CVE-2026-52982

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: usb: rtl8150: fix use-after-free in rtl8150_start_xmit()

syzbot reported a KASAN slab-use-after-free read in rtl8150_start_xmit() when accessing skb->len for tx statistics after usb_submit_urb() has been called:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rtl8150_start_xmit+0x71f/0x760 drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c:712 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810eb7a930 by task kworker/0:4/5226

The URB completion handler write_bulk_callback() frees the skb via dev_kfree_skb_irq(dev->tx_skb). The URB may complete on another CPU in softirq context before usb_submit_urb() returns in the submitter, so by the time the submitter reads skb->len the skb has already been queued to the per-CPU completion_queue and freed by net_tx_action():

CPU A (xmit) CPU B (USB completion softirq)

dev->tx_skb = skb; usb_submit_urb() –+ |——-> write_bulk_callback() | dev_kfree_skb_irq(dev->tx_skb) | net_tx_action() | napi_skb_cache_put() <– free netdev->stats.tx_bytes | += skb->len; <– UAF read

Fix it by caching skb->len before submitting the URB and using the cached value when updating the tx_bytes counter.

The pre-existing tx_bytes semantics are preserved: the counter tracks the original frame length (skb->len), not the ETH_ZLEN/USB-alignment padded "count" value that is handed to the device. Changing that would be a user-visible accounting change and is out of scope for this UAF fix.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5af290c86fa81ddbc86a08d54229af5daa40c6a4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24831b0b2ada9fef18d1f486b7b7c444ee5ba637
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/423b5b86e14e190f6e3161eb5f2ea5f908295ba7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5db090ca07b28a63fb1499690cf19a3f3adafacb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30cf9829d09ca958279c937af8e35495cd2f1e09
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6999d70e0eda39af029fa1891c48f0a8832b09d5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dd7eb94f79486b77ca6b4c8676aedbc465dc802
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23f0e34c64acba15cad4d23e50f41f533da195fa

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