KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources

Status: auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/24 08:01
Reported-by: syzbot+6fbf44b3f140e9330efa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 206d, last: 206d
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources prio:high media 19 syz, C error error 470 3d07h 736d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/08/02 07:49
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources 19 1 675d 675d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/10 04:18
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources 19 1 566d 566d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/29 03:56
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources (2) 19 1 160d 160d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/08 18:09
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources (2) 19 1 61d 61d 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/06/08 07:19

Sample crash report:
em28xx 1-1:0.132: Closing input extension
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in media_device_unregister+0x141/0x400 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:808
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807cb64210 by task kworker/0:0/8

CPU: 0 PID: 8 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x230 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
 print_report+0xac/0x220 mm/kasan/report.c:468
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:581
 media_device_unregister+0x141/0x400 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:808
 em28xx_unregister_media_device drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3459 [inline]
 em28xx_release_resources+0xac/0x240 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3480
 em28xx_usb_disconnect+0x19a/0x2f0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:4149
 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+0x50b/0x900 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+0x1cef/0x49c0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5915
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 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
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5767:
 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]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0x10b/0x2e70 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2532
 em28xx_init_extension+0x11c/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1116
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 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 5767:
 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+0x130/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:1837
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3830 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xba/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3843
 em28xx_free_v4l2 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2118 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0x1670/0x2e70 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2901
 em28xx_init_extension+0x11c/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1116
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:2634 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa45/0x15b0 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 ffff88807cb64000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 528 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff88807cb64000, ffff88807cb66000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001f2d800 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7cb60
head:ffffea0001f2d800 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 ffff888017842280 ffffea00017d3e00 dead000000000002
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 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 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5422, tgid 5422 (S40network), ts 36818795773, free_ts 36789466190
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1cd/0x210 mm/page_alloc.c:1554
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1561 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x195c/0x19f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3191
 __alloc_pages+0x1e3/0x460 mm/page_alloc.c:4457
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x170 mm/slub.c:1881
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:2028 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2e0 mm/slub.c:2081
 ___slab_alloc+0xc6d/0x1300 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+0x1a2/0x260 mm/slub.c:3534
 kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 tomoyo_print_bprm security/tomoyo/audit.c:26 [inline]
 tomoyo_init_log+0x1104/0x1f10 security/tomoyo/audit.c:264
 tomoyo_supervisor+0x32d/0x1080 security/tomoyo/common.c:2089
 tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:36 [inline]
 tomoyo_env_perm+0x14a/0x1e0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:63
 tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:672 [inline]
 tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x1594/0x1a60 security/tomoyo/domain.c:881
 tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x116/0x170 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:101
 security_bprm_check+0x62/0xa0 security/security.c:1103
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1763 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1817 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0xa51/0x16f0 fs/exec.c:1892
 do_execveat_common+0x51b/0x6c0 fs/exec.c:1998
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1154 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x7ce/0x8e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2336
 free_unref_page+0x32/0x2e0 mm/page_alloc.c:2429
 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+0x31d/0x410 mm/slub.c:3700
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:166 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x75/0xe0 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/0x4d0 mm/slab.h:767
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3495 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x13e/0x260 mm/slub.c:3534
 kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1098
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:721 [inline]
 tomoyo_print_bprm security/tomoyo/audit.c:26 [inline]
 tomoyo_init_log+0x1104/0x1f10 security/tomoyo/audit.c:264
 tomoyo_supervisor+0x32d/0x1080 security/tomoyo/common.c:2089
 tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:36 [inline]
 tomoyo_env_perm+0x14a/0x1e0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:63
 tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:672 [inline]
 tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x1594/0x1a60 security/tomoyo/domain.c:881
 tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x116/0x170 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:101

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807cb64100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807cb64180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88807cb64200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88807cb64280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88807cb64300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/01/14 08:00 linux-6.6.y c596736dadab d6526ea3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.