[moderation] [i2c?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in i2c_adapter_lock_bus

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HEAD commit: fc02acf6ac0c Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v7.2-4' of gi..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1736248e580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=cb17729fb04b1e3a
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2ea7036429568c7e440f
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
CC: [andi....@kernel.org linu...@vger.kernel.org linux-...@vger.kernel.org]

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in i2c_adapter_depth drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1243 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in i2c_adapter_lock_bus+0x5e/0xf0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:849
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880270b4108 by task syz.4.7872/28255

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 28255 Comm: syz.4.7872 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
i2c_adapter_depth drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1243 [inline]
i2c_adapter_lock_bus+0x5e/0xf0 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:849
i2c_lock_bus include/linux/i2c.h:809 [inline]
__i2c_lock_bus_helper drivers/i2c/i2c-core.h:47 [inline]
i2c_smbus_xfer+0xd5/0x310 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-smbus.c:543
i2cdev_ioctl_smbus+0x407/0x700 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:389
i2cdev_ioctl+0x618/0x890 drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c:478
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xff/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0b2cb8de99
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:00007f0b2ade6028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0b2ce15fa0 RCX: 00007f0b2cb8de99
RDX: 0000200000000080 RSI: 0000000000000720 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f0b2cc23eaf R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f0b2ce16038 R14: 00007f0b2ce15fa0 R15: 00007ffe659b19a8
</TASK>

Allocated by task 1326:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5334 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x57f/0x7c0 mm/slub.c:5471
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:637 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x2bd/0x7a0 net/core/skbuff.c:715
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1384 [inline]
nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:819 [inline]
nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:876 [inline]
nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x2b1/0xcb0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:922
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 1326:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/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+0x1c5/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6692
skb_kfree_head net/core/skbuff.c:1077 [inline]
skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1089 [inline]
skb_release_data+0x85e/0xab0 net/core/skbuff.c:1116
skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1191 [inline]
__kfree_skb+0x5d/0x210 net/core/skbuff.c:1205
nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:892 [inline]
nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x879/0xcb0 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:922
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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 ffff8880270b4000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 264 bytes inside of
freed 4096-byte region [ffff8880270b4000, ffff8880270b5000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x270b0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ffb2140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ffb2140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 13082770889, free_ts 13069657874
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1859
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1867 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x262a/0x26a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5304
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3266 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x79/0x5e0 mm/slub.c:3380
new_slab mm/slub.c:3426 [inline]
refill_objects+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7310
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x330/0x690 mm/slub.c:4675
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x468/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5485
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
kobject_uevent_env+0x28c/0x9e0 lib/kobject_uevent.c:543
device_add+0x544/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3738
device_create_groups_vargs drivers/base/core.c:4454 [inline]
device_create+0x269/0x300 drivers/base/core.c:4493
mon_bin_add+0xb6/0x130 drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c:1371
mon_bus_init+0x173/0x2b0 drivers/usb/mon/mon_main.c:291
mon_bus_add drivers/usb/mon/mon_main.c:188 [inline]
mon_notify+0x10c/0x3f0 drivers/usb/mon/mon_main.c:219
notifier_call_chain+0x1a5/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x6a/0x90 kernel/notifier.c:380
usb_register_bus+0xcf/0x150 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:904
page last free pid 10 tgid 10 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
free_pages_prepare+0x946/0xa40 mm/page_alloc.c:1451
__free_contig_range_common+0x174/0x340 mm/page_alloc.c:6897
__free_contig_range mm/page_alloc.c:6942 [inline]
free_pages_bulk+0x48/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:5257
vm_area_free_pages mm/vmalloc.c:3439 [inline]
vfree+0x26f/0x510 mm/vmalloc.c:3488
delayed_vfree_work+0x55/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3392
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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:
ffff8880270b4000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880270b4080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880270b4100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8880270b4180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880270b4200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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