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KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/06/03 20:38
Reported-by: syzbot+c5ac76891d9b32bfdfad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d16h, last: 22h20m
Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open prio:high usb media 19 C error 1178 1h53m 82d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/03/19 07:21
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open origin:upstream 19 C 10 1d09h 5d20h 0/3 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/06/03 16:24
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open 19 C 3 5d18h 26d 0/2 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/14 00:02

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in v4l2_open+0x352/0x360 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:432
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880732207e8 by task v4l_id/4590

CPU: 0 PID: 4590 Comm: v4l_id Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/09/2026
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
 v4l2_open+0x352/0x360 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:432
 chrdev_open+0x5c5/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x7e9/0x10d0 fs/open.c:882
 do_open fs/namei.c:3634 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2635/0x2ee0 fs/namei.c:3791
 do_filp_open+0x1f1/0x430 fs/namei.c:3818
 do_sys_openat2+0x150/0x4b0 fs/open.c:1320
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1336 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1352 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1347 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x135/0x160 fs/open.c:1347
 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
RIP: 0033:0x7fb9ebea7407
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:00007ffe5e336d70 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb9ec670880 RCX: 00007fb9ebea7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffe5e337f1e RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffe5e336fc0 R14: 00007fb9ec7cf000 R15: 000055f642b804d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 4359:
 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
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2355 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xd83/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2444
 kthread+0x29d/0x330 kernel/kthread.c:376
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295

Freed by task 4359:
 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
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2355 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xd83/0x1270 kernel/workqueue.c:2444
 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 ffff888073220000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 2024 bytes inside of
 8192-byte region [ffff888073220000, ffff888073222000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0001cc8800 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x73220
head:ffffea0001cc8800 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea0000bdba00 dead000000000002 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 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 4014, tgid 4014 (S50sshd), ts 48548434501, free_ts 48507082859
 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
 kmalloc_trace+0x26/0xe0 mm/slab_common.c:1026
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:699 [inline]
 tomoyo_print_bprm security/tomoyo/audit.c:26 [inline]
 tomoyo_init_log+0x1090/0x1f80 security/tomoyo/audit.c:264
 tomoyo_supervisor+0x35f/0x11a0 security/tomoyo/common.c:2088
 tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:36 [inline]
 tomoyo_env_perm+0x14e/0x1f0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:63
 tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:672 [inline]
 tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x1578/0x1a50 security/tomoyo/domain.c:882
 tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x100/0x150 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:101
 security_bprm_check+0x5e/0x90 security/security.c:870
 search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1752 [inline]
 exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1805 [inline]
 bprm_execve+0xa50/0x17e0 fs/exec.c:1874
 do_execveat_common+0x51b/0x6c0 fs/exec.c:1979
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
 prepare_creds+0x3c/0x610 kernel/cred.c:260
 access_override_creds fs/open.c:376 [inline]
 do_faccessat+0xeb/0xa10 fs/open.c:440
 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:
 ffff888073220680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888073220700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888073220780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                          ^
 ffff888073220800: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888073220880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (4):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/06/08 14:39 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 656e94c6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/06/04 07:11 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 197909be .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/06/03 20:40 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 234057e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
2026/06/03 20:38 linux-6.1.y 228da13e907e 234057e5 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in v4l2_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.