[v5.15] KASAN: use-after-free Read in dummy_timer (2)

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syzbot found the following issue on:

HEAD commit: 9eec9a14ee10 Linux 5.15.198
git tree: linux-5.15.y
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=14a95c52580000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=353ae28c40b35af5
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=10598bf6994d7b70b1a4
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8

Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet.

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smsusb:smsusb_onresponse: error, urb status -71, 0 bytes
smsusb:smsusb_onresponse: error, urb status -71, 0 bytes
smsusb:smsusb_onresponse: error, urb status -71, 0 bytes
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in dummy_timer+0x29cb/0x31e0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1844
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88805497a154 by task syz.2.435/6410

CPU: 1 PID: 6410 Comm: syz.2.435 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
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
dummy_timer+0x29cb/0x31e0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1844
call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1451
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1496 [inline]
__run_timers+0x53a/0x7f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1767
run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1780
handle_softirqs+0x339/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
</IRQ>
<TASK>
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:finish_lock_switch+0x134/0x280 kernel/sched/core.c:4804
Code: be ff ff ff ff e8 4c 80 67 08 85 c0 74 4a 4d 85 ff 75 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 df e8 b6 eb 70 08 e8 41 e0 2a 00 fb 48 83 c4 08 <5b> 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 89 df e8 c9 09 fe ff 43 80 3c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003a072c8 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: e9e7b7d06cfe7c00 RBX: ffff8880b913a340 RCX: e9e7b7d06cfe7c00
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2780 RDI: ffffffff8a79f780
RBP: 1ffff11017227613 R08: ffff8880b913a343 R09: 1ffff11017227468
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017227469 R12: 1ffff110172275c1
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b913ae08 R15: 0000000000000000
finish_task_switch+0x12f/0x640 kernel/sched/core.c:4921
context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5052 [inline]
__schedule+0x11f7/0x43c0 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
schedule+0x11b/0x1e0 kernel/sched/core.c:6478
schedule_timeout+0xbd/0x2d0 kernel/time/timer.c:1890
unix_wait_for_peer+0x1f2/0x2e0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1315
unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x1083/0x18a0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1910
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:706 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:718 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x5b7/0x8f0 net/socket.c:2445
___sys_sendmsg+0x236/0x2e0 net/socket.c:2499
__sys_sendmmsg+0x2ba/0x500 net/socket.c:2585
__do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2614 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2611 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x9c/0xb0 net/socket.c:2611
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7fa01c215eb9
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fa01a471028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fa01c490fa0 RCX: 00007fa01c215eb9
RDX: 0000000000000651 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007fa01c283c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fa01c491038 R14: 00007fa01c490fa0 R15: 00007ffcfca69748
</TASK>

Allocated by task 5402:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:513 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xb5/0xf0 mm/kasan/common.c:522
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:607 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:738 [inline]
smsusb_init_device drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:397 [inline]
smsusb_probe+0x8a1/0x1de0 drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:569
usb_probe_interface+0x5c5/0xb20 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x284/0xc80 drivers/base/dd.c:595
__driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:755
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:785
__device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:907
bus_for_each_drv+0x184/0x210 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x2a8/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:979
bus_probe_device+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xa00/0xfb0 drivers/base/core.c:3412
usb_set_configuration+0x1991/0x1fd0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2165
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x89/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
usb_probe_device+0x139/0x270 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x284/0xc80 drivers/base/dd.c:595
__driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:755
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:785
__device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:907
bus_for_each_drv+0x184/0x210 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x2a8/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:979
bus_probe_device+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xa00/0xfb0 drivers/base/core.c:3412
usb_new_device+0xd65/0x1660 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2632
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5497 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5637 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5799 [inline]
hub_event+0x2e4a/0x55e0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5881
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

Freed by task 5402:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x4b/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:46
kasan_set_free_info+0x1f/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:360
____kasan_slab_free+0xd5/0x110 mm/kasan/common.c:366
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:230 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1710 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook+0xea/0x170 mm/slub.c:1736
slab_free mm/slub.c:3504 [inline]
kfree+0xef/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4564
smsusb_term_device+0x1ac/0x220 drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:352
smsusb_init_device drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:491 [inline]
smsusb_probe+0x1746/0x1de0 drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c:569
usb_probe_interface+0x5c5/0xb20 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x284/0xc80 drivers/base/dd.c:595
__driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:755
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:785
__device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:907
bus_for_each_drv+0x184/0x210 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x2a8/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:979
bus_probe_device+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xa00/0xfb0 drivers/base/core.c:3412
usb_set_configuration+0x1991/0x1fd0 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2165
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x89/0x150 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
usb_probe_device+0x139/0x270 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:-1 [inline]
really_probe+0x284/0xc80 drivers/base/dd.c:595
__driver_probe_device+0x18c/0x330 drivers/base/dd.c:755
driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x420 drivers/base/dd.c:785
__device_attach_driver+0x2b0/0x500 drivers/base/dd.c:907
bus_for_each_drv+0x184/0x210 drivers/base/bus.c:429
__device_attach+0x2a8/0x480 drivers/base/dd.c:979
bus_probe_device+0xbc/0x1e0 drivers/base/bus.c:489
device_add+0xa00/0xfb0 drivers/base/core.c:3412
usb_new_device+0xd65/0x1660 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2632
hub_port_connect drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5497 [inline]
hub_port_connect_change drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5637 [inline]
port_event drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5799 [inline]
hub_event+0x2e4a/0x55e0 drivers/usb/core/hub.c:5881
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

