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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/22 08:53
Subsystems: media
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Reported-by: syzbot+07b93bb3189febcab189@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 12d, last: 2h27m
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[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device 0 (1) 2026/01/22 08:53

Sample crash report:
em28xx 10-1:3.169: Closing input extension
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in media_device_unregister drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:804 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in media_device_unregister+0x565/0x5e0 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:782
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88813ab08210 by task kworker/0:2/25609

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 25609 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
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+0x156/0x4c9 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1a0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 media_device_unregister drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:804 [inline]
 media_device_unregister+0x565/0x5e0 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:782
 em28xx_unregister_media_device+0x4e/0xe0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3511
 em28xx_release_resources+0x79/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3532
 em28xx_usb_disconnect.cold+0x17d/0x253 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:4201
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1dd/0x9e0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:571 [inline]
 device_remove+0x12a/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:563
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1282 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x42e/0x600 drivers/base/dd.c:1305
 bus_remove_device+0x22f/0x440 drivers/base/bus.c:616
 device_del+0x376/0x9b0 drivers/base/core.c:3878
 usb_disable_device+0x367/0x810 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1418
 usb_disconnect+0x2e2/0x9a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2345
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5407 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1d0c/0x4af0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work+0x9c2/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3257
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5da/0xe40 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x3b3/0x730 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x6c3/0xa20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5229:
 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+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init.cold+0x94/0x3503 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2532
 em28xx_init_extension+0x13a/0x200 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1117
 request_module_async+0x61/0x80 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3457
 process_one_work+0x9c2/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3257
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5da/0xe40 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x3b3/0x730 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x6c3/0xa20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Freed by task 5229:
 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+0x43/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2540 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
 kfree+0x1ad/0x630 mm/slub.c:6878
 kref_put.isra.0+0x56/0x90 include/linux/kref.h:65
 em28xx_v4l2_init.cold+0x280/0x3503 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2901
 em28xx_init_extension+0x13a/0x200 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1117
 request_module_async+0x61/0x80 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3457
 process_one_work+0x9c2/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3257
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5da/0xe40 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x3b3/0x730 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x6c3/0xa20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813ab08000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 528 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff88813ab08000, ffff88813ab0a000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x13ab08
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
anon flags: 0x200000000000040(head|node=0|zone=2)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0200000000000040 ffff888100042280 ffffea000432ae00 dead000000000003
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0200000000000040 ffff888100042280 ffffea000432ae00 dead000000000003
head: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0200000000000003 ffffea0004eac201 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 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 37, tgid 37 (kworker/1:1), ts 1139189494646, free_ts 1138809719770
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1e1/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1884
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1892 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xd57/0x3b20 mm/page_alloc.c:3945
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x269/0x2230 mm/page_alloc.c:5240
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xe8/0x410 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3248 [inline]
 new_slab+0x2c4/0x440 mm/slub.c:3302
 ___slab_alloc+0xda3/0x1ca0 mm/slub.c:4656
 __slab_alloc.isra.0+0x63/0x110 mm/slub.c:4779
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x5c3/0x990 mm/slub.c:5669
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
 cxusb_d680_dmb_drain_video+0xb1/0x260 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c:486
 cxusb_d680_dmb_frontend_attach+0x3bc/0x680 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c:1273
 dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_init+0x354/0x5b0 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dvb.c:290
 dvb_usb_adapter_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:90 [inline]
 dvb_usb_init drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:186 [inline]
 dvb_usb_device_init.cold+0xbfb/0x14c3 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c:310
 cxusb_probe+0x297/0x610 drivers/media/usb/dvb-usb/cxusb.c:1653
 usb_probe_interface+0x303/0x8f0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:581 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x1de/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:801
page last free pid 13908 tgid 13907 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x7d1/0x1010 mm/page_alloc.c:2973
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x127/0x160 mm/slub.c:3886
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4953 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller_noprof+0x307/0x9a0 mm/slub.c:5764
 __kmemdup_nul mm/util.c:64 [inline]
 kstrdup+0x51/0xe0 mm/util.c:84
 kstrdup_const+0x63/0x80 mm/util.c:104
 __kernfs_new_node+0x9b/0x960 fs/kernfs/dir.c:633
 kernfs_new_node+0x11b/0x1a0 fs/kernfs/dir.c:718
 kernfs_create_link+0xcc/0x240 fs/kernfs/symlink.c:39
 sysfs_do_create_link_sd+0x90/0x140 fs/sysfs/symlink.c:44
 sysfs_do_create_link fs/sysfs/symlink.c:80 [inline]
 sysfs_create_link+0x61/0xc0 fs/sysfs/symlink.c:92
 module_add_driver+0x1c0/0x420 drivers/base/module.c:74
 bus_add_driver+0x34a/0x5b0 drivers/base/bus.c:719
 driver_register+0x1e2/0x360 drivers/base/driver.c:249

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88813ab08100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88813ab08180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88813ab08200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88813ab08280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88813ab08300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/30 17:01 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 0a06917432a7 ae7dc18c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/01/21 07:33 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 5ac87cd859ec 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/01/18 05:05 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing fa3bb5011f33 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.