KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_giveback_urb_bh (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/29 03:48
Subsystems: usb
Labels: prio:high actionable
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Reported-by: syzbot+a5b220cacb0618384d5a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 50d, last: 50d
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1283cfd9 repro-c 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_giveback_urb_bh (2) 2026/10/09 15:52 2026/10/09 15:52 2026/10/09 16:34 549ef7e3
70caf674 repro-c 💥 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_giveback_urb_bh (2) 2026/10/07 14:53 2026/10/07 14:53 2026/10/07 15:33 f8f239cf
23af27c3 moderation Actionable: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_giveback_urb_bh (2) 2026/09/29 03:15 2026/09/29 03:15 2026/09/29 03:47 58f15308
5753a59e assessment-security DenialOfService: ✅ Exploitable: ✅ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ✅ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ✅ VMHostTrigger: ✅ ❓ KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_giveback_urb_bh (2) 2026/09/26 01:42 2026/09/26 01:42 2026/09/26 02:47 f281d9d2
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[PATCH v2] usb: hcd: Cancel BH giveback works on removal 3 (3) 2026/10/30 14:37
[PATCH] usb: core: hcd: cancel giveback work synchronously on stop 18 (18) 2026/10/29 14:21
[syzbot] [usb?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_giveback_urb_bh (2) 0 (1) 2026/09/29 03:48
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Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_giveback_urb_bh prio:high actionable usb 22 2 85d 82d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2026/09/22 14:33

Sample crash report:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in usb_giveback_urb_bh+0x441/0x560 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1692
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888022a54300 by task ksoftirqd/1/30

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 30 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
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/0x1c0 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 usb_giveback_urb_bh+0x441/0x560 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1692
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline]
 bh_worker+0x6a5/0x8f0 kernel/workqueue.c:3782
 workqueue_softirq_action+0x14a/0x1b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3810
 tasklet_hi_action+0x17/0x70 kernel/softirq.c:994
 handle_softirqs+0x1e6/0x9d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
 run_ksoftirqd kernel/softirq.c:1099 [inline]
 run_ksoftirqd+0x38/0x60 kernel/softirq.c:1091
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x3d3/0xab0 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1:
 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
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:263 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5414 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x32f/0x840 mm/slub.c:5439
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
 _kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
 __usb_create_hcd+0x5e/0xac0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:2566
 vhci_hcd_probe+0xf3/0x4e0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1378
 platform_probe+0x106/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1507
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3776
 platform_device_add+0x35a/0x800 drivers/base/platform.c:833
 platform_device_register_full+0x507/0x720 drivers/base/platform.c:970
 vhci_hcd_init+0x1a1/0x2f0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1557
 do_one_initcall+0x11c/0x6f0 init/main.c:1362
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1424 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1440 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1460 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x6ea/0x7b0 init/main.c:1675
 kernel_init+0x21/0x1e0 init/main.c:1565
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Freed by task 1:
 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:2748 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:6508 [inline]
 kfree+0x22b/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6801
 hcd_release drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:2690 [inline]
 kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
 usb_put_hcd drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:2704 [inline]
 usb_put_hcd+0x149/0x1f0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:2701
 vhci_hcd_probe+0x342/0x4e0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1415
 platform_probe+0x106/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1507
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3776
 platform_device_add+0x35a/0x800 drivers/base/platform.c:833
 platform_device_register_full+0x507/0x720 drivers/base/platform.c:970
 vhci_hcd_init+0x1a1/0x2f0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1557
 do_one_initcall+0x11c/0x6f0 init/main.c:1362
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1424 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1440 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1460 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x6ea/0x7b0 init/main.c:1675
 kernel_init+0x21/0x1e0 init/main.c:1565
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xa7/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 insert_work+0x36/0x230 kernel/workqueue.c:2272
 __queue_work+0xa60/0x1370 kernel/workqueue.c:2448
 queue_work_on+0x1a9/0x1e0 kernel/workqueue.c:2501
 queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:700 [inline]
 usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x330/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1758
 usb_rh_urb_dequeue drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:845 [inline]
 unlink1+0x418/0x510 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1580
 usb_hcd_unlink_urb+0x131/0x210 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1617
 usb_kill_urb drivers/usb/core/urb.c:716 [inline]
 usb_kill_urb+0x121/0x320 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:703
 hub_quiesce+0x1e9/0x320 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:1417
 hub_suspend+0x4ab/0x9e0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:4021
 usb_suspend_interface drivers/usb/core/driver.c:1327 [inline]
 usb_suspend_both+0x288/0x950 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:1450
 usb_runtime_suspend+0x49/0x120 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:2004
 __rpm_callback+0xc8/0x620 drivers/base/power/runtime.c:406
 rpm_callback+0x11f/0x150 drivers/base/power/runtime.c:460
 rpm_suspend+0x2f4/0x1220 drivers/base/power/runtime.c:695
 __pm_runtime_suspend+0xba/0x1a0 drivers/base/power/runtime.c:1167
 pm_runtime_put_sync_autosuspend include/linux/pm_runtime.h:740 [inline]
 usb_new_device.part.0+0x1653/0x1686 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2740
 register_root_hub+0x4e6/0x639 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:990
 usb_add_hcd.cold+0xccd/0x1158 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:2987
 vhci_hcd_probe+0x14b/0x4e0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1388
 platform_probe+0x106/0x1d0 drivers/base/platform.c:1507
 call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:628 [inline]
 really_probe+0x241/0xa60 drivers/base/dd.c:706
 __driver_probe_device+0x210/0x460 drivers/base/dd.c:868
 driver_probe_device+0x4a/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:898
 __device_attach_driver+0x1df/0x320 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
 bus_for_each_drv+0x159/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
 __device_attach+0x1e4/0x4d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
 device_initial_probe+0xaf/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
 bus_probe_device+0x64/0x160 drivers/base/bus.c:620
 device_add+0x121d/0x1970 drivers/base/core.c:3776
 platform_device_add+0x35a/0x800 drivers/base/platform.c:833
 platform_device_register_full+0x507/0x720 drivers/base/platform.c:970
 vhci_hcd_init+0x1a1/0x2f0 drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c:1557
 do_one_initcall+0x11c/0x6f0 init/main.c:1362
 do_initcall_level init/main.c:1424 [inline]
 do_initcalls init/main.c:1440 [inline]
 do_basic_setup init/main.c:1460 [inline]
 kernel_init_freeable+0x6ea/0x7b0 init/main.c:1675
 kernel_init+0x21/0x1e0 init/main.c:1565
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245