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
insert_work+0x54/0x3d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1366
__queue_work+0x9c5/0xd50 kernel/workqueue.c:1532
queue_work_on+0x124/0x1f0 kernel/workqueue.c:1559
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x35f/0x520 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1674
dummy_timer+0x8a8/0x31e0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988
call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1451
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1496 [inline]
__run_timers+0x53a/0x7f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1767
run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1780
handle_softirqs+0x339/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676

Second to last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x35/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:38
kasan_record_aux_stack+0xb8/0x100 mm/kasan/generic.c:348
insert_work+0x54/0x3d0 kernel/workqueue.c:1366
__queue_work+0x9c5/0xd50 kernel/workqueue.c:1532
queue_work_on+0x124/0x1f0 kernel/workqueue.c:1559
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x35f/0x520 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1674
dummy_timer+0x8a8/0x31e0 drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1988
call_timer_fn+0x17b/0x540 kernel/time/timer.c:1451
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1496 [inline]
__run_timers+0x53a/0x7f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1767
run_timer_softirq+0x63/0xf0 kernel/time/timer.c:1780
handle_softirqs+0x339/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
__do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
__irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88805497a000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-4k of size 4096
The buggy address is located 340 bytes inside of
4096-byte region [ffff88805497a000, ffff88805497b000)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea0001525e00 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x54978
head:ffffea0001525e00 order:3 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff888016c42140
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000040004 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 3, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x1d2a20(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_HARDWALL), pid 5825, ts 183388357284, free_ts 178645902946
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
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1780 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:1917 [inline]
new_slab+0xc0/0x4b0 mm/slub.c:1980
___slab_alloc+0x80a/0xdd0 mm/slub.c:3013
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3100 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3191 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1fc/0x3a0 mm/slub.c:4963
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:356 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x22c/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:427
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1162 [inline]
nsim_dev_trap_skb_build drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:664 [inline]
nsim_dev_trap_report drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:721 [inline]
nsim_dev_trap_report_work+0x2a1/0xb40 drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c:762
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
qlist_free_all+0x35/0x90 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:176
kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x150/0x160 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:283
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x2f/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:444
kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x12d/0x2d0 mm/slub.c:3261
__alloc_skb+0xf4/0x750 net/core/skbuff.c:415
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1162 [inline]
nlmsg_new include/net/netlink.h:953 [inline]
inet_netconf_notify_devconf+0x16f/0x230 net/ipv4/devinet.c:2121
__devinet_sysctl_unregister net/ipv4/devinet.c:2630 [inline]
devinet_sysctl_unregister net/ipv4/devinet.c:2654 [inline]
inetdev_destroy net/ipv4/devinet.c:326 [inline]
inetdev_event+0x702/0x1370 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1611
notifier_call_chain kernel/notifier.c:83 [inline]
raw_notifier_call_chain+0xcb/0x160 kernel/notifier.c:391
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:2061 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:2075 [inline]
unregister_netdevice_many+0x1049/0x19f0 net/core/dev.c:11134
default_device_exit_batch+0x364/0x3c0 net/core/dev.c:11667
ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:177 [inline]
cleanup_net+0x791/0xba0 net/core/net_namespace.c:635
process_one_work+0x85f/0x1010 kernel/workqueue.c:2310
worker_thread+0xaa6/0x1290 kernel/workqueue.c:2457

Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff88805497a000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88805497a080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88805497a100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff88805497a180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff88805497a200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
0: be ff ff ff ff mov $0xffffffff,%esi
5: e8 4c 80 67 08 call 0x8678056
a: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax
c: 74 4a je 0x58
e: 4d 85 ff test %r15,%r15
11: 75 66 jne 0x79
13: 0f 1f 44 00 00 nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
18: 48 89 df mov %rbx,%rdi
1b: e8 b6 eb 70 08 call 0x870ebd6
20: e8 41 e0 2a 00 call 0x2ae066
25: fb sti
26: 48 83 c4 08 add $0x8,%rsp
* 2a: 5b pop %rbx <-- trapping instruction
2b: 41 5c pop %r12
2d: 41 5d pop %r13
2f: 41 5e pop %r14
31: 41 5f pop %r15
33: 5d pop %rbp
34: c3 ret
35: 48 89 df mov %rbx,%rdi
38: e8 c9 09 fe ff call 0xfffe0a06
3d: 43 rex.XB
3e: 80 .byte 0x80
3f: 3c .byte 0x3c


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