[PATCH v3] usb: gadget: f_tcm: reject a short write data-out transfer

From: Yehyeong Lee

Date: Mon Oct 12 2026 - 21:54:52 EST


usbg_data_write_cmpl() commits the WRITE buffer to the backend as soon as
the OUT request completes successfully, looking only at req->status and
never at req->actual. A host that declares an 8192-byte WRITE but ends the
data-out after 4096 bytes still reaches target_execute_cmd() with the full
length.

The buffer is not zeroed (transport_generic_new_cmd() leaves zero_flag
clear for a data CDB), so the bytes that never arrived keep the previous
page contents, which the backend writes to the device for the host to read
back. The target core refuses a WRITE whose declared length is wrong, but
it does not see a data phase that simply falls short.

Fail the command when the data-out is short. The OUT data phase is over
once this completion runs, so clear cmd->data_len unconditionally here:
otherwise a later BOT CHECK CONDITION - from the short write, or from any
WRITE that finishes its data phase and then fails in the backend - takes it
as outstanding data and queues an OUT request to drain a host that has
already stopped, wedging the bulk pipe. Rate-limit the failure message,
which a host can now trigger at will.

There is no oops; poisoning the buffer and ending an 8192-byte write at
4096 bytes leaves 4096 stale bytes committed before the change, and after
it the command is aborted with nothing committed.

Fixes: c52661d60f63 ("usb-gadget: Initial merge of target module for UASP + BOT")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yehyeong Lee <yhlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: clear cmd->data_len unconditionally once the data phase is over, not
only on the short-write path, so a WRITE that finishes its data phase
and then fails in the backend does not wedge the bulk pipe either.
v2: fail short data-out and clear cmd->data_len; rate-limit the message.

drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c
index 9e6d4f39900a2..cf6a394c4196b 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_tcm.c
@@ -1090,8 +1090,15 @@ static void usbg_data_write_cmpl(struct usb_ep *ep, struct usb_request *req)
return;
}

- if (req->status) {
- pr_err("%s() state %d transfer failed\n", __func__, cmd->state);
+ /* the OUT data phase is over; nothing left for the status phase to drain */
+ cmd->data_len = 0;
+
+ /* a short data-out left the buffer unwritten; don't commit stale data */
+ if (req->status || req->actual != req->length) {
+ struct usb_gadget *gadget = fuas_to_gadget(cmd->fu);
+
+ dev_err_ratelimited(&gadget->dev, "%s() state %d transfer failed\n",
+ __func__, cmd->state);
goto cleanup;
}

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2.43.0