Message-ID: <6961cc69.050a0220.1c677c.03db.GAE@google.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:50:01 -0800
From: syzbot <syzbot+16062f26c6480975e5ed@...kaller.appspotmail.com>
To: hdanton@...a.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources

Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue:
KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in v4l2_fh_open

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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in v4l2_fh_init drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c:25 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in v4l2_fh_open+0xac/0x420 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c:64
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88802f1b8740 by task v4l_id/6806

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6806 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_fh_init drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c:25 [inline]
 v4l2_fh_open+0xac/0x420 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-fh.c:64
 em28xx_v4l2_open+0x157/0x9a0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2153
 v4l2_open+0x1bf/0x3a0 drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-dev.c:433
 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: 0033:0x7fc5b96a7407
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:00007fffdbdc9110 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fc5b9d43880 RCX: 00007fc5b96a7407
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007fffdbdcaf1c RDI: ffffffffffffff9c
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fffdbdc9360 R14: 00007fc5b9eaa000 R15: 000055ed108754d8
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6727:
 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:2532
 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 6727:
 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:2902
 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 ffff88802f1b8000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 1856 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff88802f1b8000, ffff88802f1ba000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2f1b8
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
anon flags: 0xfff00000000040(head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813ffa7280 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813ffa7280 0000000000000000 0000000000000001
head: 0000000000000000 0000000080020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 ffffea0000bc6e01 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 0x528c0(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP), pid 6263, tgid 6263 (syz-executor), ts 116705980999, free_ts 116699070356
 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]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x6b6/0x920 mm/slub.c:7136
 kvmalloc_array_node_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1122 [inline]
 __ptr_ring_init_queue_alloc_noprof include/linux/ptr_ring.h:481 [inline]
 ptr_ring_init_noprof include/linux/ptr_ring.h:499 [inline]
 skb_array_init_noprof include/linux/skb_array.h:182 [inline]
 pfifo_fast_init+0x242/0x6c0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:870
 qdisc_create_dflt+0x13b/0x4c0 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1015
 attach_one_default_qdisc net/sched/sch_generic.c:1174 [inline]
 netdev_for_each_tx_queue include/linux/netdevice.h:2680 [inline]
 attach_default_qdiscs net/sched/sch_generic.c:1192 [inline]
 dev_activate+0x378/0x1150 net/sched/sch_generic.c:1251
 __dev_open+0x647/0x800 net/core/dev.c:1692
 __dev_change_flags+0x1f7/0x680 net/core/dev.c:9736
 netif_change_flags+0x88/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:9799
 do_setlink+0xc55/0x41c0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3158
 rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3776 [inline]
 __rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3935 [inline]
 rtnl_newlink+0x161c/0x1c90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4072
page last free pid 6263 tgid 6263 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]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
 fib6_info_alloc+0x30/0xf0 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c:155
 ip6_route_info_create+0x142/0x860 net/ipv6/route.c:3820
 ip6_route_add+0x49/0x1b0 net/ipv6/route.c:3949
 addrconf_add_mroute net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2552 [inline]
 addrconf_add_dev+0x23f/0x320 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:2570
 addrconf_gre_config net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3530 [inline]
 addrconf_init_auto_addrs+0x146/0xa00 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3559
 addrconf_notify+0xb1e/0x1050 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3740
 notifier_call_chain+0x19d/0x3a0 kernel/notifier.c:85
 call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2268 [inline]
 call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2282 [inline]
 __dev_notify_flags+0x18d/0x2e0 net/core/dev.c:-1
 netif_change_flags+0xe8/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:9804

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88802f1b8600: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802f1b8680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88802f1b8700: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                           ^
 ffff88802f1b8780: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88802f1b8800: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================


Tested on:

commit:         cb2076b0 Merge tag 'block-6.19-20260109' of git://git...
git tree:       upstream
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=17eb519a580000
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=12bc719a580000

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