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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2025/09/24 05:35
Subsystems: sound
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Reported-by: syzbot+ce952c05d40571083fd6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 21d, last: 13d
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[syzbot] [sound?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer (2) 0 (1) 2025/09/24 05:35
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer sound 19 4 141d 156d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/08/21 21:22

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in snd_usbmidi_error_timer+0x148/0x660 sound/usb/midi.c:355
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805d511c10 by task ktimers/1/29

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 29 Comm: ktimers/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 snd_usbmidi_error_timer+0x148/0x660 sound/usb/midi.c:355
 call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x5f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1747
 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1798 [inline]
 __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2372 [inline]
 __run_timer_base+0x648/0x970 kernel/time/timer.c:2384
 run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2393 [inline]
 run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x180 kernel/time/timer.c:2403
 handle_softirqs+0x22c/0x710 kernel/softirq.c:579
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:613 [inline]
 run_ktimerd+0xcf/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:1043
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x542/0xa60 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x436/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5950:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:388 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:405
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1a8/0x320 mm/slub.c:4407
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 snd_usbmidi_in_endpoint_create+0x7e/0xa30 sound/usb/midi.c:1342
 snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints_midiman sound/usb/midi.c:2363 [inline]
 __snd_usbmidi_create+0x2236/0x2a80 sound/usb/midi.c:2646
 snd_usb_midi_v2_create+0x43e0/0x4650 sound/usb/midi2.c:1178
 usb_audio_probe+0xb78/0x1e10 sound/usb/card.c:976
 usb_probe_interface+0x665/0xc30 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26a/0x9e0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x2f0 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ce/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x251/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:462
 __device_attach+0x2bb/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 bus_probe_device+0x188/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:537
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb50 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x20e0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2210
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x390 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26a/0x9e0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x2f0 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ce/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x251/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:462
 __device_attach+0x2bb/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 bus_probe_device+0x188/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:537
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb50 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_new_device+0xa29/0x16e0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2694
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5566 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5706 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5870 [inline]
 hub_event+0x2958/0x4a20 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5952
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x436/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 5950:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:243 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5b/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:275
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2422 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4695 [inline]
 kfree+0x195/0x550 mm/slub.c:4894
 snd_usbmidi_free sound/usb/midi.c:1530 [inline]
 snd_usbmidi_rawmidi_free+0xae/0x150 sound/usb/midi.c:1591
 snd_rawmidi_free+0x3bf/0x410 sound/core/rawmidi.c:1934
 snd_rawmidi_dev_free+0x38/0x50 sound/core/rawmidi.c:1945
 __snd_device_free+0x1d2/0x2e0 sound/core/device.c:76
 snd_device_free_all+0xcf/0x180 sound/core/device.c:233
 snd_card_do_free sound/core/init.c:587 [inline]
 release_card_device+0x75/0x1b0 sound/core/init.c:153
 device_release+0x9c/0x1c0 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+0x22b/0x480 lib/kobject.c:737
 snd_card_free_when_closed sound/core/init.c:618 [inline]
 snd_card_free+0x110/0x190 sound/core/init.c:650
 usb_audio_probe+0x193f/0x1e10 sound/usb/card.c:1034
 usb_probe_interface+0x665/0xc30 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26a/0x9e0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x2f0 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ce/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x251/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:462
 __device_attach+0x2bb/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 bus_probe_device+0x188/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:537
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb50 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x20e0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2210
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x390 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26a/0x9e0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x2f0 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ce/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x251/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:462
 __device_attach+0x2bb/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 bus_probe_device+0x188/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:537
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb50 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_new_device+0xa29/0x16e0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2694
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5566 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5706 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5870 [inline]
 hub_event+0x2958/0x4a20 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5952
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x436/0x7d0 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805d511c00
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
The buggy address is located 16 bytes inside of
 freed 512-byte region [ffff88805d511c00, ffff88805d511e00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5d510
head: order:2 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff888019841c80 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff888019841c80 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000002 ffffea0001754401 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000004
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5836, tgid 5836 (syz-executor), ts 183325773087, free_ts 183306171490
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2119/0x21b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xd1/0x380 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2492 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x8a/0x370 mm/slub.c:2660
 new_slab mm/slub.c:2714 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0x8d1/0xdc0 mm/slub.c:3901
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3992 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4067 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4228 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0xe6/0x320 mm/slub.c:4402
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 kernfs_fop_open+0x3f0/0xdd0 fs/kernfs/file.c:641
 do_dentry_open+0x9ae/0x1350 fs/open.c:965
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1095
 do_open fs/namei.c:3887 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2ef1/0x3840 fs/namei.c:4046
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4073
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1435
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1450 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1466 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1461 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1461
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 5836 tgid 5836 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1395 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xb59/0xce0 mm/page_alloc.c:2895
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2758 [inline]
 __put_partials+0x159/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:3223
 __slab_free+0x2b3/0x390 mm/slub.c:4565
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x140 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x148/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x22/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:340
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:250 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4191 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4240 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x143/0x310 mm/slub.c:4247
 getname_flags+0xb8/0x540 fs/namei.c:146
 getname include/linux/fs.h:2919 [inline]
 __do_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4696 [inline]
 __se_sys_unlink fs/namei.c:4694 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unlink+0x3a/0x50 fs/namei.c:4694
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805d511b00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88805d511b80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>ffff88805d511c00: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88805d511c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88805d511d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (12):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/09/28 19:13 upstream 8f9736633f8c 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/28 04:32 upstream 51a24b7deaae 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/27 16:24 upstream fec734e8d564 001c9061 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/25 23:23 upstream bf40f4b87761 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/24 18:44 upstream cec1e6e5d1ab 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/23 23:41 upstream cec1e6e5d1ab 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/23 07:17 upstream cec1e6e5d1ab 0ac7291c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/21 02:18 upstream 3b08f56fbbb9 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/20 11:15 upstream cd89d487374c 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/20 07:16 upstream cd89d487374c 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/20 05:24 upstream e8442d5b7bc6 67c37560 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
2025/09/23 20:31 upstream cec1e6e5d1ab 0abd0691 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.