KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/07/28 14:25
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+06fa667a0931a3430026@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 51d, last: 4d07h
✨ AI Jobs (3)
ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision
0f2525af repro-c Reproduced: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop 2026/08/26 14:11 2026/08/26 14:11 2026/08/26 15:04 a2b77b9e
65b4c4a3 repro-c Reproduced: ✅ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop 2026/08/07 14:03 2026/08/08 01:45 2026/08/08 02:38 e4ef95d6
e96faf3c assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ✅ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop 2026/07/26 00:50 2026/07/26 00:50 2026/07/26 01:37 492bab15
Discussions (2)
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[syzbot] [usb?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop 7 (12) 2026/08/27 02:31
[PATCH] usbip: prevent priv from uaf in cmd submit 1 (1) 2026/08/27 01:21
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop 19 1 27d 27d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/17 23:14
Last patch testing requests (5)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/09 18:57 12m retest repro upstream report job log log
2026/08/27 00:46 19m eadavis@sina.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 818bebeb63dd OK job log log
2026/08/27 00:26 19m hdanton@sina.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 818bebeb63dd OK job log log
2026/08/26 16:16 12m nogikh@google.com git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c report job log log
2026/08/08 08:25 21m nogikh@google.com upstream error

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in stub_recv_cmd_submit drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:609 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in stub_rx_pdu drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:688 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in stub_rx_loop+0x2d3b/0x31c0 drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:707
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888034999db0 by task stub_rx/6028

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6028 Comm: stub_rx 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
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
 stub_recv_cmd_submit drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:609 [inline]
 stub_rx_pdu drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:688 [inline]
 stub_rx_loop+0x2d3b/0x31c0 drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:707
 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 6028:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 unpoison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:340 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x89/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 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
 stub_priv_alloc drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:314 [inline]
 stub_recv_cmd_submit drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:490 [inline]
 stub_rx_pdu drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:688 [inline]
 stub_rx_loop+0x638/0x31c0 drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:707
 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 6029:
 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]
 kmem_cache_free+0x127/0x6b0 mm/slub.c:6499
 stub_free_priv_and_urb+0x427/0x570 drivers/usb/usbip/stub_main.c:321
 stub_send_ret_submit+0xecf/0x1810 drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c:333
 stub_tx_loop+0xe2/0x3e0 drivers/usb/usbip/stub_tx.c:437
 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

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888034999d80
 which belongs to the cache stub_priv of size 64
The buggy address is located 48 bytes inside of
 freed 64-byte region [ffff888034999d80, ffff888034999dc0)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888034999e00 pfn:0x34999
flags: 0xfff00000000200(workingset|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000200 ffff8881016c7540 ffff88802aafa948 ffff88802aafa948
raw: ffff888034999e00 000000080020001c 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 6028, tgid 6028 (stub_rx), ts 78215496489
 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]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x46e/0x6a0 mm/slub.c:4933
 stub_priv_alloc drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:314 [inline]
 stub_recv_cmd_submit drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:490 [inline]
 stub_rx_pdu drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:688 [inline]
 stub_rx_loop+0x638/0x31c0 drivers/usb/usbip/stub_rx.c:707
 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
page last free pid 15 tgid 15 ts 77527058318 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
 __pagetable_free include/linux/mm.h:3745 [inline]
 pagetable_free include/linux/mm.h:3769 [inline]
 pagetable_dtor_free include/linux/mm.h:3868 [inline]
 __tlb_remove_table include/asm-generic/tlb.h:221 [inline]
 __tlb_remove_table_free mm/mmu_gather.c:228 [inline]
 tlb_remove_table_rcu+0x2cf/0x380 mm/mmu_gather.c:291
 rcu_do_batch kernel/rcu/tree.c:2645 [inline]
 rcu_core+0x5a2/0x10e0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2897
 handle_softirqs+0x1e6/0x9d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:519 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x194/0x210 kernel/softirq.c:767
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30 kernel/softirq.c:784
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa3/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1062
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:674

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888034999c80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888034999d00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff888034999d80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
                                     ^
 ffff888034999e00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff888034999e80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/26 16:48 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 818bebeb63dd dd737a83 .config console log report C ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:31 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:31 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:31 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:30 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:30 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:30 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:30 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:29 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
2026/07/24 14:18 upstream 48a5a7ab8d6a dd737a83 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in stub_rx_loop
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.