KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2026/08/02 00:53
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:high actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+832ce9fa3face1b7d44d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: 402a9d6aab7a ALSA: caiaq: Decoupling ep1_in_urb in caiaq dev
Patched on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu-upstream ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce], missing on: [ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 52d, last: 7d11h
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76515dad repro-c Reproduced: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb 2026/08/07 14:02 2026/08/07 22:10 2026/08/07 23:53 e4ef95d6
a259fccd moderation Actionable: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb 2026/08/02 00:00 2026/08/02 00:00 2026/08/02 00:52 e611ffe1
7b65f6b4 assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ✅ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ❌ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb 2026/07/30 00:00 2026/07/30 00:00 2026/07/30 00:40 2377cd3d
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[PATCH] ALSA: caiaq: Decoupling ep1_in_urb in caiaq dev 9 (9) 2026/09/06 08:01
[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb 6 (10) 2026/09/03 14:37
[PATCH] media: hackrf: fix use-after-free in hackrf_alloc_urbs() error path 1 (1) 2026/08/04 04:48
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (3)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/03 09:24 29m michal.pecio@gmail.com patch upstream OK job log log
2026/09/03 03:21 30m eadavis@sina.com patch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 786262be6048 OK job log log
2026/08/08 08:25 23m nogikh@google.com upstream error
▶ ▼ Cause bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/09/02 05:11 0m bisect upstream error

Sample crash report:
usb 1-1: received EP1 urb->status = -2
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in usb_free_urb+0x24/0x120 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:96
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88803cee1050 by task ktimers/1/29

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 29 Comm: ktimers/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
 usb_free_urb+0x24/0x120 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:96
 dummy_timer+0xaac/0x4d50 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2019
 __run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2067 [inline]
 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x3eb/0xaf0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2124
 hrtimer_run_softirq+0x1e1/0x2e0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2141
 handle_softirqs+0x1da/0x6d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
 run_ktimerd+0x6a/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:1183
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x565/0xa70 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 36:
 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]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5414 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x41d/0x790 mm/slub.c:5439
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 snd_card_new+0x7b/0x110 sound/core/init.c:184
 create_card sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:429 [inline]
 snd_probe+0x236/0x1af0 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:544
 usb_probe_interface+0x788/0xe50 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:399
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x25b/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c7/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x12d/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3776
 usb_set_configuration+0x1ad8/0x2180 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c3/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x25b/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c7/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x12d/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3776
 usb_new_device+0x99a/0x1680 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2708
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5580 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5720 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5884 [inline]
 hub_event+0x28cf/0x4cf0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5966
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 36:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 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:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
 kfree+0x1c5/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6792
 device_release+0xc4/0x1f0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
 kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
 kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 kobject_put+0x222/0x550 lib/kobject.c:737
 snd_card_free_when_closed sound/core/init.c:630 [inline]
 snd_card_free+0x138/0x1d0 sound/core/init.c:662
 snd_probe+0x162b/0x1af0 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:553
 usb_probe_interface+0x788/0xe50 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:399
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x25b/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c7/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x12d/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3776
 usb_set_configuration+0x1ad8/0x2180 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c3/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x25b/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x2c7/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x12d/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3776
 usb_new_device+0x99a/0x1680 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2708
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5580 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5720 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5884 [inline]
 hub_event+0x28cf/0x4cf0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5966
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
 worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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 ffff88803cee0000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 4176 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff88803cee0000, ffff88803cee2000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x3cee0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff00280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff00280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 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 0xd2000(__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5616, tgid 5616 (syz-executor411), ts 97458631629
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x2591/0x2600 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x230/0x5c0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
 new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
 refill_objects+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7410
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x339/0x690 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x46f/0x680 mm/slub.c:5559
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 usb_device_dump+0xd0/0x2200 drivers/usb/core/devices.c:412
 usb_device_read+0x1b4/0x2c0 drivers/usb/core/devices.c:530
 full_proxy_read+0x127/0x1f0 fs/debugfs/file.c:379
 vfs_read+0x219/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:572
 ksys_read+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:716
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 5598 tgid 5598 ts 96447293579 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0xf8e/0x1070 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
 __slab_free+0x250/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:5815
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 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:4683 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x353/0x680 mm/slub.c:5559
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 kernfs_fop_open+0x3a7/0xcf0 fs/kernfs/file.c:634
 do_dentry_open+0x849/0x1420 fs/open.c:996
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1101
 do_open fs/namei.c:4837 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1448/0x1d60 fs/namei.c:5000
 do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5029
 do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1417
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1434
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88803cee0f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803cee0f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88803cee1000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                 ^
 ffff88803cee1080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803cee1100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (10):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/02 05:08 upstream 786262be6048 587f6b29 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/09/11 11:06 upstream 08df884136f1 1fe56c0a .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/09/05 09:19 upstream 654ae5d73c05 4f7b22a0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/09/02 01:39 upstream 786262be6048 587f6b29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/09/02 01:38 upstream 786262be6048 587f6b29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/09/01 23:48 upstream 786262be6048 587f6b29 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/08/24 18:21 upstream 0a0d1d55dad5 23caa175 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/08/17 14:49 upstream 8d3ae59288f1 1e72964b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/07/28 03:03 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
2026/07/28 03:03 upstream 62cc90241548 45ae1df4 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.