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KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open (2)

Status: moderation: reported on 2025/11/18 04:15
Subsystems: media
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Reported-by: syzbot+c5f6ea42dfcd8a8d3bbf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 111d, last: 19d
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
14d533c2-ebe5-4431-b96c-030b7543685c moderation Actionable: ✅  Confident: ✅  KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open (2) 2026/02/06 07:06 2026/02/06 10:57 2026/02/06 11:06 9b618abc0cd923b36c7a5ebc58a21174112d8f70
70a37b1e-7391-4de5-9de7-812c3b399d2f moderation 💥 KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open (2) 2026/01/14 18:39 2026/01/14 18:39 2026/01/14 18:42 a9d6a79219801d2130df3b1a792c57f0e5428e9f failed to run ["make" "KERNELVERSION=syzkaller" "KERNELRELEASE=syzkaller" "LOCALVERSION=-syzkaller" "-j" "128" "ARCH=x86_64" "CC=ccache clang" "LD=ld.lld" "O=/usr/local/google/home/dvyukov/syzkaller/agent/workdir/cache/build/f941df09ce9523aae1a8c3cdfa37d4514c0bfb3e" "bzImage" "compile_commands.json"]: exit status 2
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open media 19 5 240d 419d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/16 09:46

Sample crash report:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_waiter_is_first kernel/locking/mutex.c:199 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:694 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __mutex_lock+0x1861/0x1b90 kernel/locking/mutex.c:776
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888136699b60 by task v4l_id/24515

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 24515 Comm: v4l_id Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(voluntary) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x100/0x190 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x156/0x4c9 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1a0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 __mutex_waiter_is_first kernel/locking/mutex.c:199 [inline]
 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:694 [inline]
 __mutex_lock+0x1861/0x1b90 kernel/locking/mutex.c:776
 em28xx_v4l2_open+0xfc/0x570 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2150
 v4l2_open+0x1d2/0x490 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:433
 chrdev_open+0x234/0x6a0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0x71a/0x1400 fs/open.c:962
 vfs_open+0x82/0x3f0 fs/open.c:1094
 do_open fs/namei.c:4637 [inline]
 path_openat+0x21dc/0x3120 fs/namei.c:4796
 do_filp_open+0x1f7/0x420 fs/namei.c:4823
 do_sys_openat2+0x12e/0x220 fs/open.c:1430
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1436 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1447 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x12d/0x210 fs/open.c:1447
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xc9/0x570 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fea01147407
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:00007ffe4033c730 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fea01059880 RCX: 00007fea01147407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffe4033df22 RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffe4033c980 R14: 00007fea018dd000 R15: 00005608f55f94d8
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888136699b40 pfn:0x136699
flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)
raw: 0200000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
raw: ffff888136699b40 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 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 0x40dc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_COMP), pid 5234, tgid 5234 (kworker/1:3), ts 2261051200008, free_ts 2262501793377
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x1e1/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1884
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1892 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0xd57/0x3b20 mm/page_alloc.c:3945
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x269/0x2230 mm/page_alloc.c:5240
 alloc_pages_mpol+0xe8/0x410 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
 ___kmalloc_large_node+0x104/0x150 mm/slub.c:5598
 __kmalloc_large_noprof+0x1c/0x70 mm/slub.c:5619
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 em28xx_usb_probe+0x1eb/0xd30 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3908
 usb_probe_interface+0x303/0x8f0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:581 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:659
 __driver_probe_device+0x1de/0x400 drivers/base/dd.c:801
 driver_probe_device+0x4c/0x1b0 drivers/base/dd.c:831
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x340 drivers/base/dd.c:959
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1031
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1086
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:574
page last free pid 5234 tgid 5234 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1433 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x7d1/0x1010 mm/page_alloc.c:2973
 kref_put.constprop.0.isra.0+0x4d/0x6d include/linux/kref.h:65
 em28xx_usb_disconnect.cold+0x1e8/0x253 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:4207
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1dd/0x9e0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:571 [inline]
 device_remove+0x12a/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:563
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1282 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x42e/0x600 drivers/base/dd.c:1305
 bus_remove_device+0x22f/0x440 drivers/base/bus.c:616
 device_del+0x376/0x9b0 drivers/base/core.c:3878
 usb_disable_device+0x367/0x810 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1418
 usb_disconnect+0x2e2/0x9a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2345
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5407 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5707 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5871 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1d0c/0x4af0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5953
 process_one_work+0x9c2/0x1840 kernel/workqueue.c:3257
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3340 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5da/0xe40 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
 kthread+0x3b3/0x730 kernel/kthread.c:463
 ret_from_fork+0x6c3/0xa20 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888136699a00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888136699a80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff888136699b00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                                                       ^
 ffff888136699b80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff888136699c00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
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Crashes (3):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/14 08:09 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing da87d45b1951 1e62d198 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open
2026/02/07 05:43 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing da87d45b1951 f20fc9f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open
2025/11/14 04:09 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 18514fd70ea4 07e030de .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_v4l2_open
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.