From: hyunjungg <hj351016@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hyunjung Ko <hj351016@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] usb: sl811-hcd: delete the driver timer on stop to avoid use-after-free
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2026 00:18:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261107151847.3754846-1-hj351016@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Hyunjung Ko <hj351016@gmail.com>
sl811h_hub_control() arms sl811->timer (sl811h_timer) with mod_timer()
for port reset/resume timing; the timer callback dereferences the
hcd-private struct sl811 (sl811->ctrl1, sl811->lock, sl811->port1, and
register I/O via sl811).
sl811h_stop() deletes only the USB core's root-hub timer
(hcd->rh_timer); it never deletes sl811->timer, and nothing else does
either. struct sl811 lives in the HCD private area and is freed by
usb_put_hcd() after sl811h_remove() calls usb_remove_hcd(). If
sl811->timer is still pending when the controller is stopped and the HCD
is freed, sl811h_timer() runs against the freed struct sl811
(use-after-free).
Delete sl811->timer at the start of sl811h_stop(), next to the existing
hcd->rh_timer teardown and before port_power(sl811, 0) halts the
controller, so any pending sl811h_timer() is drained before the hardware
is halted and cannot re-enable it afterwards. usb_remove_hcd() has
already stopped root-hub activity before sl811h_stop() runs, so the timer
cannot be re-armed, and sl811h_timer() does not re-arm itself, so a
single timer_delete_sync() drains it.
Found by static analysis and code review; not tested on real hardware
(needs an SL811HS USB host controller).
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunjung Ko <hj351016@gmail.com>
---
v2: delete sl811->timer BEFORE port_power(sl811, 0) (top of sl811h_stop(),
next to hcd->rh_timer) instead of after it, so a pending sl811h_timer()
is drained before the controller is halted and cannot re-enable it in
the window after the lock is dropped. Corrected the log: only
sl811h_hub_control() arms sl811->timer (not the transfer scheduler).
Both per Sashiko AI review.
drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.c
index b044977..b667732 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/sl811-hcd.c
@@ -1516,6 +1516,7 @@ sl811h_stop(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
unsigned long flags;
timer_delete_sync(&hcd->rh_timer);
+ timer_delete_sync(&sl811->timer);
spin_lock_irqsave(&sl811->lock, flags);
port_power(sl811, 0);
--
2.43.0
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