FAILED: patch "[PATCH] usb: gadget: f_printer: take kref only for successful open" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 30adce93d5c4a5a1ec29d9249e3fdfcc391d406b
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026071412-palpable-underuse-1c58@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 30adce93d5c4a5a1ec29d9249e3fdfcc391d406b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xu Rao <raoxu@uniontech.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:46:17 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_printer: take kref only for successful open

printer_open() returns -EBUSY when the character device is already
open, but it increments dev->kref regardless of the return value. VFS
does not call ->release() for a failed open, so every rejected second
open permanently leaks one reference.

Move kref_get() into the successful-open branch.

Fixes: e8d5f92b8d30 ("usb: gadget: function: printer: fix use-after-free in __lock_acquire")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Xu Rao <raoxu@uniontech.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/80295742B820DA9B+20260626064617.4090626-1-raoxu@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_printer.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_printer.c
index e4f7828ae75d..837f753d0cae 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_printer.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_printer.c
@@ -363,12 +363,11 @@ printer_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *fd)
 		ret = 0;
 		/* Change the printer status to show that it's on-line. */
 		dev->printer_status |= PRINTER_SELECTED;
+		kref_get(&dev->kref);
 	}
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->lock, flags);
 
-	kref_get(&dev->kref);
-
 	return ret;
 }