[PATCH 0/6] usbip: vhci_hcd: fix URB giveback leaks and disconnect races
From: Raul E Rangel
Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 11:11:18 EST
This series fixes a set of URB lifecycle, locking, and disconnect
teardown bugs in drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd that can orphan pending URBs
and wedge usb_kill_urb() and usb_hub_wq in uninterruptible D state when
a virtual USB port disconnects under concurrent transfer/unlink load.
Patch breakdown:
1. Protect urb->hcpriv accesses in vhci_urb_dequeue() with
vdev->priv_lock inside vhci->lock (matching vhci_urb_enqueue() and
the cleanup helpers), and add a !portnum || portnum > VHCI_HC_PORTS
bounds guard to both vhci_urb_enqueue() and vhci_urb_dequeue().
2. Track whether an URB has been moved from vdev->priv_tx to
vdev->priv_rx via priv->submitted under vdev->priv_lock, and
complete unsent (!priv->submitted) URBs locally in
vhci_urb_dequeue() instead of queuing a CMD_UNLINK PDU. This
prevents vhci_device_unlink_cleanup() from freeing the unlink entry
and orphaning an unsent URB on priv_tx, and prevents CMD_UNLINK
from being transmitted before CMD_SUBMIT on an active connection.
3. Clear vdev->ud.tcp_socket under vhci->lock and vdev->ud.lock in
vhci_shutdown_connection(), reject vhci_urb_enqueue() once
USBIP_EH_SHUTDOWN is set or tcp_socket is NULL, and drain all
remaining URBs on vdev->priv_tx and vdev->priv_rx in
vhci_device_unlink_cleanup().
4. Move the URB_DMA_MAP_SG clearing from vhci_recv_ret_submit() into
pickup_urb_and_free_priv() and also clear URB_DMA_MAP_SG in
vhci_urb_dequeue() and vhci_cleanup_priv_list() so USB core does
not call dma_unmap_sg() on unmapped scatterlists on any giveback
path.
5. Allocate struct vhci_priv with mem_flags before acquiring spinlocks
in vhci_urb_enqueue(), and return 0 (with VDEV_EVENT_ERROR_MALLOC
triggered) if struct vhci_unlink allocation fails in
vhci_urb_dequeue() after usb_hcd_check_unlink_urb() has already
marked urb->unlinked.
6. Serialize vdev->udev clearing in vhci_device_reset() under
vhci->lock and ud->lock (dropping old usb_device and socket
references outside the spinlocks in both vhci_device_reset() and
vhci_urb_enqueue()), and reject URBs from a stale usb_device
(including address-0 requests from an already-registered
usb_device undergoing USBDEVFS_RESET) if the same rhport is
re-attached before usb_hub_wq finishes disconnecting the old
device.
Testing:
- Built at every commit in the series with W=1 (0 warnings, 0 errors).
- Verified under User-Mode Linux (ARCH=um, UP with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y,
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y, CONFIG_KASAN=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y,
CONFIG_USBIP_VHCI_HCD=y, CONFIG_USBIP_DEBUG=y):
* Test 1: Abrupt server disconnect mid-transfer while client threads
loop 32 KiB scatter-gather (num_sgs=2, URB_DMA_MAP_SG) SUBMITURB,
DISCARDURB, USBDEVFS_CONTROL, and USBDEVFS_RESET (5/5 cycles,
0 D-state tasks).
* Test 2: 500 rapid SUBMITURB + DISCARDURB + REAPURB iterations on a
live connection, plus deterministic verification with a stalled
tx socket that unlinking 40 unsent URBs on priv_tx completes them
locally with 0 CMD_UNLINK PDUs sent on the wire.
* Test 3: Immediate detach + re-attach on the same rhport while a
client thread submits URBs on the old usbfs fd, confirming all
stale submits fail with -ENODEV and 0 stale CMD_SUBMIT packets
reach the new server.
* Test 3B: Deterministic reproduction of the field deadlock sequence
(unsent URB queued on priv_tx while tcp_socket != NULL, followed
by concurrent USBDEVFS_RESET and server socket close), completing
with 0 D-state tasks.
* Test 4: Lockdep (debug_locks = 1) and KASAN clean across all runs.
- Built and soaked for 18.5+ hours (280 cycles) on an SMP gLinux host
(7.1.6-1rodete1-amd64) where the original usb_disconnect() /
usb_kill_urb() deadlock was captured, completing 125,000+ EP0
control transfers, 21,000+ async URB unlinks, 8+ GiB of
scatter-gather USB Mass Storage bulk reads, 1,000+ mid-transfer
SIGKILL client aborts, and 850+ live USB/IP socket disconnect
teardowns and port re-attachments under active load with 0 kernel
warnings and 0 hung tasks.
Raul E Rangel (6):
usbip: vhci_hcd: protect urb->hcpriv with priv_lock in
vhci_urb_dequeue()
usbip: vhci_hcd: complete unsent URBs locally in vhci_urb_dequeue()
usbip: vhci_hcd: stop enqueue and drain all pending URBs on disconnect
usbip: vhci_hcd: clear URB_DMA_MAP_SG on all giveback paths
usbip: vhci_hcd: allocate vhci_priv outside lock and handle ENOMEM
usbip: vhci_hcd: reject URBs from stale usb_device after port
re-attach
drivers/usb/usbip/vhci.h | 1 +
drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_hcd.c | 236 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_tx.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
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