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KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/01/22 08:53
Subsystems: media
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Reported-by: syzbot+07b93bb3189febcab189@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 121d, last: 2d22h
Discussions (3)
Title Replies (including bot) Last reply
[PATCH v2] media: em28xx: fix use-after-free in em28xx_unregister_media_device() 4 (4) 2026/05/19 11:08
[PATCH] media: em28xx: fix use-after-free in em28xx_unregister_media_device() 1 (1) 2026/04/13 14:44
[syzbot] [media?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device 0 (1) 2026/01/22 08:53

Sample crash report:
em28xx 4-1:0.132: Closing input extension
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in media_device_unregister drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:833 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in media_device_unregister+0x59d/0x610 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:811
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888090008210 by task kworker/1:0/24

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 24 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
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+0x13d/0x4b0 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x1d0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 media_device_unregister drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:833 [inline]
 media_device_unregister+0x59d/0x610 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:811
 em28xx_unregister_media_device+0x4e/0xe0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3714
 em28xx_release_resources+0x79/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3735
 em28xx_usb_disconnect.cold+0x17d/0x253 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:4427
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1dd/0x9e0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 device_remove drivers/base/dd.c:621 [inline]
 device_remove+0x12a/0x180 drivers/base/dd.c:613
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1352 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x44e/0x620 drivers/base/dd.c:1375
 bus_remove_device+0x2bc/0x560 drivers/base/bus.c:657
 device_del+0x376/0x9b0 drivers/base/core.c:3895
 usb_disable_device+0x367/0x810 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1478
 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+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 5721:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:398 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:415
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init.cold+0x94/0x3a40 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2707
 em28xx_init_extension+0x13a/0x200 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1248
 request_module_async+0x61/0x80 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3660
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 5721:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:78
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70 mm/kasan/generic.c:584
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:253 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x5f/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:285
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:235 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2689 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6250 [inline]
 kfree+0x223/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:6565
 kref_put.isra.0+0x53/0x75 include/linux/kref.h:65
 em28xx_v4l2_init.cold+0x280/0x3a40 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:3078
 em28xx_init_extension+0x13a/0x200 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1248
 request_module_async+0x61/0x80 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3660
 process_one_work+0xa0e/0x1980 kernel/workqueue.c:3314
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3397 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3478
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x72b/0xd50 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888090008000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 528 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff888090008000, ffff88809000a000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x90008
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 ffff88813fe32280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88813fe32280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000800020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000003 fffffffffffffe01 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 11635, tgid 11630 (syz.4.1560), ts 730322388615, free_ts 730299095593
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0x153/0x170 mm/page_alloc.c:1858
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1866 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x11a6/0x33b0 mm/page_alloc.c:3946
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x27c/0x2bc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5226
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3278 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3467 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa6/0x6c0 mm/slub.c:3525
 refill_objects+0x277/0x420 mm/slub.c:7271
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2816 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x375/0x650 mm/slub.c:4651
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4749 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4883 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5294 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x688/0x850 mm/slub.c:5307
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:954 [inline]
 n_hdlc_alloc_buf+0x5b/0xf0 drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c:672
 n_hdlc_alloc drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c:705 [inline]
 n_hdlc_tty_open+0x26b/0x520 drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c:236
 tty_ldisc_open+0xa2/0x120 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:432
 tty_set_ldisc+0x325/0x740 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:563
 tiocsetd drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2429 [inline]
 tty_ioctl+0x695/0x1640 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2728
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x10b/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 11630 tgid 11630 stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
 __free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1402 [inline]
 __free_frozen_pages+0x747/0x1040 mm/page_alloc.c:2943
 qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
 qlist_free_all+0x47/0xf0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:179
 kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x1a0/0x1f0 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:286
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x69/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:350
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:253 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4569 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4898 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x241/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:4905
 vm_area_dup+0x27/0x8e0 mm/vma_init.c:123
 __split_vma+0x18c/0xd90 mm/vma.c:516
 split_vma mm/vma.c:599 [inline]
 vma_modify+0x1cf4/0x25c0 mm/vma.c:1691
 vma_modify_flags+0x257/0x3d0 mm/vma.c:1719
 mprotect_fixup+0x27a/0xe30 mm/mprotect.c:789
 do_mprotect_pkey+0xa4b/0xef0 mm/mprotect.c:967
 __do_sys_mprotect mm/mprotect.c:988 [inline]
 __se_sys_mprotect mm/mprotect.c:985 [inline]
 __x64_sys_mprotect+0x78/0xc0 mm/mprotect.c:985
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x10b/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888090008100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888090008180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888090008200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                         ^
 ffff888090008280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888090008300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Crashes (22):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/16 15:58 upstream 6916d5703ddf a15a64a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/16 15:36 upstream 6916d5703ddf a15a64a6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/14 06:57 upstream e1914add2799 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/12 16:44 upstream 50897c955902 d5b1a17d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/05 09:07 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/05 09:03 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/05 08:35 upstream c7e4e4d5f7dc a898ba9c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/24 20:14 upstream dd6c438c3e64 1c2b9291 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/22 02:03 upstream 4ee64205ffaa 0b6ab7ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/19 11:34 upstream faeab166167f 303e2802 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/08 09:59 upstream 3036cd0d3328 2c961e87 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/03 06:22 upstream d8a9a4b11a13 4440e7c2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/03/29 18:18 upstream cbfffcca2bf0 356bdfc9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/02/20 21:46 upstream 8bf22c33e7a1 741f5161 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/02/20 21:39 upstream 8bf22c33e7a1 741f5161 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/02/10 11:03 upstream 8a5203c630c6 4ab09a02 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/05/01 19:02 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 25bd55f46032 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/04/15 04:29 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 87117347a0e7 e2e976a8 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/03/22 15:29 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 84db3719d273 5b92003d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/01/30 17:01 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 0a06917432a7 ae7dc18c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/01/21 07:33 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing 5ac87cd859ec 6f1aa2f9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
2026/01/18 05:05 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing fa3bb5011f33 20d37d28 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-usb KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_unregister_media_device
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.