From: Nguyen Quang Le Kien <khiemtranzo532001@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
driver-core@lists.linux.dev,
syzbot+87188222c77c0dbbdb4d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
Nguyen Quang Le Kien <khiemtranzo532001@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] driver core: avoid klist_remove() on unattached knode_driver
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:45:38 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820074538.102158-1-khiemtranzo532001@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026082048-malformed-finite-4e61@gregkh>
usb_driver_claim_interface() sets dev->driver directly and skips
device_bind_driver() when the interface is not yet registered, so the
device can reach teardown with dev->driver set but knode_driver never
added to the driver's klist_devices. __device_release_driver() then
unconditionally calls klist_remove() on the unattached node, which
dereferences a NULL klist pointer in klist_put() and crashes.
Only remove the node if the device is actually bound. Use
device_is_bound() rather than klist_node_attached() directly: the
latter is a raw klist API and does not NULL-check dev->p, while
device_is_bound() is the standard bound-state check used throughout
driver core (driver_bound(), __device_attach()).
Fixes: 94e7b1c5ff20 ("[PATCH] Add a klist to struct device_driver for the devices bound to it.")
Reported-by: syzbot+87188222c77c0dbbdb4d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=87188222c77c0dbbdb4d
Signed-off-by: Nguyen Quang Le Kien <khiemtranzo532001@gmail.com>
---
drivers/base/dd.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 60c005223..4154b4499 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -1354,7 +1354,8 @@ static void __device_release_driver(struct device *dev, struct device *parent)
device_unbind_cleanup(dev);
device_links_driver_cleanup(dev);
- klist_remove(&dev->p->knode_driver);
+ if (device_is_bound(dev))
+ klist_remove(&dev->p->knode_driver);
device_pm_check_callbacks(dev);
bus_notify(dev, BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER);
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-20 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-20 5:55 [PATCH] driver core: avoid klist_remove() on unattached knode_driver Nguyen Quang Le Kien
2026-08-20 6:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyen Quang Le Kien
2026-08-20 6:40 ` Greg KH
2026-08-20 6:56 ` Nguyen Quang Le Kien
2026-08-20 7:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-08-20 7:45 ` Nguyen Quang Le Kien [this message]
2026-08-20 8:23 ` [PATCH v3] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
[not found] ` <20260820084557.129908-1-khiemtranzo532001@gmail.com>
2026-08-20 16:14 ` [PATCH v4] " Danilo Krummrich
2026-08-20 17:22 ` Alan Stern
2026-08-20 20:54 ` Danilo Krummrich
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