From: syzbot <syzbot+1e2ef9bcb29af666b2e6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
To: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, jeffinphilip14@gmail.com,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [input?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in atkbd_set_repeat_rate
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:42:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a91742b.1d9ded08.62e62.00ea.GAE@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a90d9ef.4d659fcc.734b4.0019.GAE@google.com>
syzbot has found a reproducer for the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 818bebeb63dd drm/xe: Don't hand out the flat CCS storage a..
git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1237fd79580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=ccca94d2c01b9e78
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
C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=12f75d79580000
IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+1e2ef9bcb29af666b2e6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
==================================================================
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 ffff888036712164 by task kworker/1:2/850
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 850 Comm: kworker/1:2 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
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 29:
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:5484
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:988 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1309 [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 6032:
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:2678 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6372 [inline]
kfree+0x22b/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6687
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
fput_close_sync+0x118/0x250 fs/file_table.c:617
__do_sys_close fs/open.c:1560 [inline]
__se_sys_close fs/open.c:1545 [inline]
__x64_sys_close+0x8b/0x120 fs/open.c:1545
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 ffff888036712000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 356 bytes inside of
freed 4096-byte region [ffff888036712000, ffff888036713000)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x36710
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 ffff88801c043040 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c043040 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800040004 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 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5138, tgid 5138 (udevd), ts 23156728902
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:3267 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3382 [inline]
new_slab+0xa5/0x640 mm/slub.c:3428
refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7305
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2805 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x372/0x680 mm/slub.c:4677
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4775 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4907 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5336 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x66b/0x820 mm/slub.c:5362
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:992 [inline]
tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0xb6/0x690 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:251
tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
tomoyo_check_open_permission+0x2af/0x3c0 security/tomoyo/file.c:776
tomoyo_file_open+0x6b/0x90 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:334
security_file_open+0xb5/0x1e0 security/security.c:2739
do_dentry_open+0x588/0x14d0 fs/open.c:973
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
page last free pid 5139 tgid 5139 ts 23149284278 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:4586 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4919 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x26b/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:4933
alloc_empty_file+0x5b/0x1c0 fs/file_table.c:262
path_openat+0xdb/0x2440 fs/namei.c:4986
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:
ffff888036712000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888036712080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888036712100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff888036712180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888036712200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
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