Re: [PATCH] net/9p/usbg: Fix use-after-free in usb9pfs_free_func

[Dominique Martinet]

Yizhou Zhao wrote on Fri, May 29, 2026 at 04:18:16PM +0800:
> In usb9pfs_free_func, kfree(usb9pfs) frees the entire f_usb9pfs
> structure which contains the embedded usb_function member that the
> parameter 'f' points to. After the kfree, the code accesses f->fi
> via container_of(f->fi, struct f_usb9pfs_opts, func_inst) and later
> calls usb_free_all_descriptors(f), both of which dereference the
> freed memory. Since f is &usb9pfs->function, all post-kfree accesses
> through f constitute use-after-free on the already-freed usb9pfs
> allocation.
> 
> Move kfree(usb9pfs) to the end of the function so that all accesses
> through f complete before the memory is freed.
> 
> Fixes: a3be076dc174 ("net/9p/usbg: Add new usb gadget function transport")
> Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang <yangyx22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Ao Wang <wangao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Xuewei Feng <fengxw06@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Qi Li <qli01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Ke Xu <xuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Assisted-by: GLM:GLM-5.1
> Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <zhaoyz24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks/sorry for the delay, I've picked this up for 7.4

There actually have been a duplicate of this commit a bit later with a
better commit message, so I've kept you as author as you were first, but
swapped the other's commit message in and added them as Co-developed-by

other mail
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260731150414.3135662-1-nicoyip.dev@xxxxxxxxx

commit as of now
https://github.com/martinetd/linux/commit/0955472fff1e9f9e410a0300136924ebc8bd7a16
(look in https://github.com/martinetd/linux/commits/9p-test if commit is
gone on rebase)

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