KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/16 09:29
Reported-by: syzbot+1bb729153e38f7a7b30f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d00h, last: 6d00h
Similar bugs (7)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources 19 1 720d 720d 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 611d 611d 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 205d 205d 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 106d 106d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/09/16 07:19
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources media 19 1 2317d 2317d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/15 20:41
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources prio:high media 19 syz, C error error 472 43d 781d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/08/02 07:49
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources 19 1 251d 251d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/24 08:01

Sample crash report:
em28xx 6-1:1.0: Closing input extension
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in media_device_unregister+0x13b/0x3f0 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:823
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88805e378210 by task kworker/1:1/23

CPU: 1 PID: 23 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 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
 media_device_unregister+0x13b/0x3f0 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:823
 em28xx_unregister_media_device drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3465 [inline]
 em28xx_release_resources+0xaa/0x240 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3486
 em28xx_usb_disconnect+0x196/0x2e0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:4153
 usb_unbind_interface+0x203/0x870 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1249 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x487/0x710 drivers/base/dd.c:1282
 bus_remove_device+0x2dd/0x400 drivers/base/bus.c:531
 device_del+0x63f/0xa80 drivers/base/core.c:3615
 usb_disable_device+0x3e7/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1472
 usb_disconnect+0x33c/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2292
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5346 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5642 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5804 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1d64/0x5260 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5886
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2373 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xd93/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2459
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea000178de00 refcount:0 mapcount:-128 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x2 pfn:0x5e378
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001a03408 ffffea0001a30b08 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000002 0000000000000002 00000000ffffff7f 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x140dc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), pid 4795, ts 366033158151, free_ts 366553634655
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x24f6/0x2670 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5501
 kmalloc_order+0x40/0x150 mm/slab_common.c:986
 kmalloc_order_trace+0x14/0xf0 mm/slab_common.c:1002
 kmalloc_large include/linux/slab.h:536 [inline]
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0xd5/0x2cd0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2548
 em28xx_init_extension+0x118/0x1c0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1126
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2373 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xe01/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2462
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
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+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_nonslab_page+0xde/0x150 mm/slub.c:3540
 em28xx_free_v4l2 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2128 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0x155a/0x2cd0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2917
 em28xx_init_extension+0x118/0x1c0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1126
 process_one_work+0x867/0xff0 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2373 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xe01/0x12a0 kernel/workqueue.c:2462
 kthread+0x42e/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88805e378100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88805e378180: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88805e378200: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                         ^
 ffff88805e378280: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88805e378300: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/16 09:29 linux-5.15.y 0248c33e835e 12a0a44a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.