KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/06 00:00
Subsystems: usb input
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Reported-by: syzbot+683f6c071b5abfc266c1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 4d13h, last: 22h55m
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
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[PATCH] Input: sur40 - fix use-after-free in sur40_open() 1 (1) 2026/08/06 08:00
[syzbot] [usb?] [input?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open 0 (2) 2026/08/06 04:28
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linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in sur40_open 19 syz, C 2 4h38m 4d05h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/05 01:51
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Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/08/06 04:28 1h08m kartikey406@gmail.com patch upstream OK log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sur40_init drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c:352 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sur40_open+0x46c/0x500 drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c:397
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807a69a000 by task udevd/5642

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5642 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __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
 sur40_init drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c:352 [inline]
 sur40_open+0x46c/0x500 drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c:397
 input_open_device+0x24c/0x3d0 drivers/input/input.c:601
 evdev_open_device drivers/input/evdev.c:391 [inline]
 evdev_open+0x52f/0x690 drivers/input/evdev.c:478
 chrdev_open+0x234/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x6ab/0x14d0 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1052
 do_open fs/namei.c:4700 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2873/0x4280 fs/namei.c:4863
 do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:4892
 do_sys_openat2+0x10f/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1368
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1374 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1390 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1385 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x12d/0x210 fs/open.c:1385
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x115/0x870 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f06732a7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007fffba81d070 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0673a07880 RCX: 00007f06732a7407
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: 0000560bc61336f0 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000560bc6115500 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000560b97aa50c8
R13: 0000560b97aa50ce R14: 00007fffba81d670 R15: 0000560b97aabbcc
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5634:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2e5/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:5489
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
 sur40_probe+0x1a8/0x1580 drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c:675
 usb_probe_interface+0x303/0x8f0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_set_configuration+0xd97/0x1c60 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0xa1/0xe0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0xef/0x400 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_new_device.cold+0x685/0x115c drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x30a3/0x4a60 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3322
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3405 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 5634:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2677 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6377 [inline]
 kfree+0x22b/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6692
 sur40_probe+0xc36/0x1580 drivers/input/touchscreen/sur40.c:816
 usb_probe_interface+0x303/0x8f0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_set_configuration+0xd97/0x1c60 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0xa1/0xe0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0xef/0x400 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x20e/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3772
 usb_new_device.cold+0x685/0x115c drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x30a3/0x4a60 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work+0xa23/0x1940 kernel/workqueue.c:3322
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3405 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807a69a000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 0 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff88807a69a000, ffff88807a69b000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7a698
head: order:3 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 ffff88813fe28140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe28140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4985, tgid 4985 (udevd), ts 22813655696, free_ts 18627306281
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xf48/0x3530 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x299/0x2dc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3380 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa2/0x640 mm/slub.c:3426
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7310
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x376/0x680 mm/slub.c:4675
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5333 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x66d/0x820 mm/slub.c:5359
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:992 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xb6/0x690 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x2af/0x3c0 security/tomoyo/file.c:776
 tomoyo_file_open+0x6b/0x90 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:334
 security_file_open+0xb5/0x1e0 security/security.c:2739
 do_dentry_open+0x588/0x14d0 fs/open.c:924
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1052
 do_open fs/namei.c:4700 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2873/0x4280 fs/namei.c:4863
 do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:4892
 do_sys_openat2+0x10f/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1368
page last free pid 1 tgid 1 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare+0x586/0xd80 mm/page_alloc.c:1451
 __free_contig_range_common+0x14f/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:6897
 debug_vm_pgtable_free_huge_page mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:980 [inline]
 destroy_args+0xa8/0x7a0 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:993
 debug_vm_pgtable+0x1d69/0x3490 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:1368
 do_one_initcall+0x11d/0x700 init/main.c:1347
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1409 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1425 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1445 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x6ea/0x7b0 init/main.c:1658
 kernel_init+0x1f/0x1e0 init/main.c:1548
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807a699f00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807a699f80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88807a69a000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff88807a69a080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807a69a100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (14):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/05 09:52 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/04 23:56 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/04 23:10 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/08 08:36 upstream 9a143525f62b e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/07 14:14 upstream f9a2394a2348 e4ef95d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/07 00:01 upstream 0d8395707651 c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/05 18:21 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/05 18:19 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/05 18:19 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/05 08:16 upstream c21bb4193868 b3eac40e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/05 02:38 upstream c21bb4193868 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/05 02:37 upstream c21bb4193868 d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/04 17:55 upstream 848acc8ffe1b d4abbeac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
2026/08/07 01:09 linux-next cc2b5f627e8c c38879ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in sur40_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.