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KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/28 18:09
Reported-by: syzbot+241270a0dde24c5328f4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 19d, last: 19d
Similar bugs (5)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
linux-5.15 KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources 19 1 534d 534d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/01/10 04:18
linux-6.1 KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources 19 1 425d 425d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/04/29 03:56
upstream KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources media 19 1 2131d 2131d 0/29 auto-closed as invalid on 2020/09/15 20:41
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources media 19 C error error 453 13d 594d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/08/02 07:49
linux-6.6 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources 19 1 64d 64d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/01/14 08:01

Sample crash report:
em28xx 1-1:0.132: Closing input extension
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in media_device_unregister+0x13d/0x3f0 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:823
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807a990210 by task kworker/1:18/25375

CPU: 1 PID: 25375 Comm: kworker/1:18 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x188/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description+0x60/0x2d0 mm/kasan/report.c:248
 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:434 [inline]
 kasan_report+0xdf/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:451
 media_device_unregister+0x13d/0x3f0 drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c:823
 em28xx_unregister_media_device drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3464 [inline]
 em28xx_release_resources+0xaa/0x240 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:3485
 em28xx_usb_disconnect+0x196/0x2e0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c:4154
 usb_unbind_interface+0x1ee/0x860 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:458
 __device_release_driver drivers/base/dd.c:1229 [inline]
 device_release_driver_internal+0x4b4/0x750 drivers/base/dd.c:1262
 bus_remove_device+0x2e2/0x400 drivers/base/bus.c:531
 device_del+0x6af/0xaf0 drivers/base/core.c:3600
 usb_disable_device+0x3e2/0x890 drivers/usb/core/message.c:1414
 usb_disconnect+0x348/0x8a0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2287
 hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5341 [inline]
 hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5637 [inline]
 port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5799 [inline]
 hub_event+0x1ecb/0x55e0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5881
 process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:2373 [inline]
 worker_thread+0xd60/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2459
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
 </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001ea6400 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x7a990
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea00018ab708 ffff8880b91409f0 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 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 0x140dc0(GFP_USER|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO), pid 25378, ts 1321969741527, free_ts 1322525328570
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:2426 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x1bbd/0x1ca0 mm/page_alloc.c:4192
 __alloc_pages+0x1ee/0x480 mm/page_alloc.c:5487
 kmalloc_order+0x40/0x150 mm/slab_common.c:986
 kmalloc_order_trace+0x14/0xf0 mm/slab_common.c:1002
 kmalloc_large include/linux/slab.h:536 [inline]
 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:600 [inline]
 kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0xe2/0x2e50 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2542
 em28xx_init_extension+0x118/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1126
 process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa6/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287
page last free stack trace:
 reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:24 [inline]
 free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1340 [inline]
 free_pcp_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1391 [inline]
 free_unref_page_prepare+0x637/0x6c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3317
 free_unref_page+0x8f/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:3396
 free_nonslab_page+0xe2/0x150 mm/slub.c:3540
 em28xx_free_v4l2 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2128 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 em28xx_v4l2_init+0x1649/0x2e50 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-video.c:2911
 em28xx_init_extension+0x118/0x1b0 drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx-core.c:1126
 process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
 worker_thread+0xaa6/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2457
 kthread+0x436/0x520 kernel/kthread.c:334
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:287

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88807a990100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88807a990180: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>ffff88807a990200: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                         ^
 ffff88807a990280: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
 ffff88807a990300: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
==================================================================

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/28 18:08 linux-5.15.y 3330a8d33e08 43249bac .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan KASAN: use-after-free Read in em28xx_release_resources
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.