KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/11/07 21:09
Reported-by: syzbot+81d44b04e906e4c95ffe@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 1d06h, last: 1d06h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write (2) serial 21 6 424d 428d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/19 08:09
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write (3) prio:high serial 21 15 97d 255d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2026/02/26 08:31
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write serial 21 4 561d 639d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/04 16:13

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in vc_con_write_normal drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2865 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in do_con_write+0x18ba/0x6c70 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2958
Write of size 2 at addr ffff888075c7ded0 by task syz.7.3373/20314

CPU: 0 PID: 20314 Comm: syz.7.3373 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/15/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 vc_con_write_normal drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2865 [inline]
 do_con_write+0x18ba/0x6c70 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:2958
 con_write+0x1f/0x40 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3298
 process_output_block drivers/tty/n_tty.c:592 [inline]
 n_tty_write+0xd19/0x1220 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2339
 do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1029 [inline]
 file_tty_write+0x50c/0x8a0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1100
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2179 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x748/0xd70 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f7fae6a6b19
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f7fac8fd028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7fae92cfa0 RCX: 00007f7fae6a6b19
RDX: 0000000000001006 RSI: 0000200000000700 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f7fae73eb70 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f7fae92d038 R14: 00007f7fae92cfa0 R15: 00007ffc45a06448
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6931:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaf/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:356 [inline]
 __alloc_skb+0x22c/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:427
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1162 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:664 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:721 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x25c/0xab0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:762
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Freed by task 6931:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
 skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:655 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x667/0x830 net/core/skbuff.c:677
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:742 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:756 [inline]
 consume_skb+0xa2/0x100 net/core/skbuff.c:918
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:737 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x771/0xab0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:762
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888075c7c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 3792 bytes to the right of
 4096-byte region [ffff888075c7c000, ffff888075c7d000)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001d71e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x75c78
head:ffffea0001d71e00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888017842140
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 6449, ts 247790581197, free_ts 247706726483
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
 ___slab_alloc+0x807/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x11d/0x340 mm/slub.c:4408
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:612 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xed/0x5e0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:254
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x23f/0x5d0 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 security_inode_getattr+0xcf/0x120 security/security.c:1398
 vfs_getattr+0x26/0x3a0 fs/stat.c:157
 vfs_fstat fs/stat.c:182 [inline]
 __do_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:421 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:418 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstat+0x137/0x210 fs/stat.c:418
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 qlist_free_all+0x35/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x150/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xc0 mm/kasan/common.c:444
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x184/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:3261
 __alloc_skb+0xf4/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:415
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1162 [inline]
 alloc_skb_with_frags+0xa7/0x720 net/core/skbuff.c:6209
 sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x87f/0x9a0 net/core/sock.c:2535
 unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x6f8/0x19c0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1809
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:706 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:718 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x46d/0x620 net/socket.c:2073
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2085 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2081 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xda/0xf0 net/socket.c:2081
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888075c7dd80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888075c7de00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888075c7de80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                                 ^
 ffff888075c7df00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888075c7df80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/11/07 21:08 linux-5.15.y 29c6cdaac04a 5cecaf1f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Write in do_con_write
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.