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

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/26 21:27
Reported-by: syzbot+b908120b9c31b888028e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 53d, last: 1d16h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fbcon_prepare_logo 17 syz, C 7 11d 79d 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/31 21:36
upstream KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fbcon_prepare_logo prio:high fbdev 19 syz, C 1873 37d 600d 27/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/02/25 07:06
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fbcon_prepare_logo 19 11 3d18h 79d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/07/31 22:44

Sample crash report:
Console: switching to colour VGA+ 80x25
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in scr_memcpyw include/linux/vt_buffer.h:49 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fbcon_prepare_logo+0x48a/0xb50 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:600
Read of size 218 at addr ffff88807ce9d4aa by task syz.5.455/5909

CPU: 1 PID: 5909 Comm: syz.5.455 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/07/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x235/0x290 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
 memcpy+0x25/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:65
 scr_memcpyw include/linux/vt_buffer.h:49 [inline]
 fbcon_prepare_logo+0x48a/0xb50 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:600
 fbcon_init+0x137c/0x2460 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:1135
 visual_init+0x2dd/0x650 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1074
 do_bind_con_driver+0x859/0x1030 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3704
 vt_bind drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3860 [inline]
 store_bind+0x794/0xa20 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3932
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a0/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2271 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x482/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x14d/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f8be979e559
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:00007f8bea5d7028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f8be9a25fa0 RCX: 00007f8be979e559
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000200000000e80 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f8be9835ab8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f8be9a26038 R14: 00007f8be9a25fa0 R15: 00007fff538376d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5909:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:211 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:936 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xb3/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:949
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 vc_do_resize+0x36e/0x17b0 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1244
 fbcon_init+0x1395/0x2460 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c:1132
 visual_init+0x2dd/0x650 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:1074
 do_bind_con_driver+0x859/0x1030 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3704
 vt_bind drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3860 [inline]
 store_bind+0x794/0xa20 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c:3932
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a0/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2271 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x482/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x14d/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807ce9c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 1194 bytes to the right of
 4096-byte region [ffff88807ce9c000, ffff88807ce9d000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001f3a600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7ce98
head:ffffea0001f3a600 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888018442140
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080040004 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 5597, tgid 5595 (syz.2.367), ts 121887144154, free_ts 121872236230
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2560
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2567 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x206b/0x2180 mm/page_alloc.c:4358
 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5658
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x180 mm/slub.c:1799
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1944 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:1997
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc5/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x126/0x270 mm/slub.c:3398
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa3/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:949
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe2/0x5c0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x212/0x440 security/tomoyo/file.c:771
 security_file_open+0x5e/0xa0 security/security.c:1685
 do_dentry_open+0x2fd/0x10b0 fs/open.c:869
 do_open fs/namei.c:3677 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2674/0x2f10 fs/namei.c:3834
 do_filp_open+0x1ee/0x420 fs/namei.c:3861
 do_sys_openat2+0x14b/0x4f0 fs/open.c:1320
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1336 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1352 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1347 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1347
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1487 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1537 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8e5/0x9e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3414
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3509
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2036 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2042 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x188/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:2591
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2667
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:168 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x76/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:187
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x144/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:294
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x1e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4b/0x490 mm/slab.h:737
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3359 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x19d/0x270 mm/slub.c:3398
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa3/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:949
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xe2/0x5c0 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_number_perm+0x22f/0x650 security/tomoyo/file.c:723
 security_file_ioctl+0x6c/0xa0 security/security.c:1572
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:864 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x48/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:856
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807ce9d380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807ce9d400: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88807ce9d480: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                  ^
 ffff88807ce9d500: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807ce9d580: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/17 06:43 linux-6.1.y 79807e970724 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fbcon_prepare_logo
2026/10/17 06:43 linux-6.1.y 79807e970724 432c0077 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fbcon_prepare_logo
2026/08/27 04:19 linux-6.1.y 05208478041c a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fbcon_prepare_logo
2026/08/26 21:26 linux-6.1.y 05208478041c a2b77b9e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in fbcon_prepare_logo
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.