Second to last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:57
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0xa7/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:556
 insert_work+0x36/0x230 kernel/workqueue.c:2272
 __queue_work+0xa60/0x1370 kernel/workqueue.c:2448
 queue_work_on+0x1a9/0x1e0 kernel/workqueue.c:2501
 queue_work include/linux/workqueue.h:700 [inline]
 usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x3b8/0x4a0 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1760
 rh_call_control drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:706 [inline]
 rh_urb_enqueue drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:817 [inline]
 usb_hcd_submit_urb+0xab7/0x2150 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1538
 usb_submit_urb+0x827/0x19b0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:586
 usb_start_wait_urb+0x10e/0x580 drivers/usb/core/message.c:62
 usb_internal_control_msg drivers/usb/core/message.c:117 [inline]
 usb_control_msg+0x328/0x4b0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:167
 get_port_status drivers/usb/core/hub.c:607 [inline]
 hub_ext_port_status+0x14e/0x690 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:624
 usb_hub_port_status drivers/usb/core/hub.c:674 [inline]
 hub_activate+0x6e5/0x1c40 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:1190
 process_one_work+0xac7/0x1b10 kernel/workqueue.c:3396
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3479 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5ef/0xe50 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
 kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 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 ffff888022a54000
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 768 bytes inside of
 freed 8192-byte region [ffff888022a54000, ffff888022a56000)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x22a50
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 ffff88801c043180 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 00fff00000000040 ffff88801c043180 dead000000000100 dead000000000122
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 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 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 7221018769
 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
 post_alloc_hook+0xfd/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
 get_page_from_freelist+0x110d/0x35d0 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x2eb/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
 alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
 allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3462 [inline]
 new_slab+0xa9/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:3513
 refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7417
 refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4774
 alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
 __do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5413 [inline]
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x67c/0x840 mm/slub.c:5439
 _kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
 acpi_ut_initialize_buffer+0x144/0x220 drivers/acpi/acpica/utalloc.c:327
 acpi_rs_create_pci_routing_table+0x135/0xe00 drivers/acpi/acpica/rscreate.c:212
 acpi_rs_get_prt_method_data+0xc1/0x150 drivers/acpi/acpica/rsutils.c:456
 acpi_get_irq_routing_table+0xb8/0x140 drivers/acpi/acpica/rsxface.c:137
 acpi_pci_irq_find_prt_entry+0x179/0xdd0 drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c:215
 acpi_pci_irq_lookup+0x8e/0x6b0 drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c:299
 acpi_pci_irq_disable+0x1a8/0x360 drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c:499
 pcibios_disable_device arch/x86/pci/common.c:706 [inline]
 pcibios_disable_device+0x89/0xb0 arch/x86/pci/common.c:703
 do_pci_disable_device+0x9f/0x100 drivers/pci/pci.c:2203
page_owner free stack trace missing

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff888022a54200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888022a54280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888022a54300: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                   ^
 ffff888022a54380: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff888022a54400: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/24 16:33 upstream 62f4c998b297 3c3cdf19 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_giveback_urb_bh
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.