Hello, syzbot found the following issue on: HEAD commit: 449dc8c9 Merge tag 'for-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/.. git tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git usb-testing console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=16cd1a26900000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=6ef84fa8ee48e528 dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ff4b26b0bfbff2dc7960 compiler: gcc (GCC) 10.1.0-syz 20200507 Unfortunately, I don't have any reproducer for this issue yet. IMPORTANT: if you fix the issue, please add the following tag to the commit: Reported-by: syzbot+ff4b26b0bfbff2dc7960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx usb 5-1: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin failed with error -2 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rtl_fw_do_work+0x407/0x430 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c:87 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881cd72ff38 by task kworker/1:5/3068 CPU: 1 PID: 3068 Comm: kworker/1:5 Not tainted 5.8.0-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue: events request_firmware_work_func Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0xf6/0x16e lib/dump_stack.c:118 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1c/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:383 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:513 [inline] kasan_report.cold+0x37/0x7c mm/kasan/report.c:530 rtl_fw_do_work+0x407/0x430 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/core.c:87 request_firmware_work_func+0x126/0x250 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1001 process_one_work+0x94c/0x15f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2269 worker_thread+0x64c/0x1120 kernel/workqueue.c:2415 kthread+0x392/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:292 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:294 The buggy address belongs to the page: page:000000004712885d refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1cd72f flags: 0x200000000000000() raw: 0200000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffea000735cbc8 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff8881cd72fe00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ffff8881cd72fe80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >ffff8881cd72ff00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ^ ffff8881cd72ff80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ffff8881cd730000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ================================================================== --- This report is generated by a bot. It may contain errors. See https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ for more information about syzbot. syzbot engineers can be reached at syzkaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. syzbot will keep track of this issue. See: https://goo.gl/tpsmEJ#status for how to communicate with syzbot.