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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_release (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/08/24 06:17
Subsystems: media usb
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Reported-by: syzbot+a658d41cf8564471775e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 15d, last: 1d05h
▶ ▼ Discussions (3)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[syzbot] [media?] [usb?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_release (2) 1 (3) 2025/08/24 08:37
[PATCH v2] media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe() 1 (1) 2025/08/23 12:00
[PATCH] media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe() 1 (1) 2025/08/22 14:27
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_release media usb 19 C error inconclusive 1 216d 278d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/14 22:25
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_release (3) usb media 19 C error error 34 1499d 2055d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2023/04/15 03:26
▶ ▼ Last patch testing requests (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/08/24 08:09 27m hdanton@sina.com patch upstream OK log

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in v4l2_release+0xbd/0x3b0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:455
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88803380c0c8 by task v4l_id/7890

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7890 Comm: v4l_id Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 v4l2_release+0xbd/0x3b0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:455
 __fput+0x44c/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:468
 fput_close_sync+0x119/0x200 fs/file_table.c:573
 __do_sys_close fs/open.c:1587 [inline]
 __se_sys_close fs/open.c:1572 [inline]
 __x64_sys_close+0x7f/0x110 fs/open.c:1572
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fe6c60a7407
Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 38 aa 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 <5b> c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
RSP: 002b:00007fff98873b40 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fe6c675e880 RCX: 00007fe6c60a7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fe6c675e6e8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007fff98873d70 R14: 00007fe6c6863000 R15: 0000561c633154d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6061:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:388 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:405
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x230/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4396
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 hackrf_probe+0xda/0x1360 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:1351
 usb_probe_interface+0x668/0xc30 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26d/0x9e0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x2f0 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ce/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x24e/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:462
 __device_attach+0x2b8/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 bus_probe_device+0x185/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:537
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb50 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x20e0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2210
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x390 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26d/0x9e0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x2f0 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ce/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x24e/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:462
 __device_attach+0x2b8/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 bus_probe_device+0x185/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:537
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb50 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_new_device+0xa39/0x16f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2694
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5566 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5706 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5870 [inline]
 hub_event+0x2958/0x4a20 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5952
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x3f9/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 6061:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:243 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5b/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:275
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2417 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4680 [inline]
 kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4879
 hackrf_probe+0xd98/0x1360 drivers/media/usb/hackrf/hackrf.c:1523
 usb_probe_interface+0x668/0xc30 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26d/0x9e0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x2f0 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ce/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x24e/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:462
 __device_attach+0x2b8/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 bus_probe_device+0x185/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:537
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb50 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_set_configuration+0x1a87/0x20e0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2210
 usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
 usb_probe_device+0x1c4/0x390 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:291
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
 really_probe+0x26d/0x9e0 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x2f0 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x430 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x2ce/0x530 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x24e/0x2e0 drivers/base/bus.c:462
 __device_attach+0x2b8/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 bus_probe_device+0x185/0x260 drivers/base/bus.c:537
 device_add+0x7b6/0xb50 drivers/base/core.c:3689
 usb_new_device+0xa39/0x16f0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2694
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5566 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5706 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5870 [inline]
 hub_event+0x2958/0x4a20 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5952
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3236 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xae1/0x17b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3319
 worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
 kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x3f9/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88803380c000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 200 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff88803380c000, ffff88803380e000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x33808
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 ffff88801a442280 ffffea00008ec000 dead000000000006
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801a442280 ffffea00008ec000 dead000000000006
head: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0000ce0201 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 0xd20c0(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 25007805576, free_ts 0
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
 alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:2487 [inline]
 allocate_slab+0x8a/0x370 mm/slub.c:2655
 new_slab mm/slub.c:2709 [inline]
 ___slab_alloc+0xbeb/0x1410 mm/slub.c:3891
 __slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3981 [inline]
 __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4056 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4217 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x305/0x4f0 mm/slub.c:4377
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:909 [inline]
 kmalloc_array_noprof include/linux/slab.h:948 [inline]
 mb_cache_create+0x15f/0x540 fs/mbcache.c:368
 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5447 [inline]
 ext4_fill_super+0x40a9/0x6090 fs/ext4/super.c:5728
 get_tree_bdev_flags+0x40e/0x4d0 fs/super.c:1692
 vfs_get_tree+0x92/0x2b0 fs/super.c:1815
 do_new_mount+0x2a2/0x9e0 fs/namespace.c:3808
 init_mount+0xbb/0x100 fs/init.c:25
 do_mount_root+0xf4/0x260 init/do_mounts.c:165
 mount_root_generic+0x198/0x350 init/do_mounts.c:204
 prepare_namespace+0x71/0xa0 init/do_mounts.c:491
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88803380bf80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88803380c000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88803380c080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                              ^
 ffff88803380c100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88803380c180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/08/24 06:16 upstream 8d245acc1e88 bf27483f .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_release
2025/08/10 03:57 upstream 561c80369df0 32a0e5ed .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_release
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.