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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/26 01:43
Subsystems: media
Labels: prio:high actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+4a6e6173b1fc7916e950@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d06h, last: 4d14h
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6b1ac6a5 moderation Actionable: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __video_do_ioctl (2) 2026/08/26 01:11 2026/08/26 01:11 2026/08/26 01:42 ee98d2fd
49ca67d8 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __video_do_ioctl (2) 2026/08/23 02:03 2026/08/23 02:03 2026/08/23 02:06 1e72964b
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[PATCH] input: sur40: fix use-after-free in disconnect 2 (2) 2026/08/26 05:47
[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __video_do_ioctl (2) 0 (1) 2026/08/26 01:43
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __video_do_ioctl media 19 3 226d 376d 29/29 fixed on 2026/05/21 07:50

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in video_is_registered include/media/v4l2-dev.h:546 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __video_do_ioctl+0x543/0xdf0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3109
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807dcd66d0 by task v4l_id/15887

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 15887 Comm: v4l_id Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
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
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:186 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:82 [inline]
 _test_bit include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:141 [inline]
 video_is_registered include/media/v4l2-dev.h:546 [inline]
 __video_do_ioctl+0x543/0xdf0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3109
 video_usercopy+0x47a/0x1730 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c:3477
 v4l2_ioctl+0x1bd/0x250 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:366
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7fd49ef1d378
Code: 00 00 48 8d 44 24 08 48 89 54 24 e0 48 89 44 24 c0 48 8d 44 24 d0 48 89 44 24 c8 b8 10 00 00 00 c7 44 24 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <89> c2 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 07 89 d0 c3 0f 1f 40 00 48 8b 15 49 3a 0d
RSP: 002b:00007ffd4428e478 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fd49ef1d378
RDX: 00007ffd4428e480 RSI: 0000000080685600 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffd4428e630 R14: 00007fd49f795000 R15: 00005631adc3f4d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5833:
 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:5484
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 sur40_probe+0x1a8/0x1580 drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c:675
 usb_probe_interface+0x303/0x8f0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 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
 usb_set_configuration+0xd97/0x1c60 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0xa1/0xe0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0xef/0x400 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 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
 usb_new_device.part.0+0xcc2/0x1686 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2703
 usb_new_device include/linux/workqueue.h:714 [inline]
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5575 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5715 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5879 [inline]
 hub_event.cold+0x1e3/0xe90 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5961
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3387
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3470 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
 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

Freed by task 5833:
 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:2678 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6372 [inline]
 kfree+0x22b/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6687
 sur40_disconnect+0xb8/0x170 drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c:835
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1dd/0x9e0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:618 [inline]
 device_remove+0x12a/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:610
 __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
 usb_disable_device+0x367/0x810 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1478
 usb_disconnect+0x2e2/0x9a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2345
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5415 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5715 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5879 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1bb1/0x4420 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5961
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3387
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3470 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807dcd6000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 1744 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff88807dcd6000, ffff88807dcd7000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7dcd0
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 ffff88801c027140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c027140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 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 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4942, tgid 4942 (init), ts 23438014265
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x110d/0x35b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2eb/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3267 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3382 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa5/0x640 mm/slub.c:3428
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7305
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2805 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x372/0x680 mm/slub.c:4677
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4775 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4907 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5336 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x66b/0x820 mm/slub.c:5362
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:992 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xb6/0x690 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_realpath_nofollow+0xe0/0x100 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:304
 tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x2a8/0x2010 security/tomoyo/domain.c:731
 tomoyo_bprm_check_security security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:102 [inline]
 tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x12d/0x1d0 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:92
 security_bprm_check+0x87/0x1e0 security/security.c:820
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1746 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1788 [inline]
 bprm_execve fs/exec.c:1844 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0x80b/0x1940 fs/exec.c:1820
 do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x4a5/0x580 fs/exec.c:1942
 __do_sys_execve fs/exec.c:2015 [inline]
 __se_sys_execve fs/exec.c:2009 [inline]
 __x64_sys_execve+0x93/0xd0 fs/exec.c:2009
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
page last free pid 1 tgid 1 ts 21508150262 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare+0x586/0xe00 mm/page_alloc.c:1463
 __free_contig_range_common+0x14f/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:7060
 debug_vm_pgtable_free_huge_page mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:980 [inline]
 destroy_args+0xa8/0x7a0 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:993
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x1d69/0x3490 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1368
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807dcd6580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807dcd6600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807dcd6680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff88807dcd6700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807dcd6780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/21 15:32 upstream 8dbbc7e18894 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __video_do_ioctl
2026/08/22 07:59 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 __video_do_ioctl
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.