KASAN: use-after-free Read in android_work

Status: premoderation: reported on 2026/08/17 09:46
Reported-by: syzbot+fe4edfb496b996b0116b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 10d, last: 10d
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
android-6-1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in android_work 19 1 28d 28d 0/2 premoderation: reported on 2026/07/30 10:01
android-6-12 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in android_work 19 1 27d 27d 0/1 premoderation: reported on 2026/07/31 00:15

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in kobject_uevent_env+0xc2/0x700 lib/kobject_uevent.c:497
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88815b724020 by task kworker/1:1/39

CPU: 1 PID: 39 Comm: kworker/1:1 Tainted: G        W         syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: events android_work
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack+0x21/0x30 lib/dump_stack.c:88
 dump_stack_lvl+0x110/0x170 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x7f/0x2c0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:427 [inline]
 kasan_report+0x10f/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:444
 __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report_generic.c:309
 kobject_uevent_env+0xc2/0x700 lib/kobject_uevent.c:497
 android_work+0x2fa/0x4c0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1507
 process_one_work+0x6c8/0xbb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2328
 worker_thread+0xaa0/0x1250 kernel/workqueue.c:2475
 kthread+0x3f5/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:337
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 421:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:433 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:512 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0x100 mm/kasan/common.c:521
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:227 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x119/0x270 mm/slub.c:3274
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:619 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:750 [inline]
 device_create_groups_vargs drivers/base/core.c:4100 [inline]
 device_create+0x13a/0x300 drivers/base/core.c:4160
 android_device_create drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1788 [inline]
 gadgets_make+0x816/0xa70 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1885
 configfs_mkdir+0x50a/0x9c0 fs/configfs/dir.c:1329
 vfs_mkdir+0x38b/0x590 fs/namei.c:4073
 do_mkdirat+0x174/0x4d0 fs/namei.c:4098
 __do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4113 [inline]
 __se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4111 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mkdirat+0x89/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4111
 x64_sys_call+0x37e/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:259
 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

Freed by task 444:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4a/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_free_info+0x23/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:370
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x125/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:365
 __kasan_slab_free+0x11/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:373
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:193 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1728 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc2/0x190 mm/slub.c:1754
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3526 [inline]
 kfree+0xc4/0x270 mm/slub.c:4588
 device_create_release+0x15/0x20 drivers/base/core.c:4085
 device_release+0x96/0x1c0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:713 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:744 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x18a/0x270 lib/kobject.c:761
 put_device drivers/base/core.c:3530 [inline]
 device_unregister drivers/base/core.c:3656 [inline]
 device_destroy+0xb4/0xf0 drivers/base/core.c:4226
 android_device_destroy drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1820 [inline]
 gadgets_drop+0xa0/0xd0 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1901
 client_drop_item fs/configfs/dir.c:933 [inline]
 configfs_rmdir+0x871/0x960 fs/configfs/dir.c:1536
 vfs_rmdir+0x1ae/0x450 fs/namei.c:4157
 do_rmdir+0x261/0x6b0 fs/namei.c:4218
 __do_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:4237 [inline]
 __se_sys_rmdir fs/namei.c:4235 [inline]
 __x64_sys_rmdir+0x49/0x50 fs/namei.c:4235
 x64_sys_call+0x25f/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:85
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88815b724000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 32 bytes inside of
 1024-byte region [ffff88815b724000, ffff88815b724400)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00056dc800 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x15b720
head:ffffea00056dc800 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x4000000000010200(slab|head|zone=1)
raw: 4000000000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff888100043080
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 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 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 90, ts 73297160949, free_ts 72288346187
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x192/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:2607
 prep_new_page+0x1c/0x110 mm/page_alloc.c:2613
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2c3a/0x2cd0 mm/page_alloc.c:4487
 __alloc_pages+0x1a2/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:5824
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:-1 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1937 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa0/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:2000
 ___slab_alloc+0x3ac/0x840 mm/slub.c:3033
 __slab_alloc+0x49/0x90 mm/slub.c:3120
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3211 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3255 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x146/0x270 mm/slub.c:3272
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:619 [inline]
 syslog_print+0x12e/0x8d0 kernel/printk/printk.c:1512
 do_syslog+0x71a/0x7e0 kernel/printk/printk.c:1691
 __do_sys_syslog kernel/printk/printk.c:1783 [inline]
 __se_sys_syslog kernel/printk/printk.c:1781 [inline]
 __x64_sys_syslog+0x7c/0x90 kernel/printk/printk.c:1781
 x64_sys_call+0x728/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:104
 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:26 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1474 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1546 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x5fa/0x600 mm/page_alloc.c:3536
 free_unref_page+0xae/0x540 mm/page_alloc.c:3618
 free_the_page mm/page_alloc.c:805 [inline]
 __free_pages+0x6c/0x100 mm/page_alloc.c:5900
 swsusp_free+0xb3/0x2f0 kernel/power/snapshot.c:1530
 hibernate+0x241/0x2c0 kernel/power/hibernate.c:766
 state_store+0x23d/0x2a0 kernel/power/main.c:663
 kobj_attr_store+0x5e/0x80 lib/kobject.c:864
 sysfs_kf_write+0x129/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:139
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2bd/0x400 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2212 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x831/0xfd0 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x14a/0x260 fs/read_write.c:647
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:659 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:656 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0x90 fs/read_write.c:656
 x64_sys_call+0x8ef/0x9a0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:2
 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:
 ffff88815b723f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88815b723f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88815b724000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                               ^
 ffff88815b724080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88815b724100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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android_work: sent uevent USB_STATE=CONFIGURED

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/17 09:45 android13-5.15-lts 54275df9611d 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-android-5-15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in android_work
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.