[PATCH net] can: esd_usb: kill anchored URBs before freeing netdevs

From: Fan Wu

Date: Thu Jul 09 2026 - 06:51:53 EST


esd_usb_disconnect() frees each CAN netdev with free_candev() inside
its per-netdev loop and only calls unlink_all_urbs(dev) afterwards.
The per-netdev private data (struct esd_usb_net_priv) is embedded in
the net_device allocation returned by alloc_candev(), so once
free_candev() has run, dev->nets[i] points to freed memory.
unlink_all_urbs() then dereferences the freed dev->nets[i] to kill the
per-netdev TX anchor (usb_kill_anchored_urbs(&priv->tx_submitted)),
clear active_tx_jobs, and reset priv->tx_contexts[].

Reorder the teardown so the anchored URBs are killed before the netdevs
are freed, matching other CAN/USB drivers in the same directory such as
ems_usb, usb_8dev and mcba_usb, which unregister, then unlink, then
free: unregister the netdevs first (which stops their TX queues), call
unlink_all_urbs(dev) once, then free the netdevs.

This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.

Fixes: 96d8e90382dc336b5de401164597edfdc2e8d9f1 ("can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.5
Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <fanwu01@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb.c
index d257440fa..f41d4a0d1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/esd_usb.c
@@ -1390,10 +1390,13 @@ static void esd_usb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
netdev = dev->nets[i]->netdev;
netdev_info(netdev, "unregister\n");
unregister_netdev(netdev);
- free_candev(netdev);
}
}
unlink_all_urbs(dev);
+ for (i = 0; i < dev->net_count; i++) {
+ if (dev->nets[i])
+ free_candev(dev->nets[i]->netdev);
+ }
kfree(dev);
}
}
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