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HEAD commit: aa0e49877a2e Linux 6.6.148
git tree: linux-6.6.y
console output:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=13a54bb9580000
kernel config:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=f0bc3d90c30838b5
dashboard link:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5916dc0ad70b3adbefcd
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:645 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in string+0x204/0x290 lib/vsprintf.c:727
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88807cbee760 by task udevd/5142
CPU: 1 PID: 5142 Comm: udevd Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:645 [inline]
string+0x204/0x290 lib/vsprintf.c:727
vsnprintf+0xf72/0x1ba0 lib/vsprintf.c:2823
add_uevent_var+0x1d1/0x460 lib/kobject_uevent.c:680
rc_dev_uevent+0x15f/0x190 drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c:1632
dev_uevent+0x53a/0x7c0 drivers/base/core.c:2659
uevent_show+0x196/0x300 drivers/base/core.c:2706
dev_attr_show+0x54/0xc0 drivers/base/core.c:2379
sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x34d/0x4c0 fs/sysfs/file.c:59
seq_read_iter+0x464/0xc50 fs/seq_file.c:230
call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2012 [inline]
new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:389 [inline]
vfs_read+0x486/0x990 fs/read_write.c:470
ksys_read+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:613
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7fa6bc7ce407
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:00007ffe0214fe50 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa6bc742880 RCX: 00007fa6bc7ce407
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 0000561dda6b2800 RDI: 000000000000000c
RBP: 00007fa6bc916ff0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000000000000000a
R13: 00007fa6bc916ea0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000561dda6890d0
</TASK>
Allocated by task 5821:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
redrat3_dev_probe+0x3f9/0x23d0 drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:1025
usb_probe_interface+0x5c2/0xaf0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x247/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:717
__driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:879
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:909
__device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:1037
bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
__device_attach+0x2c1/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1109
bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:580
device_add+0x87c/0xc40 drivers/base/core.c:3700
usb_set_configuration+0x1ad0/0x2150 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2265
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
usb_probe_device+0x12a/0x260 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x247/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:717
__driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:879
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:909
__device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:1037
bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
__device_attach+0x2c1/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1109
bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:580
device_add+0x87c/0xc40 drivers/base/core.c:3700
usb_new_device+0x995/0x1550 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2660
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5529 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5669 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833 [inline]
hub_event+0x29d5/0x4a80 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5915
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
Freed by task 5821:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
kasan_save_free_info+0x28/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
__kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
redrat3_delete drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:466 [inline]
redrat3_dev_probe+0x1b73/0x23d0 drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:1126
usb_probe_interface+0x5c2/0xaf0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x247/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:717
__driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:879
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:909
__device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:1037
bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
__device_attach+0x2c1/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1109
bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:580
device_add+0x87c/0xc40 drivers/base/core.c:3700
usb_set_configuration+0x1ad0/0x2150 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2265
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
usb_probe_device+0x12a/0x260 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x247/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:717
__driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:879
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:909
__device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:1037
bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
__device_attach+0x2c1/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1109
bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:580
device_add+0x87c/0xc40 drivers/base/core.c:3700
usb_new_device+0x995/0x1550 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2660
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5529 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5669 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833 [inline]
hub_event+0x29d5/0x4a80 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5915
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807cbee000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1888 bytes inside of
freed 2048-byte region [ffff88807cbee000, ffff88807cbee800)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001f2fa00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7cbe8
head:ffffea0001f2fa00 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017c42000 ffffea00007ab200 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 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 6023, tgid 6023 (syz-executor), ts 142478984965, free_ts 141546442444
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1582
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1589 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x2181/0x22a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3221
__alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4501
alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x180 mm/slub.c:1881
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
___slab_alloc+0xc5c/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x11f/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x10d/0x2170 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3758
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x843/0xf90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6484
netlink_rcv_skb+0x235/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x7b1/0x930 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
netlink_sendmsg+0x8d0/0xbf0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1899
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x4a9/0x6b0 net/socket.c:2201
__do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2213 [inline]
__se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2209 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendto+0xde/0xf0 net/socket.c:2209
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1182 [inline]
free_unref_page_prepare+0x7d7/0x8f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2366
free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2459
discard_slab mm/slub.c:2127 [inline]
__unfreeze_partials+0x1cf/0x210 mm/slub.c:2667
put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2743
__slab_free+0x319/0x400 mm/slub.c:3700
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6a/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:770
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x194/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
kobject_uevent_env+0x27c/0x890 lib/kobject_uevent.c:539
device_del+0x769/0x910 drivers/base/core.c:3907
wiphy_unregister+0x3f0/0xa80 net/wireless/core.c:1120
ieee80211_unregister_hw+0x1c6/0x2a0 net/mac80211/main.c:1539
mac80211_hwsim_del_radio+0x289/0x480 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:5412
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88807cbee600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88807cbee680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807cbee700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88807cbee780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88807cbee800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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