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From: Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz <rafad900@gmail.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz <rafad900@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+4a5c87a01894ca37f25c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH usb-next v1] USB: gadget: Fix UAF on refcount inside gadgetfs_bind()
Date: Tue,  1 Sep 2026 22:21:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902052137.3824591-1-rafad900@gmail.com> (raw)

The UAF is triggered by the syzkaller reproducer which
forces kmalloc failure inside of usb_ep_alloc_request().

This will cause the following error path to execute:

if (!dev->req)
        goto enomem;
// ...

enomem:
	gadgetfs_unbind (gadget);
	return -ENOMEM;

In normal case, get_dev() will be called to increment
refcounter from gadget->dev->count but in error case,
this increment is skipped and gadgetfs_unbind() will
decrement it via put_dev().

Going down the error path leads to a refcount imbalance
which will cause UAF in close()/umount() operations
due to refcount dropping below 0.

Fix this by moving get_dev() above the error paths so
that refcounter is incremented before the put_dev()
call.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: syzbot+4a5c87a01894ca37f25c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4a5c87a01894ca37f25c
Signed-off-by: Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz <rafad900@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
index 3e2bce7543d4..181b19e7fc2f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
@@ -1679,6 +1679,7 @@ static int gadgetfs_bind(struct usb_gadget *gadget,
 	}
 
 	set_gadget_data (gadget, dev);
+	get_dev(dev);
 	dev->gadget = gadget;
 	gadget->ep0->driver_data = dev;
 
@@ -1696,7 +1697,6 @@ static int gadgetfs_bind(struct usb_gadget *gadget,
 	spin_lock_irq(&dev->lock);
 	dev->state = STATE_DEV_UNCONNECTED;
 	spin_unlock_irq(&dev->lock);
-	get_dev (dev);
 	return 0;
 
 enomem:
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-02  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-02  5:21 Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz [this message]
2026-09-02 14:40 ` Alan Stern

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