KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in snd_usb_midi_v2_free

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/10 22:53
Reported-by: syzbot+6850b881c9cf84070e18@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 16d, last: 9d14h
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in snd_usb_midi_v2_free sound prio:high 22 256 6d13h 22d 27/29 upstream: reported on 2026/08/05 00:12

Sample crash report:
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 15
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in free_all_midi2_umps sound/usb/midi2.c:707 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in snd_usb_midi_v2_free+0x602/0x7b0 sound/usb/midi2.c:945
Write of size 8 at addr ffff8880676da358 by task syz.2.3453/19588

CPU: 0 PID: 19588 Comm: syz.2.3453 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 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
 free_all_midi2_umps sound/usb/midi2.c:707 [inline]
 snd_usb_midi_v2_free+0x602/0x7b0 sound/usb/midi2.c:945
 snd_usb_midi_v2_free_all+0x67/0x90 sound/usb/midi2.c:1245
 snd_usb_audio_free+0x4c/0x100 sound/usb/card.c:494
 snd_card_do_free sound/core/init.c:601 [inline]
 release_card_device+0x9f/0x1a0 sound/core/init.c:153
 device_release+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x21b/0x450 lib/kobject.c:737
 usb_audio_disconnect+0x60c/0x700 sound/usb/card.c:1007
 usb_unbind_interface+0x207/0x870 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1351 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x458/0x6f0 drivers/base/dd.c:1374
 bus_remove_device+0x43b/0x520 drivers/base/bus.c:624
 device_del+0x51f/0x910 drivers/base/core.c:3889
 usb_disable_device+0x3ee/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1474
 usb_disconnect+0x340/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2315
 hub_disconnect_children drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2264 [inline]
 usb_disconnect+0x2b0/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2308
 usb_remove_hcd+0x272/0x600 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:3039
 dummy_hcd_remove+0xed/0x120 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2761
 platform_remove+0x6d/0xe0 drivers/base/platform.c:1396
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:626 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1351 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x408/0x6f0 drivers/base/dd.c:1374
 unbind_store+0x1a1/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:244
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a4/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f02b0b9e0d9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f02b1b1a028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f02b0e25fa0 RCX: 00007f02b0b9e0d9
RDX: 000000000000000b RSI: 0000200000000240 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f02b0c35024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f02b0e26038 R14: 00007f02b0e25fa0 R15: 00007fff69fe4f38
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6805:
 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]
 snd_ump_endpoint_new+0x7d/0x3a0 sound/core/ump.c:137
 create_midi2_ump+0x314/0x7b0 sound/usb/midi2.c:735
 find_matching_ep_partner sound/usb/midi2.c:799 [inline]
 parse_midi_2_0 sound/usb/midi2.c:977 [inline]
 snd_usb_midi_v2_create+0x1382/0x48a0 sound/usb/midi2.c:1134
 snd_usb_create_stream+0x262/0x5d0 sound/usb/card.c:182
 snd_usb_create_streams sound/usb/card.c:282 [inline]
 usb_audio_probe+0xead/0x1f00 sound/usb/card.c:893
 usb_probe_interface+0x5c2/0xaf0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x247/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:717
 __driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:879
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:909
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:1037
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c1/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1109
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:580
 device_add+0x87c/0xc40 drivers/base/core.c:3700
 usb_set_configuration+0x1ad0/0x2150 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2265
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x12a/0x260 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x247/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:717
 __driver_probe_device+0x1f5/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:879
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:909
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ca/0x510 drivers/base/dd.c:1037
 bus_for_each_drv+0x252/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:459
 __device_attach+0x2c1/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:1109
 bus_probe_device+0x180/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:580
 device_add+0x87c/0xc40 drivers/base/core.c:3700
 usb_new_device+0x995/0x1550 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+0x29d5/0x4a80 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5915
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
 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 19588:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4e/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x28/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:522
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1f0 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/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
 snd_rawmidi_free+0x3f2/0x410 sound/core/rawmidi.c:1996
 snd_rawmidi_dev_free+0x38/0x40 sound/core/rawmidi.c:2005
 __snd_device_free+0x1cd/0x2e0 sound/core/device.c:76
 snd_device_free_all+0xcf/0x180 sound/core/device.c:233
 snd_card_do_free sound/core/init.c:599 [inline]
 release_card_device+0x6f/0x1a0 sound/core/init.c:153
 device_release+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x21b/0x450 lib/kobject.c:737
 usb_audio_disconnect+0x60c/0x700 sound/usb/card.c:1007
 usb_unbind_interface+0x207/0x870 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1351 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x458/0x6f0 drivers/base/dd.c:1374
 bus_remove_device+0x43b/0x520 drivers/base/bus.c:624
