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

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/04 02:08
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:normal actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+4a5c87a01894ca37f25c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 53d, last: 17d
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1 moderation 2026/08/07 06:25 Discussion d40043f8-d813-4477-b6e2-0f071c04be7c
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
d40043f8 patching ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb 2026/08/06 07:07 2026/08/07 05:35 2026/08/07 06:25 c38879ea
c99ba3b6 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb 2026/08/05 14:59 2026/08/05 14:59 2026/08/05 15:31 e33390b8
dd313d2e moderation Actionable: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb 2026/08/04 02:04 2026/08/04 02:04 2026/08/04 02:08 cb1adeae
c78bcc69 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb 2026/08/01 02:35 2026/08/01 02:35 2026/08/01 03:29 7664cf44
▶ ▼ Discussions (8)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH usb-next v2] USB: gadget: Fix UAF on refcount inside gadgetfs_bind() 1 (1) 2026/09/05 00:36
[PATCH usb-next v2] USB: gadget: Fix UAF in gadgetfs_fill_super() 1 (1) 2026/09/05 00:35
Re: [PATCH usb-next v1] USB: gadget: Fix UAF in gadgetfs_fill_super() 4 (4) 2026/09/04 16:33
[PATCH usb-next v1] USB: gadget: Fix UAF on refcount inside gadgetfs_bind() 2 (2) 2026/09/02 14:40
[PATCH usb-next v1] USB: gadget: Fix UAF in gadgetfs_fill_super() 2 (2) 2026/09/02 14:38
[PATCH usb-next v2] USB: gadgetfs: Fix use-after-free in gadgetfs_kill_sb 8 (8) 2026/09/02 01:49
[PATCH usb-next v1] USB: gadgetfs: Fix use-after-free in gadgetfs_kill_sb 2 (2) 2026/08/28 14:00
[syzbot] [usb?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb 0 (2) 2026/08/05 18:51
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb 22 1 20d 20d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/09/01 15:24
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb usb 22 syz, C error 5 1344d 1378d 22/29 fixed on 2023/06/08 14:41
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (2)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/20 10:19 0m retest repro upstream error job log
2026/08/05 17:15 27m glider@google.com upstream report log
▶ ▼ Cause bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/20 17:39 0m bisect upstream error

Sample crash report:
 </TASK>
udc dummy_udc.0: failed to start USB Gadget filesystem: -12
gadgetfs gadget.0: probe with driver gadgetfs failed with error -12
gadgetfs: bound to dummy_udc driver
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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_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in put_dev drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:165 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in gadgetfs_kill_sb+0x46/0x110 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2104
Write of size 4 at addr ffff888034069080 by task syz-executor187/5951

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5951 Comm: syz-executor187 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
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_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
 put_dev drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:165 [inline]
 gadgetfs_kill_sb+0x46/0x110 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2104
 deactivate_locked_super+0xbc/0x130 fs/super.c:477
 cleanup_mnt+0x3d3/0x460 fs/namespace.c:1317
 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:70 [inline]
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1fa/0x730 kernel/entry/common.c:101
 __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
RIP: 0033:0x7f9c403c3027
Code: a2 c7 05 54 b0 08 00 00 00 00 00 eb 96 e8 a1 08 00 00 90 31 f6 e9 09 00 00 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 b8 a6 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 01 c3 48 c7 c2 d8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 02 b8
RSP: 002b:00007ffc402c5578 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a6
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007f9c403c3027
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007f9c4041d05e
RBP: 00007f9c4041d05e R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f9c4041d623
R13: 00007ffc402c56d0 R14: 00007f9c4041f510 R15: 00007f9c4041f4e8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5951:
 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]
 dev_new drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:176 [inline]
 gadgetfs_fill_super+0x27b/0x7a0 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2054
 vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1273 [inline]
 get_tree_single+0xc0/0x150 fs/super.c:1300
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2a0 fs/super.c:1700
 fc_mount fs/namespace.c:1198 [inline]
 do_new_mount_fc fs/namespace.c:3765 [inline]
 do_new_mount+0x319/0xdc0 fs/namespace.c:3841
 do_mount fs/namespace.c:4174 [inline]
 __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:4390 [inline]
 __se_sys_mount+0x31d/0x420 fs/namespace.c:4367
 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 5951:
 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+0x1c5/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6692
 put_dev drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:169 [inline]
 dev_release+0x173/0x210 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:1215
 __fput+0x42a/0xa80 fs/file_table.c:512
 fput_close_sync+0x11f/0x240 fs/file_table.c:617
 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1511 [inline]
 __se_sys_close fs/open.c:1496 [inline]
 __x64_sys_close+0x7e/0x110 fs/open.c:1496
 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 ffff888034069000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 128 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff888034069000, ffff888034069400)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888034069800 pfn:0x34068
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 ffff88813ffb2dc0 ffffea0000d33e10 ffffea0000a85210
raw: ffff888034069800 0000000800100007 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000240 ffff88813ffb2dc0 ffffea0000d33e10 ffffea0000a85210
head: ffff888034069800 0000000800100007 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5659, tgid 5659 (syz-executor), ts 91566899744, free_ts 90984522889
 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]
 afs_alloc_call+0x79/0x580 fs/afs/rxrpc.c:171
 afs_charge_preallocation+0x273/0x570 fs/afs/rxrpc.c:755
 afs_open_socket+0x33c/0x3f0 fs/afs/rxrpc.c:112
 afs_net_init+0x6ce/0x8f0 fs/afs/main.c:116
 ops_init+0x35d/0x5d0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137
 setup_net+0x118/0x350 net/core/net_namespace.c:446
 copy_net_ns+0x4f9/0x720 net/core/net_namespace.c:579
 create_new_namespaces+0x3f0/0x6b0 kernel/nsproxy.c:132
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x149/0x190 kernel/nsproxy.c:234
page last free pid 10 tgid 10 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
 kasan_depopulate_vmalloc_pte+0x6d/0x90 mm/kasan/shadow.c:484
 apply_to_pte_range mm/memory.c:3338 [inline]
 apply_to_pmd_range mm/memory.c:3382 [inline]
 apply_to_pud_range mm/memory.c:3418 [inline]
 apply_to_p4d_range mm/memory.c:3454 [inline]
 __apply_to_page_range+0xbd8/0x1420 mm/memory.c:3490
 __kasan_release_vmalloc+0xa2/0xd0 mm/kasan/shadow.c:602
 kasan_release_vmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:593 [inline]
 kasan_release_vmalloc_node mm/vmalloc.c:2284 [inline]
 purge_vmap_node+0x220/0x960 mm/vmalloc.c:2306
 __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x783/0xb40 mm/vmalloc.c:2396
 drain_vmap_area_work+0x27/0x40 mm/vmalloc.c:2430
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888034068f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888034069000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888034069080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff888034069100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888034069180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/05 18:50 upstream 0d8395707651 2377cd3d .config console log report C ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb
2026/09/01 05:15 upstream bf1079577a11 316d9396 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb
2026/07/30 10:13 upstream 11028ab62899 2377cd3d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb
2026/08/12 20:46 upstream 3d6d817622b0 ee03bfea .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb
2026/09/04 06:57 linux-next 9d80aa4617b3 801f0966 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in gadgetfs_kill_sb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.