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KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/08 07:19
Reported-by: syzbot+4c39241af3f107d1028a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d14h, last: 5d14h
Similar bugs (6)
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 619d 619d 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 510d 510d 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 105d 105d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/06/08 18:09
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources media 19 1 2217d 2216d 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 C error error 461 4d14h 680d 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 150d 150d 0/2 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/24 08:01

Sample crash report:
em28xx 4-1:0.132: Closing input extension
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in media_device_unregister+0x13d/0x3f0 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:809
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88806120c210 by task kworker/0:1/15106

CPU: 0 PID: 15106 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x24e lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:316 [inline]
 print_report+0xa8/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:420
 kasan_report+0x10b/0x140 mm/kasan/report.c:524
 media_device_unregister+0x13d/0x3f0 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:809
 em28xx_unregister_media_device drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3459 [inline]
 em28xx_release_resources+0xaa/0x240 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3480
 em28xx_usb_disconnect+0x196/0x2e0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:4149
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1ee/0x860 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:550 [inline]
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1280 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x522/0x850 drivers/base/dd.c:1306
 bus_remove_device+0x2e2/0x400 drivers/base/bus.c:531
 device_del+0x6af/0xaf0 drivers/base/core.c:3900
 usb_disable_device+0x3e2/0x890 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1472
 usb_disconnect+0x348/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2314
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5361 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5657 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5817 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1e50/0x5560 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5899
 process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 14863:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:375 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x8e/0xa0 mm/kasan/common.c:384
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0x107/0x2e70 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2538
 em28xx_init_extension+0x118/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1116
 process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Freed by task 14863:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:53
 kasan_save_free_info+0x2d/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:516
 ____kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1e0 mm/kasan/common.c:237
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1729 [inline]
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x131/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1755
 slab_free mm/slub.c:3687 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_free+0xb6/0x1f0 mm/slub.c:3700
 em28xx_free_v4l2 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2118 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0x166c/0x2e70 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2907
 em28xx_init_extension+0x118/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1116
 process_one_work+0x8a2/0x1160 kernel/workqueue.c:2292
 worker_thread+0xaa2/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2439
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88806120c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 528 bytes inside of
 8192-byte region [ffff88806120c000, ffff88806120e000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001848200 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x61208
head:ffffea0001848200 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 ffff888017442280
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 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 0x1d20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 16337, tgid 16337 (syz-executor), ts 1340263398759, free_ts 1340231880857
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:31 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x173/0x1a0 mm/page_alloc.c:2559
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2566 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1a1e/0x1ab0 mm/page_alloc.c:4357
 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x4f0 mm/page_alloc.c:5657
 alloc_slab_page+0x5d/0x160 mm/slub.c:1799
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1944 [inline]
 new_slab+0x87/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:1997
 ___slab_alloc+0xbc6/0x1240 mm/slub.c:3154
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3240 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3325 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1a0/0x260 mm/slub.c:3398
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:935 [inline]
 __kmalloc_node+0xa0/0x240 mm/slab_common.c:943
 kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:589 [inline]
 kvmalloc_node+0x6c/0x180 mm/util.c:581
 kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:716 [inline]
 kvmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:734 [inline]
 __ptr_ring_init_queue_alloc include/linux/ptr_ring.h:471 [inline]
 ptr_ring_init include/linux/ptr_ring.h:489 [inline]
 wg_packet_queue_init+0x8f/0x2f0 drivers/net/wireguard/queueing.c:32
 wg_newlink+0x3fd/0x730 drivers/net/wireguard/device.c:357
 rtnl_newlink_create net/core/rtnetlink.c:3428 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3648 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x151e/0x20a0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3661
 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x87c/0xfc0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6158
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x1fb/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2511
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x74d/0x8d0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8ad/0xbd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1872
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1486 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1536 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x8b4/0x9a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3413
 free_unref_page+0x2e/0x3f0 mm/page_alloc.c:3508
 free_slab mm/slub.c:2036 [inline]
 discard_slab mm/slub.c:2042 [inline]
 __unfreeze_partials+0x1a5/0x200 mm/slub.c:2591
 put_cpu_partial+0x17c/0x250 mm/slub.c:2667
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:168 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x76/0xe0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:187
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x144/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:294
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x1e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:306
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:201 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4b/0x480 mm/slab.h:737
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3359 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3367 [inline]
 __kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3374 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x123/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:3383
 getname_flags+0xb7/0x500 fs/namei.c:139
 getname fs/namei.c:218 [inline]
 __do_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4525 [inline]
 __se_sys_symlinkat fs/namei.c:4522 [inline]
 __x64_sys_symlinkat+0x78/0xa0 fs/namei.c:4522
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88806120c100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88806120c180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88806120c200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff88806120c280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88806120c300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/08 07:18 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e cc095639 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.