf0 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2159
 kernfs_file_read_iter fs/kernfs/file.c:269 [inline]
 kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x42d/0x670 fs/kernfs/file.c:298
 call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2012 [inline]
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:389 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x46a/0x970 fs/read_write.c:470
 ksys_read+0x150/0x260 fs/read_write.c:613
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f2e594a7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007fffc50e2510 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2e59b70880 RCX: 00007f2e594a7407
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007fffc50e2560 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 0000565550ea7730 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000565550ea6930
R13: 00007fffc50e2560 R14: 0000000000000004 R15: 0000565527da74d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5152:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:198 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1007 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xb2/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1027
 kmemdup+0x2b/0x70 mm/util.c:131
 kmemdup include/linux/fortify-string.h:779 [inline]
 hid_open_report+0x1cd/0xee0 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:1241
 hid_parse include/linux/hid.h:1122 [inline]
 ps_probe+0x25/0x4250 drivers/hid/hid-playstation.c:2645
 __hid_device_probe drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2649 [inline]
 hid_device_probe+0x293/0x5b0 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2686
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c2/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1030
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:534
 device_add+0x85b/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3683
 hid_add_device+0x38d/0x530 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2832
 usbhid_probe+0xe02/0x1220 drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:1447
 usb_probe_interface+0x5c9/0xb20 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c2/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1030
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:534
 device_add+0x85b/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3683
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a79/0x20c0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2207
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x13d/0x270 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c2/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1030
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:534
 device_add+0x85b/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3683
 usb_new_device+0xa3c/0x1660 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2660
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5529 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5669 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833 [inline]
 hub_event+0x29bf/0x49f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5915
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Freed by task 5152:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:3843
 hid_close_report+0x605/0x6d0 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:688
 __hid_device_probe drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2666 [inline]
 hid_device_probe+0x3da/0x5b0 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2686
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c2/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1030
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:534
 device_add+0x85b/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3683
 hid_add_device+0x38d/0x530 drivers/hid/hid-core.c:2832
 usbhid_probe+0xe02/0x1220 drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c:1447
 usb_probe_interface+0x5c9/0xb20 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c2/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1030
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:534
 device_add+0x85b/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3683
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a79/0x20c0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2207
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x13d/0x270 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c2/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1030
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:534
 device_add+0x85b/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3683
 usb_new_device+0xa3c/0x1660 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2660
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5529 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5669 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833 [inline]
 hub_event+0x29bf/0x49f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5915
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802bf14578
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8 of size 8
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
 freed 8-byte region [ffff88802bf14578, ffff88802bf14580)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0000afc500 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2bf14
flags: 0xfff00000000800(slab|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000800 ffff888017c41280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080660066 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 0x112c00(GFP_NOIO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 5152, tgid 5152 (kworker/0:3), ts 90890813139, free_ts 90890296150
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1581
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1588 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1951/0x19e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3220
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4486
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5d/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x19e/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa4/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:637 [inline]
 usb_set_configuration+0x351/0x20c0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2028
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x13d/0x270 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1181 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7b2/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2365
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2458
 mm_free_pgd kernel/fork.c:809 [inline]
 __mmdrop+0xb4/0x3d0 kernel/fork.c:925
 exit_mm+0x1f2/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:569
 do_exit+0x8dd/0x2460 kernel/exit.c:870
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1024
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1035 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1033 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1033
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802bf14400: fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 06 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc
 ffff88802bf14480: fc 00 fc fc fc fc 00 fc fc fc fc 06 fc fc fc fc
>ffff88802bf14500: fa fc fc fc fc 05 fc fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fc fa
                                                                ^
 ffff88802bf14580: fc fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fc 00 fc
 ffff88802bf14600: fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fc fa fc fc fc fc fa fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/26 13:38 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e ffa54287 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in read_report_descriptor
2026/02/13 09:42 linux-6.6.y 1b4ef5214f17 6a673c50 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in read_report_descriptor
2025/12/27 15:21 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in read_report_descriptor
2025/09/20 17:38 linux-6.6.y af1544b5d072 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in read_report_descriptor
2025/08/07 13:49 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 04cffc22 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in read_report_descriptor
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.