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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/06 15:25
Subsystems: fs
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+302b9b575a06733ff60c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d18h, last: 6d15h
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246bfc96 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit 2026/08/09 10:33 2026/08/09 10:33 2026/08/09 10:36 5d63f80b
c667d645 repro-c Reproduced: ✅
❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit 2026/08/07 14:02 2026/08/07 23:53 2026/08/08 01:48 e4ef95d6
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[PATCH v2] media: redrat3: fix UAF in probe error path leaving rc device registered 1 (1) 2026/08/09 03:20
[PATCH] media: redrat3: fix UAF in probe error path leaving rc device registered 1 (1) 2026/08/08 21:42
[syzbot] [fs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit 0 (1) 2026/08/06 15:25
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Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/08 08:25 22m nogikh@google.com upstream error

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:648 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in string+0x216/0x2d0 lib/vsprintf.c:730
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888051fda758 by task udevd/7464

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7464 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(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
 string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:648 [inline]
 string+0x216/0x2d0 lib/vsprintf.c:730
 vsnprintf+0x74a/0xef0 lib/vsprintf.c:2945
 vscnprintf+0x41/0x90 lib/vsprintf.c:3014
 sysfs_emit+0x10e/0x180 fs/sysfs/file.c:761
 input_dev_show_name+0x58/0x70 drivers/input/input.c:1282
 dev_attr_show+0x58/0xc0 drivers/base/core.c:2487
 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x331/0x490 fs/sysfs/file.c:65
 seq_read_iter+0x463/0xca0 fs/seq_file.c:231
 new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:493 [inline]
 vfs_read+0x595/0xa80 fs/read_write.c:574
 ksys_read+0x150/0x270 fs/read_write.c:716
 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: 0033:0x7fe991ca7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffc9989ac00 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe9924aa880 RCX: 00007fe991ca7407
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffc9989b0e0 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000562578d85a20
R13: 00007ffc9989ace0 R14: 00007ffc9989b0e0 R15: 0000562548648bcc
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 10:
 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+0x32d/0x660 mm/slub.c:5489
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 redrat3_dev_probe+0x477/0x2570 drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:1023
 usb_probe_interface+0x653/0xc60 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 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
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c4/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_set_configuration+0x1ad8/0x2180 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c3/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 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
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c4/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_new_device+0x99d/0x1620 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x28e8/0x4d30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 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

Freed by task 10:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 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:2677 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6377 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x640 mm/slub.c:6692
 redrat3_delete drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:466 [inline]
 redrat3_dev_probe+0x1bf4/0x2570 drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:1124
 usb_probe_interface+0x653/0xc60 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 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
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c4/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_set_configuration+0x1ad8/0x2180 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c3/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 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
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c4/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_new_device+0x99d/0x1620 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x28e8/0x4d30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888051fda000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1880 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff888051fda000, ffff888051fda800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x51fd8
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 ffff88801b002000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b002000 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 1094, tgid 1094 (kworker/u8:7), ts 96851722653, free_ts 25791140797
 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+0x21fa/0x2270 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+0x2d5/0x350 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2bf/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5333 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x557/0x730 mm/slub.c:5471
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:637 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x2bd/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:715
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
 mld_newpack+0x165/0xcb0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1789
 add_grhead net/ipv6/mcast.c:1900 [inline]
 add_grec+0x119f/0x19d0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2039
 mld_send_initial_cr+0x288/0x550 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2284
 ipv6_mc_dad_complete+0x87/0x410 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2295
 addrconf_dad_completed+0x8af/0xe60 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4375
 addrconf_dad_work+0xcf8/0x15c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
page last free pid 1 tgid 1 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare+0x960/0xa60 mm/page_alloc.c:1451
 __free_contig_range_common+0x174/0x340 mm/page_alloc.c:6897
 destroy_args+0x4e5/0x570 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:993
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x3f8/0x410 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1368
 do_one_initcall+0x250/0x870 init/main.c:1347
 do_initcall_level+0x10a/0x1a0 init/main.c:1409
 do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0 init/main.c:1425
 kernel_init_freeable+0x29d/0x3e0 init/main.c:1658
 kernel_init+0x1d/0x1d0 init/main.c:1548
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888051fda600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888051fda680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888051fda700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                    ^
 ffff888051fda780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888051fda800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/04 16:13 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit
2026/08/04 15:17 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit
2026/08/04 13:22 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit
2026/08/04 13:05 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit
2026/08/04 13:05 upstream 848acc8ffe1b 3c5eaa21 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sysfs_emit
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.