[PATCH] usb: gadget: f_hid: only clear write_pending from the owning request

From: Hyeontae Lee

Date: Fri Aug 14 2026 - 04:56:58 EST


f_hidg_write() sets write_pending, caches hidg->req into a stack local,
and drops write_spinlock across copy_from_user(). hidg_disable() frees
hidg->req whenever write_pending is clear, so that flag is the only thing
keeping the writer's cached pointer alive.

f_hidg_req_complete() clears it for whichever request completes, not for
the one the writer owns. A write() that has queued a request leaves it
queued indefinitely if the host never issues an IN token. When the host
then disables the configuration, usb_ep_disable() gives that old request
back, its completion clears write_pending, and hidg_disable() goes on to
free hidg->req - which a different write() is holding at that moment.

The writer resumes, finds hidg->req NULL, and frees its cached pointer a
second time:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in f_hidg_write+0x7b7/0x920
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888104fc9018 by task s4-3/163

Allocated by task 0:
alloc_ep_req+0x20/0x1b0
hidg_set_alt+0x1ed/0xbd0
composite_setup+0x1072/0x8690
configfs_composite_setup+0xcd/0x110
dummy_timer+0x1a68/0x31d0

Freed by task 0:
kfree+0x121/0x380
hidg_disable+0x559/0x7a0
reset_config+0x9d/0x200
composite_setup+0x32d4/0x8690
configfs_composite_setup+0xcd/0x110
dummy_timer+0x1a68/0x31d0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888104fc9000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-128 of size 128

BUG: KASAN: double-free in f_hidg_write+0x267/0x920

Record which request owns the flag and let only that request's completion
clear it. An older queued request being given back then leaves
write_pending set, hidg_disable() declines to free, and the writer frees
its own request on the existing path.

Fixes: 25cd9721c2b1 ("usb: gadget: f_hid: fix: Don't access hidg->req without spinlock held")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Hyeontae Lee <wonju345@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Notes for reviewers:

The clearer was identified by instrumenting the three sites that clear the
flag: of 4944 frees at hidg_disable(), all 4944 followed a clear from
f_hidg_req_complete(), and 4440 freed a request a writer was holding.

749494b6bdbb introduced the stack local but left the uses on hidg->req, so
check and use still agreed; 25cd9721c2b1 moved the uses to the local and
left the guard on the field, which is why that one is tagged.

Every dereference of the freed pointer is inside f_hidg_write(), so this is
not remotely triggerable on its own - a local process must be writing to
/dev/hidgN at the time.

hidg_disable() now declines to free a request a writer owns; f_hid's request
lifetime under repeated SET_INTERFACE has pre-existing gaps this does not
address.

Tested on v7.2-rc7-12 (f5bbbfec59b4) under dummy_hcd, report_length=8: over
45 s of identical workload, double frees of the same address went from 52 to
0 and KASAN reports from 208 to 0.
---
drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c
index 3c6b43d06a6d1..d65169c9645b1 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_hid.c
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ struct f_hidg {
/* send report */
spinlock_t write_spinlock;
bool write_pending;
+ struct usb_request *write_req;
wait_queue_head_t write_queue;
struct usb_request *req;

@@ -443,7 +444,16 @@ static void f_hidg_req_complete(struct usb_ep *ep, struct usb_request *req)
}

spin_lock_irqsave(&hidg->write_spinlock, flags);
- hidg->write_pending = 0;
+ /*
+ * Only the completion of the request this writer owns may clear the
+ * flag. usb_ep_disable() gives back whatever is still queued from an
+ * earlier write(), and letting that clear write_pending lets
+ * hidg_disable() go on to free a request a writer is still holding.
+ */
+ if (req == hidg->write_req) {
+ hidg->write_req = NULL;
+ hidg->write_pending = 0;
+ }
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hidg->write_spinlock, flags);
wake_up(&hidg->write_queue);
}
@@ -480,6 +490,7 @@ static ssize_t f_hidg_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,

hidg->write_pending = 1;
req = hidg->req;
+ hidg->write_req = req;
count = min_t(unsigned, count, hidg->report_length);

spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hidg->write_spinlock, flags);
@@ -502,6 +513,8 @@ static ssize_t f_hidg_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,

/* when our function has been disabled by host */
if (!hidg->req) {
+ if (hidg->write_req == req)
+ hidg->write_req = NULL;
free_ep_req(hidg->in_ep, req);
/*
* TODO
@@ -534,6 +547,7 @@ static ssize_t f_hidg_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
release_write_pending:
spin_lock_irqsave(&hidg->write_spinlock, flags);
hidg->write_pending = 0;
+ hidg->write_req = NULL;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hidg->write_spinlock, flags);

wake_up(&hidg->write_queue);
@@ -1102,6 +1116,7 @@ static int hidg_set_alt(struct usb_function *f, unsigned intf, unsigned alt)
spin_lock_irqsave(&hidg->write_spinlock, flags);
hidg->req = req_in;
hidg->write_pending = 0;
+ hidg->write_req = NULL;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hidg->write_spinlock, flags);

wake_up(&hidg->write_queue);
--
2.43.0