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From: Rituparna Warwatkar <rwarwatkar@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Daniel Scally <dan.scally@ideasonboard.com>,
	Rituparna Warwatkar <rwarwatkar@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+54927260acba030187a6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] usb: gadget: uvc: don't pack struct uvcg_extension_unit_descriptor
Date: Sat,  1 Aug 2026 18:37:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260801163747.82910-1-rwarwatkar@gmail.com> (raw)

kmemleak reports the baSourceID and bmControls arrays allocated by the
UVC extension-unit configfs attributes as leaked, e.g.:

  BUG: memory leak
  unreferenced object 0xffff888114fee2c0 (size 8):
    __kmalloc_noprof
    uvcg_extension_ba_source_id_store
    configfs_write_iter
    vfs_write
    ksys_write

The arrays are not actually leaked: they are reachable through
xu->desc.baSourceID / xu->desc.bmControls and are freed when the
extension unit is removed.  The problem is that struct
uvcg_extension_unit_descriptor is marked __packed, so these two heap
pointers are stored at unaligned offsets (22 and 31).  kmemleak only
scans memory on pointer-aligned boundaries, so it never sees the
pointers and reports the arrays as unreferenced.

Unlike the UAPI struct uvc_extension_unit_descriptor, this is a purely
in-memory staging structure: baSourceID and bmControls are pointers,
not inline arrays, and the wire descriptor is assembled field by field
in UVC_COPY_XU_DESCRIPTOR().  Nothing relies on the packed layout, so
the __packed attribute is unnecessary and only serves to misalign the
pointers.

Drop __packed so the pointers are naturally aligned and visible to
kmemleak, silencing the false positive.

Fixes: 0525210c9840 ("usb: gadget: uvc: Allow definition of XUs in configfs")
Reported-by: syzbot+54927260acba030187a6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=54927260acba030187a6
Signed-off-by: Rituparna Warwatkar <rwarwatkar@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.h b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.h
index 9391614135e..5a882afbce4 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/uvc_configfs.h
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ struct uvcg_extension_unit_descriptor {
        u8 bControlSize;
        u8 *bmControls;
        u8 iExtension;
-} __packed;
+};

 struct uvcg_extension {
        struct config_item item;
--
2.47.3


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