Re: [syzbot] [usb?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in usb_free_urb
From: syzbot
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 01:10:26 EST
syzbot has found a reproducer for the following issue on:
HEAD commit: 786262be6048 Merge tag 'edac_updates_for_v7.3_rc2' of git:..
git tree: upstream
console+strace: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=12a28125580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=b454dc6b1b7acd30
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=832ce9fa3face1b7d44d
compiler: Debian clang version 22.1.8 (++20260613092233+e80beda6e255-1~exp1~20260613092250.77), Debian LLD 22.1.8
syz repro: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.syz?x=1735af79580000
C reproducer: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/repro.c?x=135b7f79580000
Downloadable assets:
disk image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/c3e528ebf709/disk-786262be.raw.xz
vmlinux: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/46f3418d2828/vmlinux-786262be.xz
kernel image: https://storage.googleapis.com/syzbot-assets/60ab8a27c4f7/bzImage-786262be.xz
IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit:
Reported-by: syzbot+832ce9fa3face1b7d44d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
usb 1-1: received EP1 urb->status = -2
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in usb_free_urb+0x24/0x120 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:96
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88803cee1050 by task ktimers/1/29
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 29 Comm: ktimers/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 [inline]
__refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
__refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:64 [inline]
usb_free_urb+0x24/0x120 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:96
dummy_timer+0xaac/0x4d50 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:2019
__run_hrtimer kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2067 [inline]
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x3eb/0xaf0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2124
hrtimer_run_softirq+0x1e1/0x2e0 kernel/time/hrtimer.c:2141
handle_softirqs+0x1da/0x6d0 kernel/softirq.c:645
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:679 [inline]
run_ktimerd+0x6a/0x100 kernel/softirq.c:1183
smpboot_thread_fn+0x565/0xa70 kernel/smpboot.c:160
kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
Allocated by task 36:
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]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5414 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x41d/0x790 mm/slub.c:5439
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:995 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
snd_card_new+0x7b/0x110 sound/core/init.c:184
create_card sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:429 [inline]
snd_probe+0x236/0x1af0 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:544
usb_probe_interface+0x788/0xe50 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:399
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
bus_for_each_drv+0x25b/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
__device_attach+0x2c7/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
bus_probe_device+0x12d/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3776
usb_set_configuration+0x1ad8/0x2180 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
usb_probe_device+0x1c3/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
bus_for_each_drv+0x25b/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
__device_attach+0x2c7/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
bus_probe_device+0x12d/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3776
usb_new_device+0x99a/0x1680 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2708
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5580 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5720 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5884 [inline]
hub_event+0x28cf/0x4cf0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5966
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
Freed by task 36:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:57 [inline]
kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:78
kasan_save_free_info+0x40/0x50 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:2748 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:6499 [inline]
kfree+0x1c5/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:6792
device_release+0xc4/0x1f0 drivers/base/core.c:-1
kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
kobject_put+0x222/0x550 lib/kobject.c:737
snd_card_free_when_closed sound/core/init.c:630 [inline]
snd_card_free+0x138/0x1d0 sound/core/init.c:662
snd_probe+0x162b/0x1af0 sound/usb/caiaq/device.c:553
usb_probe_interface+0x788/0xe50 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:399
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
bus_for_each_drv+0x25b/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
__device_attach+0x2c7/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
bus_probe_device+0x12d/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3776
usb_set_configuration+0x1ad8/0x2180 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2268
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8d/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:250
usb_probe_device+0x1c3/0x3b0 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x254/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:706
__driver_probe_device+0x1e8/0x360 drivers/base/dd.c:868
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x240 drivers/base/dd.c:898
__device_attach_driver+0x270/0x410 drivers/base/dd.c:1026
bus_for_each_drv+0x25b/0x2f0 drivers/base/bus.c:500
__device_attach+0x2c7/0x450 drivers/base/dd.c:1098
device_initial_probe+0xa1/0xd0 drivers/base/dd.c:1153
bus_probe_device+0x12d/0x220 drivers/base/bus.c:620
device_add+0x7d7/0xb80 drivers/base/core.c:3776
usb_new_device+0x99a/0x1680 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2708
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5580 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5720 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5884 [inline]
hub_event+0x28cf/0x4cf0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5966
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3396 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xc3d/0x1630 kernel/workqueue.c:3479
worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3560
kthread+0x38b/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 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 ffff88803cee0000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-8k of size 8192
The buggy address is located 4176 bytes inside of
freed 8192-byte region [ffff88803cee0000, ffff88803cee2000)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x3cee0
head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1)
page_type: f5(slab)
raw: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff00280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000040 ffff88813ff00280 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
head: 0000000000000000 0000000000020002 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000
head: 0080000000000003 fffffffffffffe01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff
head: 0000000000000000 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 0xd2000(__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC), pid 5616, tgid 5616 (syz-executor411), ts 97458631629
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:33 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f9/0x250 mm/page_alloc.c:1871
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1879 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x2591/0x2600 mm/page_alloc.c:3943
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x230/0x5c0 mm/page_alloc.c:5436
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x7d/0x620 mm/slub.c:3462
new_slab mm/slub.c:3513 [inline]
refill_objects+0x2d8/0x350 mm/slub.c:7410
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x339/0x690 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x46f/0x680 mm/slub.c:5559
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
usb_device_dump+0xd0/0x2200 drivers/usb/core/devices.c:412
usb_device_read+0x1b4/0x2c0 drivers/usb/core/devices.c:530
full_proxy_read+0x127/0x1f0 fs/debugfs/file.c:379
vfs_read+0x219/0xa90 fs/read_write.c:572
ksys_read+0x156/0x270 fs/read_write.c:716
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
page last free pid 5598 tgid 5598 ts 96447293579 stack trace:
reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:26 [inline]
__free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1418 [inline]
__free_frozen_pages+0xf8e/0x1070 mm/page_alloc.c:2962
__slab_free+0x250/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:5815
qlink_free mm/kasan/quarantine.c:163 [inline]
qlist_free_all+0x99/0x100 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:4683 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4996 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x353/0x680 mm/slub.c:5559
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
kernfs_fop_open+0x3a7/0xcf0 fs/kernfs/file.c:634
do_dentry_open+0x849/0x1420 fs/open.c:996
vfs_open+0x3b/0x350 fs/open.c:1101
do_open fs/namei.c:4837 [inline]
path_openat+0x1448/0x1d60 fs/namei.c:5000
do_file_open+0x23e/0x4a0 fs/namei.c:5029
do_sys_openat2+0x115/0x200 fs/open.c:1417
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1423 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1439 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1434 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1434
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x166/0x520 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88803cee0f00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88803cee0f80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88803cee1000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88803cee1080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88803cee1100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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