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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/04 10:17
Reported-by: syzbot+5522c10517d2f842af95@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 52d, last: 32d
Similar bugs (10)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference in tty_write_room serial 19 syz error 6 1005d 1062d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/10/05 13:52
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (2) serial 19 syz error error 271 44d 802d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/01/16 15:06
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in tty_write_room serial 19 1 903d 899d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/09 18:18
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (2) origin:upstream missing-backport 19 syz error 4 84d 157d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2025/10/22 04:41
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (2) 19 1 557d 557d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/12/27 00:19
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (3) 19 1 412d 412d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/05/21 00:47
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room serial 19 12 1302d 1559d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/01/01 23:03
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room 19 4 349d 480d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/22 23:58
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room 19 1 891d 891d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/01/27 09:51
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in tty_write_room (4) 19 2 202d 267d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/16 21:38

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in tty_write_room+0x35/0x80 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:72
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805c17b020 by task aoe_tx0/1289

CPU: 0 PID: 1289 Comm: aoe_tx0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 tty_write_room+0x35/0x80 drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c:72
 handle_tx+0x15e/0x610 drivers/net/caif/caif_serial.c:226
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4943 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4957 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3632 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x246/0x740 net/core/dev.c:3648
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1ac2/0x36b0 net/core/dev.c:4438
 dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3113 [inline]
 tx+0x6b/0x180 drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:63
 kthread+0x1d2/0x3b0 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1241
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6113:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 alloc_tty_struct+0xa7/0x790 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3092
 tty_init_dev+0x59/0x4c0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1407
 tty_open_by_driver drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2080 [inline]
 tty_open+0x866/0xd80 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2127
 chrdev_open+0x5cc/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x8c6/0x1500 fs/open.c:929
 do_open fs/namei.c:3640 [inline]
 path_openat+0x27f1/0x3230 fs/namei.c:3797
 do_filp_open+0x1f5/0x430 fs/namei.c:3824
 do_sys_openat2+0x134/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1421
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x139/0x160 fs/open.c:1447
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Freed by task 787:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:3843
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x3e/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 __kasan_record_aux_stack+0xaf/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:492
 insert_work+0x3d/0x310 kernel/workqueue.c:1651
 __queue_work+0xc39/0x1020 kernel/workqueue.c:1800
 queue_work_on+0x128/0x1f0 kernel/workqueue.c:1835
 tty_release_struct+0xb8/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1699
 tty_release+0xc79/0x1600 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1859
 __fput+0x234/0x970 fs/file_table.c:384
 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:245
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
 do_exit+0x95a/0x2460 kernel/exit.c:883
 do_group_exit+0x21b/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1024
 get_signal+0x12fc/0x13f0 kernel/signal.c:2902
 arch_do_signal_or_restart+0xc2/0x800 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:310
 exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x70/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:174
 exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xee/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:210
 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:291 [inline]
 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x50 kernel/entry/common.c:302
 do_syscall_64+0x61/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805c17b000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-cg-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of
 freed 2048-byte region [ffff88805c17b000, ffff88805c17b800)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001705e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5c178
head:ffffea0001705e00 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
memcg:ffff88802ac5c281
anon flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017c4f3c0 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000001ffffffff ffff88802ac5c281
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 5858, tgid 5856 (syz.3.13), ts 79558721552, free_ts 22279073346
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1581
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1588 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1951/0x19e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3220
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4486
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5d/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x19e/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 alloc_tty_struct+0xa7/0x790 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:3092
 pty_common_install+0x17b/0x750 drivers/tty/pty.c:379
 tty_driver_install_tty drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1302 [inline]
 tty_init_dev+0xd3/0x4c0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1414
 ptmx_open+0xdf/0x2c0 drivers/tty/pty.c:824
 chrdev_open+0x5cc/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x8c6/0x1500 fs/open.c:929
 do_open fs/namei.c:3640 [inline]
 path_openat+0x27f1/0x3230 fs/namei.c:3797
 do_filp_open+0x1f5/0x430 fs/namei.c:3824
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1181 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7b2/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2365
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2458
 free_contig_range+0xa1/0x150 mm/page_alloc.c:6406
 destroy_args+0x80/0x850 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1015
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x411/0x440 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1400
 do_one_initcall+0x242/0x790 init/main.c:1250
 do_initcall_level+0x137/0x1f0 init/main.c:1312
 do_initcalls+0x69/0xd0 init/main.c:1328
 kernel_init_freeable+0x3ed/0x580 init/main.c:1565
 kernel_init+0x1d/0x1c0 init/main.c:1455
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805c17af00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805c17af80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88805c17b000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                               ^
 ffff88805c17b080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805c17b100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/24 20:18 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 96b1aa46 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in tty_write_room
2026/02/04 10:16 linux-6.6.y 2cf6f68313dc 42b01fab .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in tty_write_room
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.