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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/04/07 20:35
Subsystems: serial
Labels: actionable prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+098cefc0911c68db5dab@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 61d, last: 2d08h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
da83102e-5598-4bbd-9e11-d7837b5e54e8 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event (2) 2026/05/18 02:20 2026/05/18 02:20 2026/05/18 03:15 de5aae85e5f28e2fa1c7deefcc24fe286abe5140
50dc4440-3758-4b9e-ada3-a30fadbf3a44 moderation Actionable: ✅ Confident: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event (2) 2026/04/07 00:02 2026/04/07 00:02 2026/04/07 00:27 4440e7c2e964875f9e35dba6deda12c2195f19d3
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[syzbot] Monthly serial report (Jun 2026) 0 (1) 2026/06/02 20:32
[PATCH RFC] vt: tty: use krefs to fix a potential UAF between kbd_keycode and con_shutdown 1 (1) 2026/04/10 06:55
[syzbot] [serial?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event (2) 0 (1) 2026/04/07 20:35
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event serial 19 1 741d 737d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/08/21 03:07

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888051089418 by task syz.4.2255/13781

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 13781 Comm: syz.4.2255 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __kasan_check_byte+0x2a/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:574
 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:402 [inline]
 lock_acquire+0x84/0x350 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:132 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x40/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:166
 rt_mutex_slowunlock+0xbf/0x8b0 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1426
 kbd_keycode drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1565 [inline]
 kbd_event+0x2f91/0x42f0 drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1583
 input_handle_events_default+0xd4/0x1a0 drivers/input/input.c:2558
 input_pass_values+0x288/0x890 drivers/input/input.c:128
 input_event_dispose+0x330/0x6b0 drivers/input/input.c:342
 input_inject_event+0x1d7/0x320 drivers/input/input.c:424
 evdev_write+0x328/0x4c0 drivers/input/evdev.c:528
 vfs_write+0x2a3/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:686
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f88fefece59
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:00007f88fd23e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f88ff265fa0 RCX: 00007f88fefece59
RDX: 0000000000002250 RSI: 0000200000000040 RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 00007f88ff082d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f88ff266038 R14: 00007f88ff265fa0 R15: 00007ffeca7923c8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 13781:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3a6/0x690 mm/slub.c:5420
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 alloc_tty_struct+0xa6/0x7b0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3102
 tty_init_dev+0x59/0x4d0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1400
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2073 [inline]
 tty_open+0x86e/0xd80 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2120
 chrdev_open+0x4d0/0x5f0 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x83d/0x13e0 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1079
 do_open fs/namei.c:4699 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2e43/0x38a0 fs/namei.c:4858
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4887
 do_sys_openat2+0x113/0x200 fs/open.c:1364
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1370 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1386 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1381 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1381
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 5720:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2689 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6251 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6566
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xbd/0xd0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 insert_work+0x3d/0x330 kernel/workqueue.c:2226
 __queue_work+0xd1d/0x1090 kernel/workqueue.c:2393
 queue_work_on+0x106/0x1d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2444
 tty_release_struct+0xb8/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1692
 tty_release+0xcb6/0x1710 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1852
 __fput+0x461/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:510
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233
 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
 __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:67 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x193/0x680 kernel/entry/common.c:98
 __exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:318 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x353/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888051089000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1048 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888051089000, ffff888051089800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x51088
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff888051088811
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88801a0233c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000100000080008 00000000f5000000 ffff888051088811
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88801a0233c0 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000100000080008 00000000f5000000 ffff888051088811
head: 0080000000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5608, tgid 5608 (syz-executor), ts 321516563172, free_ts 321503559771
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x22d/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1853
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1861 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x28b2/0x2930 mm/page_alloc.c:3941
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5221
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x33c/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7272
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x373/0x720 mm/slub.c:4652
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4750 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4884 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5295 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x6f4/0x8e0 mm/slub.c:6833
 alloc_fdtable+0x101/0x2c0 fs/file.c:219
 dup_fd+0x879/0xb70 fs/file.c:420
 copy_files+0xc8/0x120 kernel/fork.c:1639
 copy_process+0x1d9c/0x4450 kernel/fork.c:2252
 kernel_clone+0x2d2/0x8d0 kernel/fork.c:2722
 __do_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2863 [inline]
 __se_sys_clone kernel/fork.c:2847 [inline]
 __x64_sys_clone+0x1b6/0x230 kernel/fork.c:2847
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 5590 tgid 5590 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1397 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xfe5/0x10d0 mm/page_alloc.c:2938
 __folio_put+0x2eb/0x3a0 mm/swap.c:112
 folio_put include/linux/mm.h:2090 [inline]
 put_page include/linux/mm.h:2159 [inline]
 put_netmem include/net/netmem.h:394 [inline]
 skb_page_unref include/linux/skbuff_ref.h:43 [inline]
 __skb_frag_unref include/linux/skbuff_ref.h:56 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x544/0xa60 net/core/skbuff.c:1108
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1189 [inline]
 __kfree_skb+0x5d/0x210 net/core/skbuff.c:1203
 tcp_clean_rtx_queue net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3698 [inline]
 tcp_ack+0x284f/0x7e00 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4370
 tcp_rcv_established+0x8c4/0x2800 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6645
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x959/0x13f0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1851
 sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1190 [inline]
 __release_sock+0x285/0x3d0 net/core/sock.c:3216
 release_sock+0x1be/0x290 net/core/sock.c:3815
 tcp_sendmsg+0x39/0x50 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1453
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x40c/0x4f0 net/socket.c:1254
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x629/0xba0 fs/read_write.c:688
 ksys_write+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:740
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888051089300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888051089380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888051089400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff888051089480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888051089500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/01 00:46 upstream 8d9c51eac648 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/28 16:40 upstream eb3f4b7426cf 9a5a7e5e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/23 10:59 upstream 45255ea1ca09 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/18 13:30 upstream 5200f5f493f7 55156e84 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/17 19:44 upstream 6916d5703ddf de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/11 11:53 upstream 5d6919055dec e6eb7c0b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/03 23:43 upstream f377d0025eb0 a0d91488 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/04/02 19:24 upstream 5619b098e2fb 8b15d4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/11 13:22 linux-next e98d21c170b0 e6eb7c0b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
2026/05/10 14:23 linux-next e98d21c170b0 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in kbd_event
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.