[PATCH v2 0/3] driver core: parent lock fixes

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Wed Oct 14 2026 - 09:37:18 EST


Mario Peter reported that USB interfaces may be probed without holding
the parent USB device lock during asynchronous and deferred probe.

This series addresses both cases, while fixing a long-standing
use-after-free issue with the parent lock implementation stemming from
the fact that the driver core does not necessarily hold a reference to
the parent device when taking its lock.

Johan


Changes in v2:
- fix the parent lock UAF issue (new patch)
- include my update of Mario's fix as it also depends on the UAF fix [1]


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261013140408.1226841-1-johan@xxxxxxxxxx/


Johan Hovold (2):
driver core: fix parent lock use-after-free on USB disconnect
driver core: take parent lock on deferred probe

Mario Peter (1):
driver core: take parent lock in async device attach

drivers/base/base.h | 1 +
drivers/base/bus.c | 32 +++++++++----
drivers/base/dd.c | 92 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 1 -
drivers/usb/core/message.c | 1 +
include/linux/device.h | 5 +++
include/linux/device/bus.h | 3 --
7 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

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