syzbot

 sign-in | mailing list | source | docs
🐞 Open [463]
🐞 Fixed [21]
🐞 Invalid [166]
⬇ Missing Backports [18]
≡ Crashes
Kernel Health Bugs/Month Bug Lifetimes Fuzzing
💬 Send us feedback

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

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/07/10 08:57
Reported-by: syzbot+4aedd796659b42864ece@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 247d, last: 17d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (6)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb usb 19 1 937d 935d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/11/28 05:12
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb (2) usb 22 317 2d12h 721d 0/29 upstream: reported on 2024/03/22 17:26
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb 19 39 265d 854d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/09/30 06:38
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb (2) usb 19 1 1198d 1194d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/03/31 19:51
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb (2) 19 23 2d16h 147d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2025/10/17 22:12
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb 19 syz error 31 6d03h 707d 0/3 upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/04/06 03:35

Sample crash report:
xpad 2-1:179.65: xpad_irq_in - usb_submit_urb failed with result -19
xpad 2-1:179.65: xpad_irq_out - usb_submit_urb failed with result -19
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in register_lock_class+0x80b/0x8a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1333
Read of size 1 at addr ffff88807dbf3891 by task swapper/1/0

CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x18c/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 register_lock_class+0x80b/0x8a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1333
 __lock_acquire+0x188/0x7d40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5014
 lock_acquire+0x19e/0x420 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xb4/0x100 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
 __wake_up_common_lock kernel/sched/wait.c:137 [inline]
 __wake_up+0x10b/0x1a0 kernel/sched/wait.c:160
 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x396/0x520 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1653
 dummy_timer+0xc04/0x3080 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1993
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1750 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x52a/0xc40 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1814
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x187/0x2b0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:1831
 handle_softirqs+0x280/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:578
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:612 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:452 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xd3/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:661
 irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:673
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa4/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1088
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:687
RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xf/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:148
Code: c7 22 02 c3 cc cc cc cc cc cc cc f3 0f 1e fa 0f 0b 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 66 90 0f 00 2d 83 d1 43 00 fb f4 <c3> 66 0f 1f 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 54 53 50 8b 2f eb 2e 41 89 de 80
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000187de0 EFLAGS: 000002c2
RAX: 8f652d1cbb7eb100 RBX: ffffffff8162a490 RCX: 8f652d1cbb7eb100
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff8acac900 RDI: ffffffff8b1c82e0
RBP: ffffc90000187f20 R08: ffff8880b8f36b2b R09: 1ffff110171e6d65
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed10171e6d66 R12: 1ffff110036ce780
R13: 1ffff92000030fc8 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: dffffc0000000000
 arch_safe_halt arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h:108 [inline]
 default_idle+0x13/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:753
 default_idle_call+0x6c/0xa0 kernel/sched/idle.c:97
 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:170 [inline]
 do_idle+0x1f0/0x4e0 kernel/sched/idle.c:282
 cpu_startup_entry+0x43/0x60 kernel/sched/idle.c:380
 start_secondary+0xee/0xf0 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:323
 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0x179/0x17b
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6112:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 xpad_probe+0x41c/0x1ec0 drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c:2070
 usb_probe_interface+0x5c9/0xb20 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c2/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1030
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:534
 device_add+0x85b/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3683
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a79/0x20c0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2207
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x13d/0x270 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x25b/0xb20 drivers/base/dd.c:658
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:800
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:830
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:958
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c2/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1030
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:534
 device_add+0x85b/0xc20 drivers/base/core.c:3683
 usb_new_device+0xa3c/0x1660 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2660
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5529 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5669 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833 [inline]
 hub_event+0x29bf/0x49f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5915
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

Freed by task 8:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2e/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:164 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1811 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x130/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1e0 mm/slub.c:3843
 xpad_disconnect+0x350/0x480 drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c:2251
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1f2/0x870 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:569 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1272 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x4cb/0x7a0 drivers/base/dd.c:1295
 bus_remove_device+0x342/0x400 drivers/base/bus.c:576
 device_del+0x522/0x910 drivers/base/core.c:3872
 usb_disable_device+0x3e9/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1416
 usb_disconnect+0x34c/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2315
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5369 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5669 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5833 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1d0f/0x49f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5915
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
 ret_from_fork+0x48/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:152
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:293

