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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/01/22 08:53
Subsystems: media
Labels: prio:high
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Reported-by: syzbot+07b93bb3189febcab189@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 153d, last: 2d18h
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b4d1c056-fa34-4195-b035-c21d0874d30a assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device 2026/05/24 10:30 2026/05/24 10:30 2026/05/24 11:19 c69befb30ac10e158cc9d1557b508ee3f0eca1de

			
		
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[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device 0 (2) 2026/06/03 00:44
[PATCH v2] media: em28xx: fix use-after-free in em28xx_unregister_media_device() 4 (4) 2026/05/19 11:08
[PATCH] media: em28xx: fix use-after-free in em28xx_unregister_media_device() 1 (1) 2026/04/13 14:44

Sample crash report:
em28xx 5-1:0.132: Closing input extension
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in media_device_unregister drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:833 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in media_device_unregister+0x59d/0x610 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:811
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888031920210 by task kworker/3:1/39

CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 39 Comm: kworker/3:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1d0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 media_device_unregister drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:833 [inline]
 media_device_unregister+0x59d/0x610 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:811
 em28xx_unregister_media_device+0x4e/0xe0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3714
 em28xx_release_resources+0x79/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3735
 em28xx_usb_disconnect.cold+0x17d/0x253 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:4427
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1dd/0x9e0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:621 [inline]
 device_remove+0x12a/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:613
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1352 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x44e/0x620 drivers/base/dd.c:1375
 bus_remove_device+0x2bc/0x560 drivers/base/bus.c:657
 device_del+0x376/0x9b0 drivers/base/core.c:3895
 usb_disable_device+0x367/0x810 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1478
 usb_disconnect+0x2e2/0x9a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2345
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5407 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1d0c/0x4af0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6029:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init.cold+0x94/0x3a40 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2707
 em28xx_init_extension+0x13a/0x200 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1248
 request_module_async+0x61/0x80 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3660
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 6029:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2689 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6251 [inline]
 kfree+0x223/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6566
 kref_put.isra.0+0x53/0x75 include/linux/kref.h:65
 em28xx_v4l2_init.cold+0x280/0x3a40 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:3078
 em28xx_init_extension+0x13a/0x200 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1248
 request_module_async+0x61/0x80 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3660
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 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 ffff888031920000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 528 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff888031920000, ffff888031922000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x31920
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 ffff88801b843180 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801b843180 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 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 0xd28c0(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5825, tgid 5825 (syz-executor), ts 84598166672, free_ts 20468208603
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1853
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1861 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x11a6/0x3410 mm/page_alloc.c:3941
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x27c/0x2bc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5221
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3467 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa6/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:3525
 refill_objects+0x277/0x420 mm/slub.c:7272
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x375/0x650 mm/slub.c:4652
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4750 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4884 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5295 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x7da/0xa00 mm/slub.c:6833
 kvmalloc_array_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1216 [inline]
 __ptr_ring_init_queue_alloc_noprof include/linux/ptr_ring.h:481 [inline]
 ptr_ring_init_noprof include/linux/ptr_ring.h:499 [inline]
 wg_packet_queue_init+0x9a/0x360 drivers/net/wireguard/queueing.c:32
 wg_newlink+0x2fa/0x7a0 drivers/net/wireguard/device.c:352
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3864 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3995 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x1499/0x2380 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4110
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6997
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2555
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1899
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 __sys_sendto+0x468/0x4b0 net/socket.c:2265
 __do_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2272 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendto net/socket.c:2268 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendto+0xe0/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2268
page last free pid 53 tgid 53 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1397 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x794/0x10a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2938
 vfree mm/vmalloc.c:3472 [inline]
 vfree+0x15f/0x8d0 mm/vmalloc.c:3436
 delayed_vfree_work+0x56/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3392
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888031920100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888031920180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888031920200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff888031920280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888031920300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (30):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/03 00:44 upstream ba3e43a9e601 3c0d2131 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/06/18 07:22 upstream e771677c937d b62b3ded .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/06/07 09:45 upstream 979c294509f9 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/06/06 16:16 upstream c10130c234c8 cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/06/04 04:08 upstream ba3e43a9e601 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/06/01 00:00 upstream 174914ea5513 6b4a8443 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/22 18:53 upstream 45255ea1ca09 e16cf9f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/16 15:58 upstream 6916d5703ddf a15a64a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/16 15:36 upstream 6916d5703ddf a15a64a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/14 06:57 upstream e1914add2799 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/12 16:44 upstream 50897c955902 d5b1a17d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/05 09:07 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/05 09:03 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/05 08:35 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/24 20:14 upstream dd6c438c3e64 1c2b9291 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/22 02:03 upstream 4ee64205ffaa 0b6ab7ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/19 11:34 upstream faeab166167f 303e2802 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/08 09:59 upstream 3036cd0d3328 2c961e87 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/03 06:22 upstream d8a9a4b11a13 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/03/29 18:18 upstream cbfffcca2bf0 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/02/20 21:46 upstream 8bf22c33e7a1 741f5161 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/02/20 21:39 upstream 8bf22c33e7a1 741f5161 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/02/10 11:03 upstream 8a5203c630c6 4ab09a02 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/22 19:54 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 22d91cef94b5 5f091fcc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/01 19:02 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 25bd55f46032 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/15 04:29 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 87117347a0e7 e2e976a8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/03/22 15:29 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 84db3719d273 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/01/30 17:01 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 0a06917432a7 ae7dc18c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/01/21 07:33 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 5ac87cd859ec 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/01/18 05:05 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing fa3bb5011f33 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.