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To: dwlsalmeida@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: [syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:20:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a8c451c.dbb3a75c.7844.0004.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: a4ff2be345d0 Merge tag 'v7.3-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/p..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=148d7a25580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=29686c02180e4e86
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c7fc4794e59786f5b4dc
compiler: gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44
Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.
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Reported-by: syzbot+c7fc4794e59786f5b4dc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vidtv_bridge_check_demod_lock drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:145 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail+0x126/0x140 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:162
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802dc67118 by task kworker/1:12/13368
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 13368 Comm: kworker/1:12 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/16/2026
Workqueue: events vidtv_mux_tick
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
vidtv_bridge_check_demod_lock drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:145 [inline]
vidtv_bridge_on_new_pkts_avail+0x126/0x140 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:162
vidtv_mux_tick+0xb95/0x1460 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:426
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+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1:
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+0x2e7/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5489
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
vidtv_demod_i2c_probe+0x6e/0x8a0 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_demod.c:421
i2c_device_probe+0x658/0xd10 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:593
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 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:3776
i2c_new_client_device+0x660/0xd30 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1020
dvb_module_probe+0x165/0x310 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:1039
vidtv_bridge_probe_demod drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:354 [inline]
vidtv_bridge_dvb_init drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:430 [inline]
vidtv_bridge_probe+0x370/0xa30 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:510
platform_probe+0x106/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1507
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__driver_attach+0x21f/0x5b0 drivers/base/dd.c:1292
bus_for_each_dev+0x13e/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
bus_add_driver+0x305/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:763
driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:174
vidtv_bridge_init+0x52/0x80 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:602
do_one_initcall+0x11c/0x6f0 init/main.c:1353
do_initcall_level init/main.c:1415 [inline]
do_initcalls init/main.c:1431 [inline]
do_basic_setup init/main.c:1451 [inline]
kernel_init_freeable+0x6ea/0x7b0 init/main.c:1666
kernel_init+0x21/0x1e0 init/main.c:1556
ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
Freed by task 20213:
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
i2c_device_remove+0x81/0x280 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:632
device_remove+0xcb/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:616
__device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1349 [inline]
device_release_driver_internal+0x44e/0x620 drivers/base/dd.c:1372
bus_remove_device+0x2bc/0x560 drivers/base/bus.c:664
device_del+0x376/0x9b0 drivers/base/core.c:3965
device_unregister+0x1d/0xe0 drivers/base/core.c:4006
i2c_unregister_device+0xf5/0x270 drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c:1076
dvb_module_release drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:1061 [inline]
dvb_module_release+0x69/0x90 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:1055
vidtv_bridge_remove+0xd8/0x140 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:556
platform_remove+0x5f/0x80 drivers/base/platform.c:1524
device_remove+0xcb/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:616
__device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1349 [inline]
device_release_driver_internal+0x44e/0x620 drivers/base/dd.c:1372
unbind_store+0xf8/0x110 drivers/base/bus.c:244
drv_attr_store+0x74/0xb0 drivers/base/bus.c:125
sysfs_kf_write+0xf2/0x150 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3e0/0x5f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
vfs_write+0x6af/0x1050 fs/read_write.c:687
ksys_write+0x12a/0x250 fs/read_write.c:739
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802dc67000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 280 bytes inside of
freed 2048-byte region [ffff88802dc67000, ffff88802dc67800)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2dc60
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 ffff88801c022000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800080008 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c022000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800080008 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1210, tgid 1210 (kworker/1:2), ts 13830241599, free_ts 0
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+0xf46/0x3500 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+0xa2/0x660 mm/slub.c:3426
refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7310
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x372/0x680 mm/slub.c:4675
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4773 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4905 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x47b/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:5485
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [inline]
mousedev_create+0x95/0xb40 drivers/input/mousedev.c:856
mousedev_connect+0x26/0x310 drivers/input/mousedev.c:981
input_attach_handler.isra.0+0x177/0x1e0 drivers/input/input.c:1074
input_register_device.cold+0x139/0x375 drivers/input/input.c:2451
psmouse_connect+0x772/0xf50 drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c:1608
serio_connect_driver drivers/input/serio/serio.c:44 [inline]
serio_driver_probe+0x77/0xa0 drivers/input/serio/serio.c:748
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
page_owner free stack trace missing
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88802dc67000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88802dc67080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88802dc67100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88802dc67180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88802dc67200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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