KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/10/12 17:44
Subsystems: nfc
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+93f169a8e7d66864f800@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10d, last: 14h28m
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73223d7e repro-c 💥 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame 2026/10/13 14:11 2026/10/13 14:11 2026/10/13 17:56 7321cd29
982bcefd assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame 2026/10/10 03:19 2026/10/10 03:19 2026/10/10 04:20 549ef7e3
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[PATCH net] nfc: pn533: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in pn533_recv_frame() 1 (1) 2026/10/14 08:32
[PATCH] nfc: pn533: fix slab-out-of-bounds read in pn533_recv_frame() 1 (1) 2026/10/14 05:40
[syzbot] [nfc?] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame 0 (1) 2026/10/12 17:44
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame 17 syz, C 8 2d08h 5d12h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/10/13 09:17

Sample crash report:
PN533 RX: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
PN533 RX: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
PN533 RX: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hex_dump_to_buffer+0xbc4/0xc60 lib/hexdump.c:194
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88807c4dfa00 by task kworker/1:5/5712

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5712 Comm: kworker/1:5 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 __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
 hex_dump_to_buffer+0xbc4/0xc60 lib/hexdump.c:194
 print_hex_dump+0x14a/0x1f0 lib/hexdump.c:277
 pn533_recv_frame+0x48e/0x6d0 drivers/nfc/pn533/pn533.c:2202
 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x38e/0x610 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1657
 usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x3ca/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1741
 dummy_timer+0xdaf/0x3820 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2023
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2074 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x462/0x9c0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2131
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x1ca/0x360 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2148
 handle_softirqs+0x1e6/0x9d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:519 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x16a/0x210 kernel/softirq.c:758
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:775
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674
RIP: 0010:vprintk_store+0x228/0xbe0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2288
Code: ed 0f 85 cf 07 00 00 e8 c6 59 22 00 9c 5b 81 e3 00 02 00 00 31 ff 48 89 de e8 54 54 22 00 48 85 db 0f 85 fb 08 00 00 45 31 ed <e8> a3 59 22 00 48 8b 4c 24 10 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 01
RSP: 0000:ffffc90004a06e90 EFLAGS: 00000283
RAX: 000000000000e4ef RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffc9001af4e000
RDX: 0000000000100000 RSI: ffffffff81ea0635 RDI: ffff8880257b2580
RBP: 0000000000000200 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000002875480 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 000000000000001f R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8fd0ec80
 vprintk_emit+0x139/0x6b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2455
 _printk+0xcf/0x110 kernel/printk/printk.c:2504
 __dynamic_pr_debug+0x201/0x270 lib/dynamic_debug.c:879
 __kernfs_remove+0x80f/0xb80 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1555
 kernfs_remove fs/kernfs/dir.c:1624 [inline]
 kernfs_remove+0x4b/0x70 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1613
 sysfs_remove_dir+0xc8/0x110 fs/sysfs/dir.c:101
 __kobject_del+0xe2/0x220 lib/kobject.c:604
 kobject_del lib/kobject.c:627 [inline]
 kobject_del+0x3f/0x60 lib/kobject.c:619
 device_del+0x630/0x9b0 drivers/base/core.c:3985
 device_unregister+0x1d/0xe0 drivers/base/core.c:4006
 device_destroy+0x99/0xe0 drivers/base/core.c:4560
 dvb_remove_device.part.0+0xe7/0x270 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:606
 dvb_remove_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:596
 dvb_unregister_frontend+0x7a/0x150 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:3103
 as102_dvb_unregister+0x38/0xd0 drivers/media/usb/as102/as102_drv.c:373
 as102_usb_disconnect+0x5e/0x290 drivers/media/usb/as102/as102_usb_drv.c:316
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1dd/0x9e0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:461
 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:1484
 usb_disconnect+0x2e2/0x9a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2355
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5425 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5725 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5889 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1bb1/0x4420 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5971
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 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
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5712:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:351 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:377
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x282/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:5068
 kmalloc_reserve+0x148/0x350 net/core/skbuff.c:615
 __alloc_skb+0x185/0x710 net/core/skbuff.c:715
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
 pn533_recv_response+0x100/0x200 drivers/nfc/pn533/usb.c:65
 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x38e/0x610 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1657
 usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x3ca/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1741
 dummy_timer+0xdaf/0x3820 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2023
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2074 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x462/0x9c0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2131
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x1ca/0x360 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2148
 handle_softirqs+0x1e6/0x9d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:519 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x16a/0x210 kernel/softirq.c:758
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:775
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807c4df740
 which belongs to the cache skbuff_small_head of size 704
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
 allocated 704-byte region [ffff88807c4df740, ffff88807c4dfa00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7c4dc
head: order:2 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 ffff88814040b780 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000200130013 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88814040b780 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000200130013 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000002 ffffffffffffff01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000004
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4975, tgid 4975 (udevd), ts 22747541043
 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/0x35d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2eb/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3462 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa9/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:3513
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7418
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x4f2/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:5068
 kmalloc_reserve+0x148/0x350 net/core/skbuff.c:615
 __alloc_skb+0x185/0x710 net/core/skbuff.c:715
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb+0x69/0x150 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1204
 netlink_sendmsg+0x680/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1898
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:800 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa4d/0xbe0 net/socket.c:2713
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2767
 __sys_sendmsg+0x160/0x210 net/socket.c:2799
 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
page last free pid 4975 tgid 4975 ts 22732757795 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:361
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x282/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:5068
 __alloc_skb+0x140/0x710 net/core/skbuff.c:704
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
 netlink_alloc_large_skb+0x69/0x150 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1204
 netlink_sendmsg+0x680/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1898
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:800 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0xa4d/0xbe0 net/socket.c:2713
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2767
 __sys_sendmsg+0x160/0x210 net/socket.c:2799
 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807c4df900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 ffff88807c4df980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff88807c4dfa00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                   ^
 ffff88807c4dfa80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807c4dfb00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	ed                   	in     (%dx),%eax
   1:	0f 85 cf 07 00 00    	jne    0x7d6
   7:	e8 c6 59 22 00       	call   0x2259d2
   c:	9c                   	pushf
   d:	5b                   	pop    %rbx
   e:	81 e3 00 02 00 00    	and    $0x200,%ebx
  14:	31 ff                	xor    %edi,%edi
  16:	48 89 de             	mov    %rbx,%rsi
  19:	e8 54 54 22 00       	call   0x225472
  1e:	48 85 db             	test   %rbx,%rbx
  21:	0f 85 fb 08 00 00    	jne    0x922
  27:	45 31 ed             	xor    %r13d,%r13d
* 2a:	e8 a3 59 22 00       	call   0x2259d2 <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	48 8b 4c 24 10       	mov    0x10(%rsp),%rcx
  34:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  3b:	fc ff df
  3e:	48                   	rex.W
  3f:	01                   	.byte 0x1

Crashes (9):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/18 07:02 upstream 58161ead29e5 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
2026/10/18 07:02 upstream 58161ead29e5 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
2026/10/16 21:52 upstream 2f2f7eeef8b0 b1757810 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
2026/10/16 21:52 upstream 2f2f7eeef8b0 b1757810 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
2026/10/14 14:39 upstream ca3e345926b0 7321cd29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
2026/10/10 15:05 upstream 3857c2fe5449 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
2026/10/12 23:41 linux-next 4eb2586bd40d 745a967f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
2026/10/11 00:29 linux-next becb95e45ef0 4f92358f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
2026/10/08 16:24 linux-next b01868671970 4f6a9fcf .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in pn533_recv_frame
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.