KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/24 13:20
Subsystems: media
Labels: prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+c7fc4794e59786f5b4dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d17h, last: 1h24m
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4840cb8d assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail 2026/08/22 01:31 2026/08/22 01:31 2026/08/22 01:35 1e72964b
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[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail 0 (1) 2026/08/24 13:20
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail 19 2 2d10h 2d10h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/22 20:32

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vidtv_bridge_check_demod_lock drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:145 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail+0x126/0x140 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:162
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802dc67118 by task kworker/1:12/13368

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 13368 Comm: kworker/1:12 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Workqueue: events vidtv_mux_tick
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
 vidtv_bridge_check_demod_lock drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:145 [inline]
 vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail+0x126/0x140 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:162
 vidtv_mux_tick+0xb95/0x1460 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:426
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3322
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3405 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2e7/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5489
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 vidtv_demod_i2c_probe+0x6e/0x8a0 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_demod.c:421
 i2c_device_probe+0x658/0xd10 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:593
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3776
 i2c_new_client_device+0x660/0xd30 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1020
 dvb_module_probe+0x165/0x310 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:1039
 vidtv_bridge_probe_demod drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:354 [inline]
 vidtv_bridge_dvb_init drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:430 [inline]
 vidtv_bridge_probe+0x370/0xa30 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:510
 platform_probe+0x106/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1507
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __driver_attach+0x21f/0x5b0 drivers/base/dd.c:1292
 bus_for_each_dev+0x13e/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
 bus_add_driver+0x305/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:763
 driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:174
 vidtv_bridge_init+0x52/0x80 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:602
 do_one_initcall+0x11c/0x6f0 init/main.c:1353
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1415 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1431 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1451 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x6ea/0x7b0 init/main.c:1666
 kernel_init+0x21/0x1e0 init/main.c:1556
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 20213:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2677 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6377 [inline]
 kfree+0x22b/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6692
 i2c_device_remove+0x81/0x280 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:632
 device_remove+0xcb/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:616
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1349 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x44e/0x620 drivers/base/dd.c:1372
 bus_remove_device+0x2bc/0x560 drivers/base/bus.c:664
 device_del+0x376/0x9b0 drivers/base/core.c:3965
 device_unregister+0x1d/0xe0 drivers/base/core.c:4006
 i2c_unregister_device+0xf5/0x270 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1076
 dvb_module_release drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:1061 [inline]
 dvb_module_release+0x69/0x90 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:1055
 vidtv_bridge_remove+0xd8/0x140 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:556
 platform_remove+0x5f/0x80 drivers/base/platform.c:1524
 device_remove+0xcb/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:616
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1349 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x44e/0x620 drivers/base/dd.c:1372
 unbind_store+0xf8/0x110 drivers/base/bus.c:244
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802dc67000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 280 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff88802dc67000, ffff88802dc67800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2dc60
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c022000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c022000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 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 1210, tgid 1210 (kworker/1:2), ts 13830241599, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xf46/0x3500 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x299/0x2dc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3380 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa2/0x660 mm/slub.c:3426
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x372/0x680 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x47b/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5485
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 mousedev_create+0x95/0xb40 drivers/input/mousedev.c:856
 mousedev_connect+0x26/0x310 drivers/input/mousedev.c:981
 input_attach_handler.isra.0+0x177/0x1e0 drivers/input/input.c:1074
 input_register_device.cold+0x139/0x375 drivers/input/input.c:2451
 psmouse_connect+0x772/0xf50 drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:1608
 serio_connect_driver drivers/input/serio/serio.c:44 [inline]
 serio_driver_probe+0x77/0xa0 drivers/input/serio/serio.c:748
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802dc67000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802dc67080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88802dc67100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                            ^
 ffff88802dc67180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802dc67200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (7):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/21 04:00 upstream a4ff2be345d0 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail
2026/08/21 13:44 upstream 818bebeb63dd 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail
2026/08/22 15:30 linux-next 903c1cf6dff9 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail
2026/08/25 05:19 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 68f892e99df9 23caa175 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail
2026/08/22 21:51 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail
2026/08/21 22:58 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail
2026/08/20 13:10 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 21d6ac051080 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.