* [syzbot] [mtd?] memory leak in phram_setup
@ 2026-10-17 20:55 syzbot
2026-10-17 23:32 ` Forwarded: [PATCH] mtd: phram: fix memory leak in phram_setup() syzbot
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From: syzbot @ 2026-10-17 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: joern, linux-kernel, linux-mtd, miquel.raynal, richard,
syzkaller-bugs, vigneshr
Hello,
syzbot found the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 24a19b953e2a Linux 7.3-rc7
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15a128a5580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=eeccc827207f48ec
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c9d8bc9f8ccc03799e1f
compiler: gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=110d73d1580000
C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=1025968e580000
Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/0f1e259089c6/disk-24a19b95.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/6b65050296a3/vmlinux-24a19b95.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/cb73ff77ea56/bzImage-24a19b95.xz
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Reported-by: syzbot+c9d8bc9f8ccc03799e1f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810afde7f8 (size 8):
comm "syz.0.17", pid 5903, jiffies 4294943995
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
70 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 p0......
backtrace (crc 43334c2):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4696 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x40d/0x560 mm/slub.c:5545
__kmemdup_nul mm/util.c:64 [inline]
kstrdup+0x3c/0x80 mm/util.c:84
parse_name drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:224 [inline]
phram_setup+0x1c2/0x360 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:286
phram_param_call+0xe4/0x110 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:349
param_attr_store+0x99/0x130 kernel/params.c:591
module_attr_store+0x3d/0x60 kernel/params.c:906
sysfs_kf_write+0x94/0xb0 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1f1/0x2d0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
vfs_write+0x3ae/0x720 fs/read_write.c:687
ksys_write+0xa5/0x170 fs/read_write.c:739
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xe9/0x530 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810afdebe8 (size 8):
comm "syz.0.18", pid 5905, jiffies 4294943995
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
70 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 p0......
backtrace (crc 43334c2):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4696 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x40d/0x560 mm/slub.c:5545
__kmemdup_nul mm/util.c:64 [inline]
kstrdup+0x3c/0x80 mm/util.c:84
parse_name drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:224 [inline]
phram_setup+0x1c2/0x360 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:286
phram_param_call+0xe4/0x110 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:349
param_attr_store+0x99/0x130 kernel/params.c:591
module_attr_store+0x3d/0x60 kernel/params.c:906
sysfs_kf_write+0x94/0xb0 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1f1/0x2d0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
vfs_write+0x3ae/0x720 fs/read_write.c:687
ksys_write+0xa5/0x170 fs/read_write.c:739
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xe9/0x530 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810afde5b8 (size 8):
comm "syz.0.19", pid 5908, jiffies 4294943996
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
70 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 p0......
backtrace (crc 43334c2):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4696 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x40d/0x560 mm/slub.c:5545
__kmemdup_nul mm/util.c:64 [inline]
kstrdup+0x3c/0x80 mm/util.c:84
parse_name drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:224 [inline]
phram_setup+0x1c2/0x360 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:286
phram_param_call+0xe4/0x110 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c:349
param_attr_store+0x99/0x130 kernel/params.c:591
module_attr_store+0x3d/0x60 kernel/params.c:906
sysfs_kf_write+0x94/0xb0 fs/sysfs/file.c:145
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1f1/0x2d0 fs/kernfs/file.c:345
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:595 [inline]
vfs_write+0x3ae/0x720 fs/read_write.c:687
ksys_write+0xa5/0x170 fs/read_write.c:739
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xe9/0x530 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
connection error: failed to recv *flatrpc.ExecutorMessageRawT: EOF
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* Forwarded: [PATCH] mtd: phram: fix memory leak in phram_setup()
2026-10-17 20:55 [syzbot] [mtd?] memory leak in phram_setup syzbot
@ 2026-10-17 23:32 ` syzbot
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From: syzbot @ 2026-10-17 23:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel, syzkaller-bugs
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Subject: [PATCH] mtd: phram: fix memory leak in phram_setup()
Author: kartikey406@gmail.com
#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
phram_setup() allocates the device name with kstrdup() in
parse_name(). The error paths that follow (illegal start address,
illegal device length, illegal erasesize, illegal erasesize or len,
and len not a multiple of erasesize) use the parse_err() macro, which
expands to pr_err() followed by an immediate "return 1". The
"goto error" statements after it are therefore never reached, and
kfree(name) at the error label is skipped, leaking the name.
Replace parse_err() with pr_err() at those sites so control reaches
the error label and frees the name. Leave the parse_err() calls that
run before parse_name() alone, since nothing has been allocated yet.
As a side effect, these paths now return a negative errno instead of
1, which is the correct convention for a module parameter setter.
Reported-by: syzbot+c9d8bc9f8ccc03799e1f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c9d8bc9f8ccc03799e1f
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
index b42cadcd76b1..7aed57b31967 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c
@@ -289,34 +289,34 @@ static int phram_setup(const char *val)
ret = parse_num64(&start, token[1]);
if (ret) {
- parse_err("illegal start address\n");
+ pr_err("illegal start address\n");
goto error;
}
ret = parse_num64(&len, token[2]);
if (ret) {
- parse_err("illegal device length\n");
+ pr_err("illegal device length\n");
goto error;
}
if (token[3]) {
ret = parse_num64(&erasesize, token[3]);
if (ret) {
- parse_err("illegal erasesize\n");
+ pr_err("illegal erasesize\n");
goto error;
}
}
if (len == 0 || erasesize == 0 || erasesize > len
|| erasesize > UINT_MAX) {
- parse_err("illegal erasesize or len\n");
+ pr_err("illegal erasesize or len\n");
ret = -EINVAL;
goto error;
}
div_u64_rem(len, (uint32_t)erasesize, &rem);
if (rem) {
- parse_err("len is not multiple of erasesize\n");
+ pr_err("len is not multiple of erasesize\n");
ret = -EINVAL;
goto error;
}
--
2.43.0
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