KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/30 00:19
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+6b16e3d085833cbf3e25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 9d13h, last: 1d06h
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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448985c0 patching 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get 2026/07/30 08:49 2026/07/30 08:49 2026/07/30 11:46 2377cd3d 
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			android-6-12
			
				KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get
			
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						premoderation: reported syz repro on 2026/07/30 06:38
					
				
			
			
		

	
		

			linux-5.15
			
				KASAN: use-after-free Write in config_item_get
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						upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/25 19:17
					
				
			
			
		

	
		

			android-5-15
			
				KASAN: use-after-free Write in config_item_get
			
			22
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						upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/28 10:17
					
				
			
			
		

	
		

			android-5-10
			
				KASAN: use-after-free Write in config_item_get
			
			22
			syz, C
			
			
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						upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/26 20:05
					
				
			
			
		

	
	





			
			
			
			
		

	

	

	
	
Sample crash report:

	
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:252 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:283 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:366 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:383 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in config_item_get+0x26/0x90 fs/configfs/item.c:104
Write of size 4 at addr ffff888039f5201c by task syz.3.408/6784

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6784 Comm: syz.3.408 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
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
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_add_relaxed include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:252 [inline]
 __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:283 [inline]
 __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:366 [inline]
 refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:383 [inline]
 kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]
 config_item_get+0x26/0x90 fs/configfs/item.c:104
 configfs_get_config_item fs/configfs/configfs_internal.h:127 [inline]
 get_target fs/configfs/symlink.c:128 [inline]
 configfs_symlink+0x4ab/0x1030 fs/configfs/symlink.c:185
 vfs_symlink+0x18b/0x330 fs/namei.c:5660
 filename_symlinkat+0x1cd/0x420 fs/namei.c:5685
 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:5705 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlinkat+0x4e/0x2b0 fs/namei.c:5700
 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: 0033:0x7f98f891de99
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:00007f98f7f7e028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000010a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f98f8ba5fa0 RCX: 00007f98f891de99
RDX: 0000200000000340 RSI: ffffffffffffff9c RDI: 0000200000000300
RBP: 00007f98f89b3eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f98f8ba6038 R14: 00007f98f8ba5fa0 R15: 00007ffce9af1ce8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6785:
 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+0x3d2/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5489
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 afunc_alloc_inst+0x4c/0x770 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac2.c:2192
 try_get_usb_function_instance drivers/usb/gadget/functions.c:28 [inline]
 usb_get_function_instance+0xe3/0x2f0 drivers/usb/gadget/functions.c:44
 function_make+0x127/0x360 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:626
 configfs_mkdir+0x4f6/0x9e0 fs/configfs/dir.c:1360
 vfs_mkdir+0x402/0x620 fs/namei.c:5276
 filename_mkdirat+0x289/0x520 fs/namei.c:5309
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:5330 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat+0x35/0x150 fs/namei.c:5327
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888039f52000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888039f52000, ffff888039f52800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888039f50000 pfn:0x39f50
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000240 ffff88813ffb2000 ffffea0000d6de10 ffffea0000f10610
raw: ffff888039f50000 0000000800080005 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000240 ffff88813ffb2000 ffffea0000d6de10 ffffea0000f10610
head: ffff888039f50000 0000000800080005 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
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 0xd2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5743, tgid 5743 (syz-executor), ts 119768577290, free_ts 119599127308
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x262a/0x26a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x79/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:3380
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3426 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x330/0x690 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x468/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 batadv_hardif_add_interface net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:878 [inline]
 batadv_hard_if_event+0x282a/0x3530 net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c:1087
 notifier_call_chain+0x1a5/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2288 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2302 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x18c0/0x1ed0 net/core/dev.c:11484
 nsim_init_netdevsim drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c:1070 [inline]
 nsim_create+0xbe9/0x1160 drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c:1152
 __nsim_dev_port_add+0x7f8/0xcd0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:1509
 nsim_dev_port_add_all+0x37/0xf0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:1570
 nsim_drv_probe+0x8d6/0xc00 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:1731
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
page last free pid 5908 tgid 5908 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x10e7/0x11c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2950
 __slab_free+0x252/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:5741
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4584 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4917 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x355/0x650 mm/slub.c:4931
 vm_area_alloc+0x24/0x140 mm/vma_init.c:32
 __mmap_new_vma mm/vma.c:2547 [inline]
 __mmap_region mm/vma.c:2774 [inline]
 mmap_region+0x1263/0x2310 mm/vma.c:2860
 do_mmap+0xc1e/0x10b0 mm/mmap.c:560
 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x275/0x4e0 mm/util.c:581
 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x4a6/0x720 mm/mmap.c:606
 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:
 ffff888039f51f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888039f51f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888039f52000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff888039f52080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888039f52100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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			2026/07/29 10:35
			upstream
			fc02acf6ac0c
			19622d9d
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			ci2-upstream-fs
			KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get
		

		
		

			2026/07/29 07:52
			upstream
			fc02acf6ac0c
			19622d9d
			.config
			console log
			report
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			ci2-upstream-fs
			KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get
		

		
		

			2026/07/25 08:26
			upstream
			e2a936998ab2
			492bab15
			.config
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			C
			
			
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			ci2-upstream-fs
			KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get
		

		
		

			2026/08/02 15:00
			linux-next
			cc2b5f627e8c
			e611ffe1
			.config
			strace log
			report
			syz / log
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			ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce
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			2026/07/29 09:49
			linux-next
			cc2b5f627e8c
			19622d9d
			.config
			console log
			report
			syz / log
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				[disk image]
			
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			ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce
			KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get
		

		
		

			2026/07/27 06:33
			upstream
			4235cb24ec1e
			4a865b71
			.config
			console log
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			KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get
		

		
		

			2026/07/29 20:58
			linux-next
			cc2b5f627e8c
			cb1587ea
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			KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in config_item_get
		

		
		

			2026/07/28 11:51
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			62cc90241548
			45ae1df4
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