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memory leak in ldisc_receive

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/17 17:34
Subsystems: net usb input
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Reported-by: syzbot+f9d847b2b84164fa69f3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 9d23h, last: 9d23h
Discussions (3)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH v2] net: caif: fix memory leak in ldisc_receive 5 (5) 2026/01/19 07:00
[PATCH] net: caif: fix memory leak in ldisc_receive 3 (3) 2026/01/18 17:35
[syzbot] [net?] [input?] [usb?] memory leak in ldisc_receive 0 (1) 2026/01/17 17:34

Sample crash report:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888109d88b00 (size 240):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 6088, jiffies 4294942822
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 20 8e 13 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  . ..............
  backtrace (crc cd2b8445):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4958 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x384/0x5a0 mm/slub.c:5315
    __alloc_skb+0xe8/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:679
    __netdev_alloc_skb+0x72/0x230 net/core/skbuff.c:754
    netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3484 [inline]
    ldisc_receive+0x7d/0x210 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:176
    tiocsti drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2290 [inline]
    tty_ioctl+0x329/0xd40 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2706
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
    __x64_sys_ioctl+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810a368500 (size 240):
  comm "syz.0.18", pid 6193, jiffies 4294942941
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 20 94 13 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  . ..............
  backtrace (crc 5d1300cb):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4958 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x384/0x5a0 mm/slub.c:5315
    __alloc_skb+0xe8/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:679
    __netdev_alloc_skb+0x72/0x230 net/core/skbuff.c:754
    netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3484 [inline]
    ldisc_receive+0x7d/0x210 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:176
    tiocsti drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2290 [inline]
    tty_ioctl+0x329/0xd40 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2706
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
    __x64_sys_ioctl+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810a9e2c00 (size 704):
  comm "syz.0.18", pid 6193, jiffies 4294942941
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace (crc b6200c):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4958 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x384/0x5a0 mm/slub.c:5315
    kmalloc_reserve+0xe6/0x180 net/core/skbuff.c:586
    __alloc_skb+0x111/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:690
    __netdev_alloc_skb+0x72/0x230 net/core/skbuff.c:754
    netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3484 [inline]
    ldisc_receive+0x7d/0x210 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:176
    tiocsti drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2290 [inline]
    tty_ioctl+0x329/0xd40 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2706
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
    __x64_sys_ioctl+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888109ddda00 (size 240):
  comm "syz.0.19", pid 6262, jiffies 4294943059
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 50 8e 13 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .P..............
  backtrace (crc 3f6ba7c1):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4958 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x384/0x5a0 mm/slub.c:5315
    __alloc_skb+0xe8/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:679
    __netdev_alloc_skb+0x72/0x230 net/core/skbuff.c:754
    netdev_alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:3484 [inline]
    ldisc_receive+0x7d/0x210 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:176
    tiocsti drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2290 [inline]
    tty_ioctl+0x329/0xd40 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2706
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
    __x64_sys_ioctl+0xf4/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

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
2026/01/13 17:23 upstream b71e635feefc d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-leak memory leak in ldisc_receive
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.