From: Anfernee Cao <anferneemelokc5@gmail.com>
To: Bin Liu <b-liu@ti.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] usb: musb: fix double put of gadget device on setup failure
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:24:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <179250629747.20696.17364135141613638741@gmail.com> (raw)
musb_gadget_setup() calls usb_add_gadget_udc() and, when that fails,
calls device_unregister(&musb->g.dev). But usb_add_gadget_udc() already
releases the gadget on failure: usb_add_gadget_udc_release() calls
usb_put_gadget(), i.e. put_device(&gadget->dev), in its error path.
The device model documents the same rule in the kerneldoc of
device_register() (drivers/base/core.c):
NOTE: _Never_ directly free @dev after calling this function, even
if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized in this function instead.
The extra device_unregister() therefore runs device_del() on a device
that was never added (or was already deleted) and drops the reference a
second time, causing a refcount underflow.
Drop the redundant cleanup and just return the error; the UDC core has
already released the gadget.
This issue was found by manual code inspection.
Fixes: 3301c215a2bb ("USB: UDC: Expand device model API interface")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Anfernee Cao <anferneemelokc5@gmail.com>
---
drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c
index 016d3f3fc1e0..4bc4270088bc 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/musb/musb_gadget.c
@@ -1794,13 +1794,9 @@ int musb_gadget_setup(struct musb *musb)
status = usb_add_gadget_udc(musb->controller, &musb->g);
if (status)
- goto err;
+ return status;
return 0;
-err:
- musb->g.dev.parent = NULL;
- device_unregister(&musb->g.dev);
- return status;
}
void musb_gadget_cleanup(struct musb *musb)
--
2.54.0.windows.1
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