From: syzbot <syzbot+1e2ef9bcb29af666b2e6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
To: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: [syzbot] [input?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in atkbd_set_repeat_rate
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:44:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a90d9ef.4d659fcc.734b4.0019.GAE@google.com> (raw)
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 66498c75b4f8 Merge tag 'dmaengine-7.3-rc1' of git://git.ke..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=12982979580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=a23a38e38809c577
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1e2ef9bcb29af666b2e6
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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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atkbd_set_repeat_rate.isra.0+0x44a/0x4e0 drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c:578
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888029cda164 by task kworker/1:1/29
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 29 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/05/2026
Workqueue: events atkbd_event_work
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
atkbd_set_repeat_rate.isra.0+0x44a/0x4e0 drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c:578
atkbd_event_work+0x12c/0x160 drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c:640
process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3387
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3470 [inline]
worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
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 5718:
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+0x2f8/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5563
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
input_allocate_device+0x44/0x350 drivers/input/input.c:1960
atkbd_connect+0x9e/0x9c0 drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c:1258
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
__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
serio_add_port drivers/input/serio/serio.c:512 [inline]
serio_handle_event+0x593/0x970 drivers/input/serio/serio.c:197
process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3387
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3470 [inline]
worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3551
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
Freed by task 5984:
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:2748 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
kfree+0x22b/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6792
input_dev_release+0xab/0xd0 drivers/input/input.c:1644
device_release+0xd2/0x270 drivers/base/core.c:2640
kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
kobject_put+0x1f7/0x640 lib/kobject.c:737
put_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:3884
input_put_device include/linux/input.h:391 [inline]
input_unregister_device+0xd8/0x110 drivers/input/input.c:2492
atkbd_disconnect+0xcb/0x150 drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c:966
serio_disconnect_driver drivers/input/serio/serio.c:62 [inline]
serio_driver_remove+0x7b/0xa0 drivers/input/serio/serio.c:755
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
serio_unregister_port+0x23/0x40 drivers/input/serio/serio.c:679
userio_char_release+0x91/0xe0 drivers/input/serio/userio.c:105
__fput+0x3ff/0xb50 fs/file_table.c:512
task_work_run+0x150/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:233
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
__exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:70 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x1d8/0x700 kernel/entry/common.c:101
__exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:207 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:230 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:336 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x661/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:89
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888029cda000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 356 bytes inside of
freed 4096-byte region [ffff888029cda000, ffff888029cdb000)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x29cd8
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 ffff88801c030140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c030140 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 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 4964, tgid 4964 (udevadm), ts 21467278812
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x110d/0x35b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2eb/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3462 [inline]
new_slab+0xa9/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:3513
refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7410
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x4f4/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5559
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
selinux_genfs_get_sid security/selinux/hooks.c:1341 [inline]
inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x7b1/0x1340 security/selinux/hooks.c:1565
selinux_d_instantiate+0x26/0x40 security/selinux/hooks.c:6685
security_d_instantiate+0x14c/0x1b0 security/security.c:3703
d_splice_alias_ops+0xd7/0x15b0 fs/dcache.c:3249
kernfs_iop_lookup+0x23f/0x2d0 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1288
lookup_open+0xa79/0x1990 fs/namei.c:4528
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:4767 [inline]
path_openat+0xa2c/0x2440 fs/namei.c:4997
do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:5029
do_sys_openat2+0x10f/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1417
page last free pid 4964 tgid 4964 ts 21458354491 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0x79f/0x10f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4683 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x278/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5559
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
kernfs_fop_open+0x23d/0xd50 fs/kernfs/file.c:634
do_dentry_open+0x6ab/0x14d0 fs/open.c:996
vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1101
do_open fs/namei.c:4837 [inline]
path_openat+0x19fa/0x2440 fs/namei.c:5000
do_file_open+0x20e/0x430 fs/namei.c:5029
do_sys_openat2+0x10f/0x1e0 fs/open.c:1417
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x12d/0x210 fs/open.c:1434
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
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888029cda000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888029cda080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888029cda100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888029cda180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888029cda200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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