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807dbf3800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 145 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff88807dbf3800, ffff88807dbf3c00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001f6fc00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7dbf0
head:ffffea0001f6fc00 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017c41dc0 ffffea0001e0e800 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x152820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 3446, tgid 3446 (kworker/u4:7), ts 93008940510, free_ts 93007417662
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1581
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1588 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1951/0x19e0 mm/page_alloc.c:3220
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4486
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5d/0x12f0 mm/slub.c:3253
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3339 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3392 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3485 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x19e/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0xa4/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1020
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 neigh_alloc net/core/neighbour.c:495 [inline]
 ___neigh_create+0x6d2/0x2440 net/core/neighbour.c:649
 ip6_finish_output2+0x1581/0x1630 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:132
 dst_output include/net/dst.h:467 [inline]
 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:304 [inline]
 ndisc_send_skb+0xc26/0x14f0 net/ipv6/ndisc.c:513
 addrconf_dad_completed+0x7ef/0xd90 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:4342
 addrconf_dad_work+0xc90/0x1530 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:-1
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa5d/0x15d0 kernel/workqueue.c:2711
 worker_thread+0xa55/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:2792
 kthread+0x2fa/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1181 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7b2/0x8c0 mm/page_alloc.c:2365
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2458
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2127 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1cf/0x210 mm/slub.c:2667
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2743
 __slab_free+0x319/0x400 mm/slub.c:3700
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xd0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:185
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x143/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:292
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x6e/0x4b0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x14c/0x320 mm/slub.c:3540
 __alloc_skb+0x103/0x2c0 net/core/skbuff.c:643
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1284 [inline]
 mld_newpack+0x154/0xbe0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1743
 add_grhead+0x5a/0x2a0 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1854
 add_grec+0x13ad/0x1660 net/ipv6/mcast.c:1992
 mld_send_initial_cr+0xed/0x240 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2237
 ipv6_mc_dad_complete+0x88/0x210 net/ipv6/mcast.c:2248

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807dbf3780: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88807dbf3800: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807dbf3880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88807dbf3900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807dbf3980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess), 1 bytes skipped:
   0:	22 02                	and    (%rdx),%al
   2:	c3                   	ret
   3:	cc                   	int3
   4:	cc                   	int3
   5:	cc                   	int3
   6:	cc                   	int3
   7:	cc                   	int3
   8:	cc                   	int3
   9:	cc                   	int3
   a:	f3 0f 1e fa          	endbr64
   e:	0f 0b                	ud2
  10:	66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 	cs nopw 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
  17:	00 00 00
  1a:	f3 0f 1e fa          	endbr64
  1e:	66 90                	xchg   %ax,%ax
  20:	0f 00 2d 83 d1 43 00 	verw   0x43d183(%rip)        # 0x43d1aa
  27:	fb                   	sti
  28:	f4                   	hlt
* 29:	c3                   	ret <-- trapping instruction
  2a:	66 0f 1f 00          	nopw   (%rax)
  2e:	55                   	push   %rbp
  2f:	41 57                	push   %r15
  31:	41 56                	push   %r14
  33:	41 54                	push   %r12
  35:	53                   	push   %rbx
  36:	50                   	push   %rax
  37:	8b 2f                	mov    (%rdi),%ebp
  39:	eb 2e                	jmp    0x69
  3b:	41 89 de             	mov    %ebx,%r14d
  3e:	80                   	.byte 0x80

Crashes (16):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/25 07:38 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 787dfb7c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2026/02/23 13:53 linux-6.6.y 7a137e9bfa0e 6beca497 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2026/01/30 15:07 linux-6.6.y 2cf6f68313dc ae7dc18c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2026/01/28 04:03 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 3029c699 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2026/01/19 12:03 linux-6.6.y cbb31f77b879 a9fc5226 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2026/01/04 22:20 linux-6.6.y 5fa4793a2d2d d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/11/17 15:49 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd ef766cd7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/11/15 19:10 linux-6.6.y 0a805b6ea8cd f7988ea4 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/10/23 21:58 linux-6.6.y 4a243110dc88 c0460fcd .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/09/24 08:09 linux-6.6.y af1544b5d072 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/09/11 19:49 linux-6.6.y 60a9e718726f e2beed91 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/08/29 23:18 linux-6.6.y cc1a1c5b404a 807a3b61 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/08/08 02:24 linux-6.6.y 3a8ababb8b6a 6a893178 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/07/24 01:08 linux-6.6.y d96eb99e2f0e 0c1d6ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/07/14 21:46 linux-6.6.y 9247f4e6573a d8fc7335 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
2025/07/10 08:56 linux-6.6.y a5df3a702b2c 956bd956 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __usb_hcd_giveback_urb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.