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KASAN: use-after-free Read in dummy_timer

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/05/26 00:26
Reported-by: syzbot+a6647823574145ef4dea@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 94d, last: 3d11h
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream general protection fault in dummy_timer (2) usb 2 syz 40 12d 276d 0/29 upstream: reported syz repro on 2024/11/24 05:03
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in dummy_timer origin:upstream 19 C 2 12d 56d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2025/07/02 21:23
upstream general protection fault in dummy_timer usb 2 2 650d 696d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/02/14 16:35

Sample crash report:
smsusb:smsusb_onresponse: error, urb status -71, 0 bytes
smsusb:smsusb_onresponse: error, urb status -71, 0 bytes
smsusb:smsusb_onresponse: error, urb status -71, 0 bytes
smsusb:smsusb_onresponse: error, urb status -71, 0 bytes
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dummy_timer+0x263e/0x2e10 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1843
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88807e4065d4 by task ksoftirqd/1/20

CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 5.15.189-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x168/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 dummy_timer+0x263e/0x2e10 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1843
 call_timer_fn+0x16c/0x530 kernel/time/timer.c:1451
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1496 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x525/0x7c0 kernel/time/timer.c:1767
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1780
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 run_ksoftirqd+0x98/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:943
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x4f6/0x970 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5295:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:735 [inline]
 smsusb_init_device drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:397 [inline]
 smsusb_probe+0x818/0x1d10 drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:569
 usb_probe_interface+0x5a0/0xaf0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x284/0xc80 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:755
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:785
 __device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:907
 bus_for_each_drv+0x175/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
 __device_attach+0x29b/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:979
 bus_probe_device+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
 device_add+0xa00/0xfb0 drivers/base/core.c:3412
 usb_set_configuration+0x1991/0x1fd0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2165
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x89/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x139/0x270 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x284/0xc80 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:755
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:785
 __device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:907
 bus_for_each_drv+0x175/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
 __device_attach+0x29b/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:979
 bus_probe_device+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
 device_add+0xa00/0xfb0 drivers/base/core.c:3412
 usb_new_device+0xd53/0x1640 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2604
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5467 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5607 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5753 [inline]
 hub_event+0x295c/0x4fa0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5835
 process_one_work+0x863/0x1000 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Freed by task 5295:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
 kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
 ____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1705 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1731
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3499 [inline]
 kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4559
 smsusb_term_device+0x1ac/0x220 drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:352
 smsusb_init_device drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:491 [inline]
 smsusb_probe+0x16aa/0x1d10 drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:569
 usb_probe_interface+0x5a0/0xaf0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x284/0xc80 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:755
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:785
 __device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:907
 bus_for_each_drv+0x175/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
 __device_attach+0x29b/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:979
 bus_probe_device+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
 device_add+0xa00/0xfb0 drivers/base/core.c:3412
 usb_set_configuration+0x1991/0x1fd0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2165
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x89/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
 usb_probe_device+0x139/0x270 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x284/0xc80 drivers/base/dd.c:595
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:755
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:785
 __device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:907
 bus_for_each_drv+0x175/0x200 drivers/base/bus.c:429
 __device_attach+0x29b/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:979
 bus_probe_device+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
 device_add+0xa00/0xfb0 drivers/base/core.c:3412
 usb_new_device+0xd53/0x1640 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2604
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5467 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5607 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5753 [inline]
 hub_event+0x295c/0x4fa0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5835
 process_one_work+0x863/0x1000 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa8/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 insert_work+0x54/0x3d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1366
 __queue_work+0x9c5/0xd50 kernel/workqueue.c:1532
 queue_work_on+0x11d/0x1d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1559
 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x35f/0x520 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1674
 dummy_timer+0x827/0x2e10 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1987
 call_timer_fn+0x16c/0x530 kernel/time/timer.c:1451
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1496 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x525/0x7c0 kernel/time/timer.c:1767
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1780
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 run_ksoftirqd+0x98/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:943
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x4f6/0x970 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Second to last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
 insert_work+0x54/0x3d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1366
 __queue_work+0x9c5/0xd50 kernel/workqueue.c:1532
 queue_work_on+0x11d/0x1d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1559
 __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x35f/0x520 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1674
 dummy_timer+0x827/0x2e10 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1987
 call_timer_fn+0x16c/0x530 kernel/time/timer.c:1451
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1496 [inline]
 __run_timers+0x525/0x7c0 kernel/time/timer.c:1767
 run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1780
 handle_softirqs+0x328/0x820 kernel/softirq.c:576
 run_ksoftirqd+0x98/0xf0 kernel/softirq.c:943
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x4f6/0x970 kernel/smpboot.c:164
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807e406000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 1492 bytes inside of
 4096-byte region [ffff88807e406000, ffff88807e407000)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001f90000 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7e400
head:ffffea0001f90000 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 0000000100000001 ffff888016842140
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 0x1d2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 4921, ts 127242053904, free_ts 127228876816
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1b77/0x1c60 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1e1/0x470 mm/page_alloc.c:5474
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1775 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1912 [inline]
 new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1975
 ___slab_alloc+0x81e/0xdf0 mm/slub.c:3008
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3095 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3186 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3228 [inline]
 __kmalloc+0x1cd/0x330 mm/slub.c:4403
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:609 [inline]
 tomoyo_realpath_from_path+0x118/0x610 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:254
 tomoyo_get_realpath security/tomoyo/file.c:151 [inline]
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x1cd/0x510 security/tomoyo/file.c:822
 security_inode_getattr+0xcf/0x120 security/security.c:1348
 vfs_getattr+0x26/0x3a0 fs/stat.c:157
 vfs_fstat fs/stat.c:182 [inline]
 __do_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:421 [inline]
 __se_sys_newfstat fs/stat.c:418 [inline]
 __x64_sys_newfstat+0x104/0x1d0 fs/stat.c:418
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x94/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2015 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2021 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1a5/0x200 mm/slub.c:2507
 put_cpu_partial+0x12d/0x190 mm/slub.c:2587
 qlist_free_all+0x35/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x150/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:444
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3220 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x12d/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:3256
 __alloc_skb+0xf4/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:415
 alloc_skb_fclone include/linux/skbuff.h:1212 [inline]
 sk_stream_alloc_skb+0x1fa/0xa60 net/ipv4/tcp.c:889
 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0xc3e/0x3590 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1314
 tcp_sendmsg+0x2b/0x40 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1457
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:704 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:716 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x29c/0x380 net/socket.c:1079
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2172 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:507 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x712/0xd00 fs/read_write.c:594
 ksys_write+0x14d/0x250 fs/read_write.c:647

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807e406480: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807e406500: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807e406580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff88807e406600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807e406680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/24 15:39 linux-5.15.y c79648372d02 bf27483f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in dummy_timer
2025/05/26 00:26 linux-5.15.y 98f47d0e9b8c 2d4582d0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in dummy_timer
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.