Hello,
syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer still triggered crash:
KASAN: use-after-free Read in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx+0x416/0x500 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c:229
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881cf89f17c by task swapper/1/0
CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.6.0-rc7-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0xef/0x16e lib/dump_stack.c:118
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xd3/0x314 mm/kasan/report.c:374
__kasan_report.cold+0x37/0x77 mm/kasan/report.c:506
kasan_report+0xe/0x20 mm/kasan/common.c:641
ath9k_wmi_ctrl_rx+0x416/0x500 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c:229
ath9k_htc_rx_msg+0x2d9/0xb00 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:459
ath9k_hif_usb_reg_in_cb+0x1a6/0x620 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:724
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x1f2/0x470 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1648
usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x368/0x420 drivers/usb/core/hcd.c:1713
dummy_timer+0x1258/0x32ae drivers/usb/gadget/udc/dummy_hcd.c:1966
call_timer_fn+0x195/0x6f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1404
expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1449 [inline]
__run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1773 [inline]
__run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1740 [inline]
run_timer_softirq+0x5f9/0x1500 kernel/time/timer.c:1786
__do_softirq+0x21e/0x950 kernel/softirq.c:292
invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:373 [inline]
irq_exit+0x178/0x1a0 kernel/softirq.c:413
exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:546 [inline]
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x141/0x540 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1146
apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:829
</IRQ>
RIP: 0010:default_idle+0x28/0x300 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:696
Code: cc cc 41 56 41 55 65 44 8b 2d 04 3b 72 7a 41 54 55 53 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 b6 27 b5 fb e9 07 00 00 00 0f 00 2d aa d0 52 00 fb f4 <65> 44 8b 2d e0 3a 72 7a 0f 1f 44 00 00 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e c3
RSP: 0018:ffff8881da22fda8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff13
RAX: 0000000000000007 RBX: ffff8881da213100 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffff8881da21394c
RBP: ffffed103b442620 R08: ffff8881da213100 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffff87e61300 R15: 0000000000000000
cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:154 [inline]
do_idle+0x3e0/0x500 kernel/sched/idle.c:269
cpu_startup_entry+0x14/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:361
start_secondary+0x2a4/0x390 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:264
secondary_startup_64+0xb6/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:242
Allocated by task 157:
save_stack+0x1b/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:72
set_track mm/kasan/common.c:80 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:515 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0xbf/0xd0 mm/kasan/common.c:488
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:555 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:669 [inline]
ath9k_init_wmi+0x40/0x310 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/wmi.c:95
ath9k_htc_probe_device+0x21c/0x1d80 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:953
ath9k_htc_hw_init+0x31/0x60 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:501
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x26b/0x500 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1218
request_firmware_work_func+0x126/0x242 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:976
process_one_work+0x94b/0x1620 kernel/workqueue.c:2266
worker_thread+0x96/0xe20 kernel/workqueue.c:2412
kthread+0x318/0x420 kernel/kthread.c:255
ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352
Freed by task 157:
save_stack+0x1b/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:72
set_track mm/kasan/common.c:80 [inline]
kasan_set_free_info mm/kasan/common.c:337 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x117/0x160 mm/kasan/common.c:476
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1444 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1477 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:3034 [inline]
kfree+0xd5/0x300 mm/slub.c:3995
ath9k_htc_probe_device+0x278/0x1d80 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:970
ath9k_htc_hw_init+0x31/0x60 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:501
ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0x26b/0x500 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1218
request_firmware_work_func+0x126/0x242 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:976
process_one_work+0x94b/0x1620 kernel/workqueue.c:2266
worker_thread+0x96/0xe20 kernel/workqueue.c:2412
kthread+0x318/0x420 kernel/kthread.c:255
ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881cf89f000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 380 bytes inside of
2048-byte region [ffff8881cf89f000, ffff8881cf89f800)
The buggy address belongs to the page:
page:ffffea00073e2600 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff8881da00c000 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0
flags: 0x200000000010200(slab|head)
raw: 0200000000010200 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 ffff8881da00c000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000080008 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff8881cf89f000: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8881cf89f080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff8881cf89f100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
^
ffff8881cf89f180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff8881cf89f200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
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Tested on:
commit: 0fa84af8 Merge tag 'usb-serial-5.7-rc1' of https://git.ker..
git tree: https://github.com/google/kasan.git usb-fuzzer
console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=139f3b1fe00000
kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=a782c087b1f425c6
dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5d338854440137ea0fef
compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.0.0 20181231 (experimental)
patch: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/patch.diff?x=17e22ac7e00000
