From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev, stable <stable@kernel.org>,
Kuen-Han Tsai <khtsai@google.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1 23/55] usb: gadget: u_ether: Fix race between gether_disconnect and eth_stop
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:00:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260413155725.695082326@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260413155724.820472494@linuxfoundation.org>
6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Kuen-Han Tsai <khtsai@google.com>
[ Upstream commit e1eabb072c75681f78312c484ccfffb7430f206e ]
A race condition between gether_disconnect() and eth_stop() leads to a
NULL pointer dereference. Specifically, if eth_stop() is triggered
concurrently while gether_disconnect() is tearing down the endpoints,
eth_stop() attempts to access the cleared endpoint descriptor, causing
the following NPE:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
Call trace:
__dwc3_gadget_ep_enable+0x60/0x788
dwc3_gadget_ep_enable+0x70/0xe4
usb_ep_enable+0x60/0x15c
eth_stop+0xb8/0x108
Because eth_stop() crashes while holding the dev->lock, the thread
running gether_disconnect() fails to acquire the same lock and spins
forever, resulting in a hardlockup:
Core - Debugging Information for Hardlockup core(7)
Call trace:
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x94/0x488
_raw_spin_lock+0x64/0x6c
gether_disconnect+0x19c/0x1e8
ncm_set_alt+0x68/0x1a0
composite_setup+0x6a0/0xc50
The root cause is that the clearing of dev->port_usb in
gether_disconnect() is delayed until the end of the function.
Move the clearing of dev->port_usb to the very beginning of
gether_disconnect() while holding dev->lock. This cuts off the link
immediately, ensuring eth_stop() will see dev->port_usb as NULL and
safely bail out.
Fixes: 2b3d942c4878 ("usb ethernet gadget: split out network core")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kuen-Han Tsai <khtsai@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311-gether-disconnect-npe-v1-1-454966adf7c7@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.c
@@ -1175,6 +1175,10 @@ void gether_disconnect(struct gether *li
DBG(dev, "%s\n", __func__);
+ spin_lock(&dev->lock);
+ dev->port_usb = NULL;
+ spin_unlock(&dev->lock);
+
netif_stop_queue(dev->net);
netif_carrier_off(dev->net);
@@ -1212,10 +1216,6 @@ void gether_disconnect(struct gether *li
dev->header_len = 0;
dev->unwrap = NULL;
dev->wrap = NULL;
-
- spin_lock(&dev->lock);
- dev->port_usb = NULL;
- spin_unlock(&dev->lock);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gether_disconnect);
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2026-04-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 6.1 07/55] MIPS: Always record SEGBITS in cpu_data.vmbits Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-04-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 6.1 11/55] media: uvcvideo: Use heuristic to find stream entity Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-04-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 6.1 16/55] apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 6.1 17/55] apparmor: fix missing bounds check on DEFAULT table in verify_dfa() Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-04-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 6.1 19/55] apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 6.1 20/55] apparmor: fix differential encoding verification Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:00 ` [PATCH 6.1 21/55] apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-04-13 16:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 26/55] ACPI: EC: Evaluate _REG outside the EC scope more carefully Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 28/55] rfkill: Use sysfs_emit() to instead of sprintf() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 29/55] rfkill: sync before userspace visibility/changes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 30/55] net: rfkill: reduce data->mtx scope in rfkill_fop_open Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 31/55] net: rfkill: prevent unlimited numbers of rfkill events from being created Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 32/55] seg6: separate dst_cache for input and output paths in seg6 lwtunnel Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 33/55] Revert "mptcp: add needs_id for netlink appending addr" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 34/55] drm/scheduler: signal scheduled fence when kill job Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 35/55] netfilter: nft_set_pipapo: do not rely on ZERO_SIZE_PTR Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 36/55] netfilter: nft_ct: fix use-after-free in timeout object destroy Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 37/55] xfrm: clear trailing padding in build_polexpire() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 38/55] tipc: fix bc_ackers underflow on duplicate GRP_ACK_MSG Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 39/55] wifi: brcmsmac: Fix dma_free_coherent() size Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 40/55] arm64: dts: hisilicon: poplar: Correct PCIe reset GPIO polarity Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 41/55] arm64: dts: hisilicon: hi3798cv200: Add missing dma-ranges Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 42/55] nfc: pn533: allocate rx skb before consuming bytes Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 43/55] batman-adv: reject oversized global TT response buffers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 44/55] EDAC/mc: Fix error path ordering in edac_mc_alloc() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 45/55] net/tls: fix use-after-free in -EBUSY error path of tls_do_encryption Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 46/55] net: altera-tse: fix skb leak on DMA mapping error in tse_start_xmit() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 47/55] batman-adv: hold claim backbone gateways by reference Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 48/55] drm/i915/gt: fix refcount underflow in intel_engine_park_heartbeat Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 49/55] net/mlx5: Update the list of the PCI supported devices Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 50/55] mmc: vub300: fix NULL-deref on disconnect Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 51/55] net: qualcomm: qca_uart: report the consumed byte on RX skb allocation failure Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 52/55] net: stmmac: fix integer underflow in chain mode Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 53/55] rxrpc: fix reference count leak in rxrpc_server_keyring() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 54/55] rxrpc: Fix key/keyring checks in setsockopt(RXRPC_SECURITY_KEY/KEYRING) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 16:01 ` [PATCH 6.1 55/55] Revert "PCI: Enable ACS after configuring IOMMU for OF platforms" Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13 17:38 ` [PATCH 6.1 00/55] 6.1.169-rc1 review Brett A C Sheffield
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2026-04-14 9:06 ` Peter Schneider
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2026-04-14 17:44 ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-14 18:18 ` Mark Brown
2026-04-16 22:09 ` Barry K. Nathan
2026-04-19 14:31 ` Guenter Roeck
2026-04-19 20:04 ` Linus Walleij
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