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memory leak in dvb_register_device

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/02/15 20:54
Subsystems: media usb
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Reported-by: syzbot+d37184d9d8cc34602616@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 20h34m, last: 20h34m
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[syzbot] [media?] [usb?] memory leak in dvb_register_device 0 (1) 2026/02/15 20:54

Sample crash report:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88812b704d80 (size 192):
  comm "kworker/0:10", pid 6154, jiffies 4294943581
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 22 01 00 00 00 00 ad de  ........".......
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ec 21 04 81 88 ff ff  ..........!.....
  backtrace (crc 5efd1503):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4464 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4788 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x377/0x480 mm/slub.c:5292
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:962 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1204 [inline]
    dvb_register_device+0x116/0xaa0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:475
    dvb_dmxdev_init+0x116/0x1d0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c:1425
    dvb_usbv2_adapter_dvb_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c:484 [inline]
    dvb_usbv2_adapter_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c:801 [inline]
    dvb_usbv2_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c:866 [inline]
    dvb_usbv2_probe.cold+0xc63/0xfa9 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb-v2/dvb_usb_core.c:981
    usb_probe_interface+0x246/0x540 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
    call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:583 [inline]
    really_probe+0x12f/0x3a0 drivers/base/dd.c:661
    __driver_probe_device+0xc7/0x160 drivers/base/dd.c:803
    driver_probe_device+0x2a/0x120 drivers/base/dd.c:833
    __device_attach_driver+0x10f/0x170 drivers/base/dd.c:961
    bus_for_each_drv+0xd2/0x130 drivers/base/bus.c:500
    __device_attach+0xf9/0x290 drivers/base/dd.c:1033
    device_initial_probe+0x6f/0x80 drivers/base/dd.c:1088
    bus_probe_device+0x3e/0xb0 drivers/base/bus.c:574
    device_add+0x97c/0xc80 drivers/base/core.c:3689
    usb_set_configuration+0x8f5/0xb80 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2210
    usb_generic_driver_probe+0x73/0xb0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250

connection error: failed to recv *flatrpc.ExecutorMessageRawT: EOF

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/15 14:12 upstream ca4ee40bf13d 1e62d198 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-leak memory leak in dvb_register_device
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.