Re: [syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release (3)

From: syzbot

Date: Sun Feb 22 2026 - 07:46:13 EST


Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dvb_frontend_release

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dvb_frontend_release+0x410/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:2916
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802b9c543c by task syz.0.19/6629

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6629 Comm: syz.0.19 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engi[ 145.718954][ T6629] Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
dvb_frontend_release+0x410/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:2916
__fput+0x461/0xa90 fs/file_table.c:469
task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 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:67 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xed/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
__exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f5097f2bf79
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe9efc5af8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007ffe9efc5be0 RCX: 00007f5097f2bf79
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000023863 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000001b33620000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffe9efc5c20
R13: 00007f50981a5fac R14: 00000000000238a9 R15: 00007f50981a5fa0
</TASK>

Allocated by task 1:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3a6/0x690 mm/slub.c:5339
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:962 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1200 [inline]
dvb_register_device+0x2fd/0x21e0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:472
dvb_register_frontend+0x665/0x970 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:3051
vidtv_bridge_dvb_init drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:436 [inline]
vidtv_bridge_probe+0x9aa/0xf80 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:508
platform_probe+0xf9/0x190 drivers/base/platform.c:1446
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:661
__driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:803
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:833
__driver_attach+0x3e7/0x710 drivers/base/dd.c:1227
bus_for_each_dev+0x23e/0x2c0 drivers/base/bus.c:383
bus_add_driver+0x348/0x670 drivers/base/bus.c:715
driver_register+0x23a/0x320 drivers/base/driver.c:249
vidtv_bridge_init+0x28/0x50 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridge.c:598
do_one_initcall+0x250/0x8d0 init/main.c:1382
do_initcall_level+0x104/0x190 init/main.c:1444
do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0 init/main.c:1460
kernel_init_freeable+0x2a6/0x3e0 init/main.c:1692
kernel_init+0x1d/0x1d0 init/main.c:1582
ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 6629:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x5c/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2687 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6124 [inline]
kfree+0x1c1/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6442
dvb_free_device drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:616 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
dvb_device_put drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:629 [inline]
dvb_generic_release+0x123/0x1c0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c:169
dvb_frontend_release+0x138/0x4e0 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:2914
__fput+0x461/0xa90 fs/file_table.c:469
task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 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:67 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xed/0x480 kernel/entry/common.c:98
__exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:226 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:256 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:325 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x32d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802b9c5400
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 60 bytes inside of
freed 512-byte region [ffff88802b9c5400, ffff88802b9c5600)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2b9c4
head: order:2 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813fe17c80 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813fe17c80 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000002 ffffea0000ae7101 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000004
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 13901801393, free_ts 0
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x28bb/0x2950 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3255 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3444
new_slab mm/slub.c:3502 [inline]
refill_objects+0x334/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7134
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2804 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x328/0x5f0 mm/slub.c:4578
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4681 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4815 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x44e/0x690 mm/slub.c:5334
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:962 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1200 [inline]
bus_add_driver+0x165/0x670 drivers/base/bus.c:699
driver_register+0x23a/0x320 drivers/base/driver.c:249
usb_register_driver+0x1e4/0x390 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:1078
do_one_initcall+0x250/0x8d0 init/main.c:1382
do_initcall_level+0x104/0x190 init/main.c:1444
do_initcalls+0x59/0xa0 init/main.c:1460
kernel_init_freeable+0x2a6/0x3e0 init/main.c:1692
kernel_init+0x1d/0x1d0 init/main.c:1582
ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88802b9c5300: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff88802b9c5380: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88802b9c5400: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88802b9c5480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88802b9c5500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Tested on:

commit: 32a92f8c Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=178a055a580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=5ca447d428dc7079
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ae466a728017ec940b41
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8
patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=14cadd94580000