KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/01 20:15
Subsystems: media
Labels: actionable prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+39ff299961a7c07f00f0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 70d, last: 70d
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78299e3c repro-c 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open 2026/06/17 12:57 2026/06/17 16:17 2026/06/17 16:17 b62b3ded 
dashboard requested TargetOS "linux" TargetArch "386", but agent does not support it
db4a733d repro-c 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open 2026/06/15 14:56 2026/06/15 14:56 2026/06/15 14:56 50bb0618 
dashboard requested TargetOS "linux" TargetArch "386", but agent does not support it
fe82f03f moderation Actionable: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open 2026/06/01 20:11 2026/06/01 20:11 2026/06/01 20:15 386cc6da 

			
				
	

	
	

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Sample crash report:

	
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dev_get_drvdata include/linux/device.h:927 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in video_get_drvdata include/media/v4l2-dev.h:491 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in video_drvdata include/media/v4l2-dev.h:523 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in em28xx_v4l2_open+0x57/0xa20 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2297
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880655d8330 by task v4l_id/11714

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11714 Comm: v4l_id Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
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
 dev_get_drvdata include/linux/device.h:927 [inline]
 video_get_drvdata include/media/v4l2-dev.h:491 [inline]
 video_drvdata include/media/v4l2-dev.h:523 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_open+0x57/0xa20 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2297
 v4l2_open+0x1bf/0x3a0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:433
 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: 0033:0x7f23334a7407
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:00007ffc786a3720 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f2333bc1880 RCX: 00007f23334a7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffc786a4f1a RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffc786a3970 R14: 00007f2333d28000 R15: 000055bf73e474d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 24475:
 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:5419
 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:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x389/0x470 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 24475:
 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:6250 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x640 mm/slub.c:6565
 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:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x389/0x470 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 ffff8880655d8000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 816 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff8880655d8000, ffff8880655da000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff8880655dc000 pfn:0x655d8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000240(workingset|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000240 ffff88813fe1b280 ffffea0001ddbc10 ffff88813fe19ac8
raw: ffff8880655dc000 0000000800020001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000240 ffff88813fe1b280 ffffea0001ddbc10 ffff88813fe19ac8
head: ffff8880655dc000 0000000800020001 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 24475, tgid 24475 (kworker/0:1), ts 2367631693947, free_ts 2367608772413
 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:7271
 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:5414
 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:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x389/0x470 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
page last free pid 19335 tgid 19335 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:5612
 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]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2ba/0x660 mm/slub.c:5414
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 vidtv_s302m_access_unit_init drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_s302m.c:151 [inline]
 vidtv_s302m_alloc_au drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_s302m.c:198 [inline]
 vidtv_s302m_encode+0x367/0x1880 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_s302m.c:408
 vidtv_mux_poll_encoders drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:333 [inline]
 vidtv_mux_tick+0x1358/0x24e0 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_mux.c:410
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3314 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb5d/0x1860 kernel/workqueue.c:3397
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x389/0x470 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

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880655d8200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880655d8280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880655d8300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                     ^
 ffff8880655d8380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880655d8400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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