[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.18-5.10] thunderbolt: Set tb->root_switch to NULL when domain is stopped

From: Sasha Levin

Date: Mon Aug 31 2026 - 14:46:14 EST


From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit e56249d8a68e712f3b60e1f3fdbb5b4fea146468 ]

Similarly what we do with the firmware connection manager. This makes
tb_xdp_handle_request() return error to the remote host. However, we
need to make sure we keep the uuid alive so that we can reply until the
whole domain is released.

Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:

The background `git branch -a --contains` lookup timed out — this repo
has too many branches for that to finish quickly.

The analysis itself is complete. **Verdict: YES** for backport to this
tree (`linux-6.18.y` at v6.18.43).

The fix is missing from your current checkout and from
`stable/linux-6.18.y`, but is already present in mainline
(`origin/master`). It's a small teardown fix: `tb_stop()` leaves a
dangling `tb->root_switch` after switch removal, which can cause a UAF
crash when in-flight XDomain request work runs during driver unload. The
patch mirrors what `icm_stop()` already does and applies cleanly
here.The `git branch -a --contains e56249d8a68e7` lookup timed out again
— too many branches in this repo for that to finish in a reasonable
time.

I checked the important branches directly instead: the fix is **not** in
your current `6.18.43` checkout or `stable/linux-6.18.y`, but **is** in
`origin/master`. That supports the earlier **YES** backport verdict.

drivers/thunderbolt/tb.c | 1 +
drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/tb.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/tb.c
index 041a4c8e10fb9..b516b1ad83a19 100644
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/tb.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/tb.c
@@ -2952,6 +2952,7 @@ static void tb_stop(struct tb *tb)
tb_tunnel_put(tunnel);
}
tb_switch_remove(tb->root_switch);
+ tb->root_switch = NULL;
tcm->hotplug_active = false; /* signal tb_handle_hotplug to quit */
}

diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c
index fed0fae2a6299..1eb149445fa05 100644
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/xdomain.c
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ static void tb_xdp_handle_request(struct work_struct *work)

mutex_lock(&tb->lock);
if (tb->root_switch)
- uuid = tb->root_switch->uuid;
+ uuid = kmemdup(tb->root_switch->uuid, sizeof(*uuid), GFP_KERNEL);
else
uuid = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&tb->lock);
@@ -870,6 +870,7 @@ static void tb_xdp_handle_request(struct work_struct *work)
}

out:
+ kfree(uuid);
kfree(xw->pkg);
kfree(xw);

@@ -2344,6 +2345,9 @@ static struct tb_xdomain *switch_find_xdomain(struct tb_switch *sw,
{
struct tb_port *port;

+ if (!sw)
+ return NULL;
+
tb_switch_for_each_port(sw, port) {
struct tb_xdomain *xd;

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