KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __vb2_queue_cancel

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Reported-by: syzbot+179796e91319a073bbd3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 126d, last: 126d
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			[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in __vb2_queue_cancel
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Sample crash report:

	
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __vb2_queue_cancel+0xd56/0xdb0 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2255
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88803ad98f48 by task v4l_id/15134

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 15134 Comm: v4l_id Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xba/0x230 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __vb2_queue_cancel+0xd56/0xdb0 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2255
 vb2_core_queue_release+0x2f/0x150 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:2677
 vb2_queue_release drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:956 [inline]
 _vb2_fop_release drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:1159 [inline]
 vb2_fop_release+0x16e/0x200 drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c:1173
 v4l2_release+0x250/0x370 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:471
 __fput+0x44f/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:469
 fput_close_sync+0x11f/0x240 fs/file_table.c:574
 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1509 [inline]
 __se_sys_close fs/open.c:1494 [inline]
 __x64_sys_close+0x7e/0x110 fs/open.c:1494
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f4ccaca7407
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:00007ffc33054410 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4ccb48a880 RCX: 00007f4ccaca7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f4ccb48a6e8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000013
R13: 00007ffc33054640 R14: 00007f4ccb5f1000 R15: 0000563beee3a4d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5826:
 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:5380
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 hackrf_probe+0xe6/0x13a0 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:1351
 usb_probe_interface+0x668/0xc90 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:721
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:863
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:893
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1021
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1093
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1148
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:613
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb70 drivers/base/core.c:3691
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x2110 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2266
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:721
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:863
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:893
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1021
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1093
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1148
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:613
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb70 drivers/base/core.c:3691
 usb_new_device+0xa08/0x16f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x2a1c/0x4f30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3276 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb6e/0x18c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3359
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3440
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 5826:
 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:2685 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6165 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c1/0x630 mm/slub.c:6483
 hackrf_probe+0xdb4/0x13a0 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:1523
 usb_probe_interface+0x668/0xc90 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:721
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:863
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:893
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1021
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1093
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1148
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:613
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb70 drivers/base/core.c:3691
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x2110 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2266
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x267/0xaf0 drivers/base/dd.c:721
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:863
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:893
 __device_attach_driver+0x279/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:1021
 bus_for_each_drv+0x258/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c5/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1093
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1148
 bus_probe_device+0x12a/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:613
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb70 drivers/base/core.c:3691
 usb_new_device+0xa08/0x16f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2695
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5567 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x2a1c/0x4f30 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3276 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xb6e/0x18c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3359
 worker_thread+0xa53/0xfc0 kernel/workqueue.c:3440
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x51e/0xb90 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 ffff88803ad98000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 3912 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff88803ad98000, ffff88803ad9a000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x3ad98
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fea6280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fea6280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0000eb6601 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 15002, tgid 15001 (syz.1.15875), ts 869736062981, free_ts 868896913803
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x231/0x280 mm/page_alloc.c:1889
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1897 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24dc/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3962
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x18d/0x380 mm/page_alloc.c:5250
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3292 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x77/0x660 mm/slub.c:3481
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3539 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x331/0x3c0 mm/slub.c:7175
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2812 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x2e6/0x730 mm/slub.c:4615
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4717 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4851 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5259 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x474/0x760 mm/slub.c:5272
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 ops_init+0x7b/0x5c0 net/core/net_namespace.c:127
 setup_net+0x118/0x340 net/core/net_namespace.c:446
 copy_net_ns+0x50e/0x730 net/core/net_namespace.c:581
 create_new_namespaces+0x3e7/0x6a0 kernel/nsproxy.c:130
 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x11a/0x160 kernel/nsproxy.c:226
 ksys_unshare+0x51d/0x930 kernel/fork.c:3173
 __do_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3244 [inline]
 __se_sys_unshare kernel/fork.c:3242 [inline]
 __x64_sys_unshare+0x38/0x50 kernel/fork.c:3242
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 14961 tgid 14961 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xc2b/0xdb0 mm/page_alloc.c:2978
 __slab_free+0x263/0x2b0 mm/slub.c:5573
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 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:4538 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4866 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5259 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x316/0x760 mm/slub.c:5272
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode2 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:45 [inline]
 tomoyo_encode+0x28b/0x550 security/tomoyo/realpath.c:80
 tomoyo_path_perm+0x318/0x560 security/tomoyo/file.c:836
 tomoyo_path_symlink+0xab/0xf0 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:212
 security_path_symlink+0x16f/0x360 security/security.c:1477
 filename_symlinkat+0x134/0x410 fs/namei.c:5638
 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:5660 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlinkat+0x4e/0x2b0 fs/namei.c:5655
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x14d/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88803ad98e00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803ad98e80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88803ad98f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                              ^
 ffff88803ad98f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803ad99000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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