 device_del+0x51f/0x910 drivers/base/core.c:3889
 usb_disable_device+0x3ee/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1474
 usb_disconnect+0x340/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2315
 hub_disconnect_children drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2264 [inline]
 usb_disconnect+0x2b0/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2308
 usb_remove_hcd+0x272/0x600 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:3039
 dummy_hcd_remove+0xed/0x120 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2761
 platform_remove+0x6d/0xe0 drivers/base/platform.c:1396
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:626 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1351 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x408/0x6f0 drivers/base/dd.c:1374
 unbind_store+0x1a1/0x1d0 drivers/base/bus.c:244
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3a4/0x520 fs/kernfs/file.c:352
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880676da000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 856 bytes inside of
 freed 4096-byte region [ffff8880676da000, ffff8880676db000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea00019db600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x676d8
head:ffffea00019db600 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
anon flags: 0xfff00000000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 00fff00000000840 ffff888017c42140 0000000000000000 dead000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 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 0x1d2820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 7285, tgid 7285 (kworker/u4:22), ts 207916409043, free_ts 205113806780
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1c1/0x200 mm/page_alloc.c:1582
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1589 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2181/0x22a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3221
 __alloc_pages+0x1f0/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4501
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x180 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc5c/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+0x11f/0x250 mm/slub.c:3534
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xa4/0x230 mm/slab_common.c:1027
 kmalloc_reserve+0x116/0x240 net/core/skbuff.c:584
 __alloc_skb+0x138/0x2c0 net/core/skbuff.c:653
 alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1316 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:748 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:805 [inline]
 nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x253/0xa90 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:851
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2657 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa60/0x1600 kernel/workqueue.c:2734
 worker_thread+0xa5e/0xfe0 kernel/workqueue.c:2815
 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
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1182 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7d7/0x8f0 mm/page_alloc.c:2366
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2459
 napi_frag_unref include/linux/skbuff.h:3539 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x3ca/0x7f0 net/core/skbuff.c:982
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1054 [inline]
 __kfree_skb+0x57/0x70 net/core/skbuff.c:1068
 tcp_clean_rtx_queue net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:3444 [inline]
 tcp_ack+0x221a/0x6630 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:4004
 tcp_rcv_established+0x800/0x1d70 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6170
 tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x6d3/0xba0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1735
 tcp_v4_rcv+0x2358/0x2a60 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:2167
 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x20a/0x3f0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:205
 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x2c3/0x510 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:233
 NF_HOOK+0x32d/0x3b0 include/linux/netfilter.h:304
 dst_input include/net/dst.h:477 [inline]
 ip_sublist_rcv_finish net/ipv4/ip_input.c:580 [inline]
 ip_list_rcv_finish net/ipv4/ip_input.c:631 [inline]
 ip_sublist_rcv+0xa36/0xd60 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:639
 ip_list_rcv+0x3ed/0x440 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:674
 __netif_receive_skb_list_ptype net/core/dev.c:5689 [inline]
 __netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x582/0x770 net/core/dev.c:5737
 __netif_receive_skb_list net/core/dev.c:5789 [inline]
 netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x943/0xca0 net/core/dev.c:5880
 gro_normal_list include/net/gro.h:451 [inline]
 napi_complete_done+0x329/0x820 net/core/dev.c:6220

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff8880676da200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880676da280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8880676da300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                    ^
 ffff8880676da380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff8880676da400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (5):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/17 14:46 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 905244d6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in snd_usb_midi_v2_free
2026/08/17 09:21 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 746171ee .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in snd_usb_midi_v2_free
2026/08/12 06:06 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c f8d35649 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in snd_usb_midi_v2_free
2026/08/11 17:07 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 71790083 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in snd_usb_midi_v2_free
2026/08/10 22:52 linux-6.6.y d27334b2888c 508909ea .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in snd_usb_midi_v2_free
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.