Re: [syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources

syzbot
2026-01-10T10:13:03Z

Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_open

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in v4l2_open+0x395/0x3a0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:444
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802882c808 by task v4l_id/6679

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6679 Comm: v4l_id Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 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_open+0x395/0x3a0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:444
chrdev_open+0x4cc/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:414
do_dentry_open+0x7ce/0x1420 fs/open.c:962
vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1094
do_open fs/namei.c:4637 [inline]
path_openat+0x340e/0x3dd0 fs/namei.c:4796
do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4823
do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x200 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+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1447
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f25280a7407
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:00007ffd5d4c3160 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f25287b8880 RCX: 00007f25280a7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffd5d4c3f1b RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007ffd5d4c33b0 R14: 00007f252891f000 R15: 00005609bc9d64d8
</TASK>

Allocated by task 6566:
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]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x3e2/0x700 mm/slub.c:5776
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
em28xx_v4l2_init+0xfe/0x30c0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2536
em28xx_init_extension+0x120/0x1c0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1117
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

Freed by task 6566:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 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:2540 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6670 [inline]
kfree+0x1c0/0x660 mm/slub.c:6878
em28xx_free_v4l2 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2118 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
em28xx_v4l2_init+0x181e/0x30c0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2906
em28xx_init_extension+0x120/0x1c0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1117
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3257 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xad1/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3340
worker_thread+0x8a0/0xda0 kernel/workqueue.c:3421
kthread+0x711/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
ret_from_fork+0x510/0xa50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:246

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802882c000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 2056 bytes inside of
freed 8192-byte region [ffff88802882c000, ffff88802882e000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x28828
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
ksm flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813ffa7280 ffffea0000bc1600 dead000000000003
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813ffa7280 ffffea0000bc1600 dead000000000003
head: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0000a20a01 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 0xd2040(__GFP_IO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5649, tgid 5649 (dhcpcd-run-hook), ts 51915061807, free_ts 51914952418
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x234/0x290 mm/page_alloc.c:1857
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1865 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x24e0/0x2580 mm/page_alloc.c:3915
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5210
alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2486
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3075 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x86/0x3b0 mm/slub.c:3248
new_slab mm/slub.c:3302 [inline]
___slab_alloc+0xe53/0x1820 mm/slub.c:4656
__slab_alloc+0x65/0x100 mm/slub.c:4779
__slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4855 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5251 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x41e/0x700 mm/slub.c:5771
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:957 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
tomoyo_print_bprm security/tomoyo/audit.c:26 [inline]
tomoyo_init_log+0x111f/0x1f70 security/tomoyo/audit.c:264
tomoyo_supervisor+0x340/0x1480 security/tomoyo/common.c:2198
tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:36 [inline]
tomoyo_env_perm+0x149/0x1e0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:63
tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:672 [inline]
tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x15ce/0x1aa0 security/tomoyo/domain.c:888
tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x11c/0x180 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:102
security_bprm_check+0x89/0x270 security/security.c:794
search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1659 [inline]
exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1701 [inline]
bprm_execve+0x887/0x1400 fs/exec.c:1753
do_execveat_common+0x510/0x6a0 fs/exec.c:1859
page last free pid 5649 tgid 5649 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1406 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xbc8/0xd30 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
discard_slab mm/slub.c:3346 [inline]
__put_partials+0x146/0x170 mm/slub.c:3886
__slab_free+0x294/0x320 mm/slub.c:5952
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x97/0x100 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:4953 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x3cf/0x800 mm/slub.c:5669
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
tomoyo_add_entry security/tomoyo/common.c:2132 [inline]
tomoyo_supervisor+0xbd5/0x1480 security/tomoyo/common.c:2204
tomoyo_audit_env_log security/tomoyo/environ.c:36 [inline]
tomoyo_env_perm+0x149/0x1e0 security/tomoyo/environ.c:63
tomoyo_environ security/tomoyo/domain.c:672 [inline]
tomoyo_find_next_domain+0x15ce/0x1aa0 security/tomoyo/domain.c:888
tomoyo_bprm_check_security+0x11c/0x180 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c:102
security_bprm_check+0x89/0x270 security/security.c:794
search_binary_handler fs/exec.c:1659 [inline]
exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1701 [inline]
bprm_execve+0x887/0x1400 fs/exec.c:1753
do_execveat_common+0x510/0x6a0 fs/exec.c:1859
do_execve fs/exec.c:1933 [inline]
__do_sys_execve fs/exec.c:2009 [inline]
__se_sys_execve fs/exec.c:2004 [inline]
__x64_sys_execve+0x94/0xb0 fs/exec.c:2004
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xec/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88802882c700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88802882c780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88802882c800: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88802882c880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88802882c900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Tested on:

commit: b6151c4e Merge tag 'erofs-for-6.19-rc5-fixes' of git:/..
git tree: upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=1213f83a580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=323fe5bdde2384a5
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=16062f26c6480975e5ed
compiler: Debian clang version 20.1.8 (++20250708063551+0c9f909b7976-1~exp1~20250708183702.136), Debian LLD 20.1.8
patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=153d3f92580000