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KASAN: global-out-of-bounds Read in uevent_store
Status:
upstream: reported syz repro on 2026/08/24 05:35
Subsystems:
kernel
Labels:
prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+d164947c037324221043@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d13h, last: 2h44m
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Last patch testing requests (1)
Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in kobject_action_type lib/kobject_uevent.c:86 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in kobject_synth_uevent+0x79d/0x7d0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:200
Read of size 1 at addr ffffffff8d7101be by task syz.0.17/5909
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 5909 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xdf/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
kobject_action_type lib/kobject_uevent.c:86 [inline]
kobject_synth_uevent+0x79d/0x7d0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:200
uevent_store+0x46/0x90 drivers/base/bus.c:723
drv_attr_store+0x74/0xb0 drivers/base/bus.c:125
sysfs_kf_write+0xf2/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e0/0x5f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
vfs_write+0x6af/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f044c59e0d9
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:00007ffd04c3e3e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f044c825fa0 RCX: 00007f044c59e0d9
RDX: 000000000000003f RSI: 0000200000000300 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f044c635024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f044c825fac R14: 00007f044c825fa0 R15: 00007f044c825fa0
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
uevent_helper_sysctl_table+0xde/0x2a0
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0xd710
flags: 0xfff00000002000(reserved|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000002000 ffffea000035c408 ffffea000035c408 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner info is not present (never set?)
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffffffff8d710080: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00
ffffffff8d710100: 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 07 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
>ffffffff8d710180: 04 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 07 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
^
ffffffff8d710200: 07 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 05 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
ffffffff8d710280: 07 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9
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* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.