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HEAD commit: 6e2fd6534337 Linux 5.15.213
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https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=176b13b9580000
kernel config:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=f161cbc9aef65db0
dashboard link:
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=23b1d1906b47c04d9a6d
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:642 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in string+0x204/0x290 lib/vsprintf.c:724
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880744ff728 by task udevd/3557
CPU: 0 PID: 3557 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+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
string_nocheck lib/vsprintf.c:642 [inline]
string+0x204/0x290 lib/vsprintf.c:724
vsnprintf+0x10db/0x1c20 lib/vsprintf.c:2811
add_uevent_var+0x1cd/0x460 lib/kobject_uevent.c:680
rc_dev_uevent+0x15b/0x190 drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c:1630
dev_uevent+0x4d6/0x740 drivers/base/core.c:2361
uevent_show+0x1b1/0x320 drivers/base/core.c:2410
dev_attr_show+0x50/0xb0 drivers/base/core.c:2110
sysfs_kf_seq_show+0x316/0x4c0 fs/sysfs/file.c:61
seq_read_iter+0x460/0xc50 fs/seq_file.c:230
call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2167 [inline]
new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:404 [inline]
vfs_read+0x75e/0xd50 fs/read_write.c:485
ksys_read+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:623
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
RIP: 0033:0x7f95a80c6407
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:00007ffe6130ce00 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f95a7fd8880 RCX: 00007f95a80c6407
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 000056408e6bca00 RDI: 000000000000000c
RBP: 00007f95a820eff0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000000000000000a
R13: 00007f95a820eea0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000056408e69e070
</TASK>
Allocated by task 4186:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaf/0xe0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
redrat3_dev_probe+0x3ef/0x23c0 drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:1025
usb_probe_interface+0x5be/0xae0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x276/0xc70 drivers/base/dd.c:595
__driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:775
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:805
__device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:927
bus_for_each_drv+0x184/0x210 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x2a7/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:999
bus_probe_device+0xba/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xbcf/0x1050 drivers/base/core.c:3427
usb_set_configuration+0x19d5/0x2030 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2223
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x89/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
usb_probe_device+0x126/0x250 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x276/0xc70 drivers/base/dd.c:595
__driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:775
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:805
__device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:927
bus_for_each_drv+0x184/0x210 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x2a7/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:999
bus_probe_device+0xba/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xbcf/0x1050 drivers/base/core.c:3427
usb_new_device+0x9f6/0x15d0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2632
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5497 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5637 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5799 [inline]
hub_event+0x2b8d/0x5260 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5881
process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
Freed by task 4186:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0xec/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
redrat3_delete drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:466 [inline]
redrat3_dev_probe+0x1b69/0x23c0 drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c:1126
usb_probe_interface+0x5be/0xae0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x276/0xc70 drivers/base/dd.c:595
__driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:775
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:805
__device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:927
bus_for_each_drv+0x184/0x210 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x2a7/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:999
bus_probe_device+0xba/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xbcf/0x1050 drivers/base/core.c:3427
usb_set_configuration+0x19d5/0x2030 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2223
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x89/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
usb_probe_device+0x126/0x250 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x276/0xc70 drivers/base/dd.c:595
__driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:775
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:805
__device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:927
bus_for_each_drv+0x184/0x210 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x2a7/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:999
bus_probe_device+0xba/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xbcf/0x1050 drivers/base/core.c:3427
usb_new_device+0x9f6/0x15d0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2632
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5497 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5637 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5799 [inline]
hub_event+0x2b8d/0x5260 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5881
process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
worker_thread+0xad7/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880744ff000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1832 bytes inside of
2048-byte region [ffff8880744ff000, ffff8880744ff800)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001d13e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x744f8
head:ffffea0001d13e00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ffff888016c42000
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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4185, ts 65797054102, free_ts 65143510125
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
__alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
___slab_alloc+0x807/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3233 [inline]
__kmalloc_track_caller+0x11b/0x330 mm/slub.c:4930
kmemdup+0x22/0x50 mm/util.c:128
neigh_sysctl_register+0xab/0xa90 net/core/neighbour.c:3652
devinet_sysctl_register+0xa8/0x1f0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2640
inetdev_init+0x28c/0x4d0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:277
inetdev_event+0x26f/0x1350 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1543
notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2074 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2088 [inline]
register_netdevice+0x12a8/0x1720 net/core/dev.c:10454
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3540 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x14fe/0x1920 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3586
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7f1/0xf10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:5698
netlink_rcv_skb+0x1e9/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2519
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1314 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x78f/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1340
page last free stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
free_unref_page+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
put_page include/linux/mm.h:1258 [inline]
__skb_frag_unref include/linux/skbuff.h:3254 [inline]
skb_release_data+0x35c/0x830 net/core/skbuff.c:672
skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:742 [inline]
__kfree_skb+0x4c/0x60 net/core/skbuff.c:756
sk_eat_skb include/net/sock.h:2793 [inline]
tcp_recvmsg_locked+0x143d/0x2690 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2520
tcp_recvmsg+0x22a/0x760 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2566
inet_recvmsg+0x146/0x200 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:868
sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:969 [inline]
sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:987 [inline]
sock_read_iter+0x2c2/0x380 net/socket.c:1068
call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:2167 [inline]
new_sync_read fs/read_write.c:404 [inline]
vfs_read+0x75e/0xd50 fs/read_write.c:485
ksys_read+0x153/0x260 fs/read_write.c:623
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:
ffff8880744ff600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880744ff680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880744ff700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8880744ff780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8880744ff800: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
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