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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/19 07:21
Subsystems: media usb
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Reported-by: syzbot+1a7507a194fff09e5c44@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 28d, last: 4h10m
Cause bisection: failed (error log, bisect log)
  
Discussions (2)
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[syzbot] [media?] [usb?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open 3 (9) 2026/03/20 10:30
[PATCH] media: usb: em28xx: fix the race condition between init extension and open 1 (1) 2026/03/19 16:49
Last patch testing requests (5)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/03/20 06:23 27m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next report log
2026/03/19 16:45 4h43m eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next OK log
2026/03/19 12:40 10h29m kartikey406@gmail.com patch linux-next error
2026/03/19 12:20 10h42m eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next error
2026/03/19 09:00 28m eadavis@qq.com patch linux-next report log

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in v4l2_open+0x395/0x3a0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:444
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888021f30858 by task v4l_id/6538

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6538 Comm: v4l_id Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/18/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 v4l2_open+0x395/0x3a0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:444
 chrdev_open+0x4cd/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:411
 do_dentry_open+0x785/0x14e0 fs/open.c:947
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1079
 do_open fs/namei.c:4699 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2e08/0x3860 fs/namei.c:4858
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:4887
 do_sys_openat2+0x113/0x200 fs/open.c:1364
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1370 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1386 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1381 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1381
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f5b408a7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007ffec9a2afb0 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5b40f61880 RCX: 00007f5b408a7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffec9a2bf1b RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffec9a2b200 R14: 00007f5b410c8000 R15: 0000561e019594d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6038:
 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+0x31c/0x660 mm/slub.c:5412
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0x10b/0x2eb0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2707
 em28xx_init_extension+0x120/0x1c0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1248
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3385
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3466
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 6038:
 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:2689 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6242 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x640 mm/slub.c:6557
 em28xx_free_v4l2 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2287 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0x1685/0x2eb0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:3078
 em28xx_init_extension+0x120/0x1c0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1248
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3302 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3385
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3466
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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 ffff888021f30000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 2136 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff888021f30000, ffff888021f32000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x21f30
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 ffff88813fe35280 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe35280 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5930, tgid 5930 (syz-executor), ts 102745016172, free_ts 102570333698
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1858
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1866 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24ba/0x2540 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5226
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3467
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3525 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x339/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:7247
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x321/0x720 mm/slub.c:4651
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4749 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4883 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x392/0x660 mm/slub.c:5407
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 ipv4_sysctl_init_net+0x2af/0x3e0 net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c:1687
 ops_init+0x35c/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137
 setup_net+0x118/0x340 net/core/net_namespace.c:446
 copy_net_ns+0x50e/0x730 net/core/net_namespace.c:581
 create_new_namespaces+0x3e7/0x6a0 kernel/nsproxy.c:132
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x149/0x190 kernel/nsproxy.c:234
 ksys_unshare+0x582/0x9e0 kernel/fork.c:3242
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3316 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3314 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x50 kernel/fork.c:3314
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
page last free pid 5922 tgid 5922 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1402 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xbc7/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 __slab_free+0x274/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:5605
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4569 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4898 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5291 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x316/0x760 mm/slub.c:5304
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 __register_sysctl_table+0x72/0x1340 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:1379
 neigh_sysctl_register+0x9b1/0xa90 net/core/neighbour.c:3922
 addrconf_sysctl_register+0xb3/0x1c0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:7372
 ipv6_add_dev+0xd26/0x13a0 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:460
 addrconf_notify+0x771/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3655
 notifier_call_chain+0x1ad/0x3d0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2285 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2299 [inline]
 register_netdevice+0x173a/0x1cf0 net/core/dev.c:11494
 register_netdev+0x40/0x60 net/core/dev.c:11572
 vti6_init_net+0x238/0x370 net/ipv6/ip6_vti.c:1158
 ops_init+0x35c/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:137

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888021f30700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888021f30780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888021f30800: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                    ^
 ffff888021f30880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888021f30900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (34):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/08 12:09 linux-next cc13002a9f98 2c961e87 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/06 06:41 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/05 21:37 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/02 08:17 linux-next bd0f139e5fc1 0cb124d5 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/29 15:11 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/27 05:09 linux-next 66ba480978ce 50cdcaa1 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/25 06:33 linux-next 85964cdcad0f 35e4ff71 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/21 18:38 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/18 05:35 linux-next 8e5a478b6d6a c8810548 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/10 01:06 linux-next cc13002a9f98 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/09 13:05 linux-next cc13002a9f98 38c8e246 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/08 15:41 linux-next cc13002a9f98 d9b7f621 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/06 20:19 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/06 18:27 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/05 18:51 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/05 08:55 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/03 12:17 linux-next cc13002a9f98 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/02 22:31 linux-next cc13002a9f98 8b15d4ae .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/29 13:06 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/29 08:22 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/28 18:36 linux-next 3b058d1aeeef 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/25 15:05 linux-next 85964cdcad0f 4367a094 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/23 23:15 linux-next 09c0f7f1bcdb 5e3db351 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/23 15:14 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5e3db351 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/23 06:46 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/23 01:58 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/22 23:09 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/22 07:47 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/20 23:36 linux-next 785f0eb2f85d 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/18 13:42 linux-next 8e5a478b6d6a 0199f9a1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/03/18 04:31 linux-next 8e5a478b6d6a c8810548 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/15 08:52 linux-next e6efabc0afca e2e976a8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/14 20:06 linux-next e6efabc0afca 362d1323 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/04/14 00:52 linux-next 1c7cc4904160 1a086e7c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.