[RFT PATCH] xhci: sideband: Fix race condition in sideband unregister

From: Mathias Nyman

Date: Tue Oct 28 2025 - 09:45:12 EST


Uttkarsh Aggarwal observed a kernel panic during sideband un-register
and found it was caused by a race condition between sideband unregister,
and creating sideband interrupters.
The issue occurrs when thread T1 runs uaudio_disconnect() and released
sb->xhci via sideband_unregister, while thread T2 simultaneously accessed
the now-NULL sb->xhci in xhci_sideband_create_interrupter() resulting in
a crash.

Ensure new endpoints or interrupter can't be added to a sidenband after
xhci_sideband_unregister() cleared the existing ones, and unlocked the
sideband mutex.
Reorganise code so that mutex is only taken and released once in
xhci_sideband_unregister(), and clear sb->vdev while mutex is taken.

Refuse to add endpoints or interrupter if sb->vdev is not set.
sb->vdev is set when sideband is created and registered.

Reported-by: Uttkarsh Aggarwal <uttkarsh.aggarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20251028080043.27760-1-uttkarsh.aggarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: de66754e9f80 ("xhci: sideband: add initial api to register a secondary interrupter entity")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c
index e771a476fef2..c308be9a8e9f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-sideband.c
@@ -86,6 +86,22 @@ __xhci_sideband_remove_endpoint(struct xhci_sideband *sb, struct xhci_virt_ep *e
sb->eps[ep->ep_index] = NULL;
}

+static void
+__xhci_sideband_remove_interrupter(struct xhci_sideband *sb)
+{
+ struct usb_device *udev;
+
+ if (!sb->ir)
+ return;
+
+ xhci_remove_secondary_interrupter(xhci_to_hcd(sb->xhci), sb->ir);
+ sb->ir = NULL;
+ udev = sb->vdev->udev;
+
+ if (udev->state != USB_STATE_NOTATTACHED)
+ usb_offload_put(udev);
+}
+
/* sideband api functions */

/**
@@ -132,6 +148,12 @@ xhci_sideband_add_endpoint(struct xhci_sideband *sb,
unsigned int ep_index;

mutex_lock(&sb->mutex);
+
+ if (!sb->vdev) {
+ mutex_unlock(&sb->mutex);
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+
ep_index = xhci_get_endpoint_index(&host_ep->desc);
ep = &sb->vdev->eps[ep_index];

@@ -317,6 +339,12 @@ xhci_sideband_create_interrupter(struct xhci_sideband *sb, int num_seg,
return -ENODEV;

mutex_lock(&sb->mutex);
+
+ if (!sb->vdev) {
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (sb->ir) {
ret = -EBUSY;
goto out;
@@ -352,20 +380,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xhci_sideband_create_interrupter);
void
xhci_sideband_remove_interrupter(struct xhci_sideband *sb)
{
- struct usb_device *udev;
-
- if (!sb || !sb->ir)
+ if (!sb)
return;

mutex_lock(&sb->mutex);
- xhci_remove_secondary_interrupter(xhci_to_hcd(sb->xhci), sb->ir);
-
- sb->ir = NULL;
- udev = sb->vdev->udev;
-
- if (udev->state != USB_STATE_NOTATTACHED)
- usb_offload_put(udev);
-
+ __xhci_sideband_remove_interrupter(sb);
mutex_unlock(&sb->mutex);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xhci_sideband_remove_interrupter);
@@ -465,6 +484,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xhci_sideband_register);
void
xhci_sideband_unregister(struct xhci_sideband *sb)
{
+ struct xhci_virt_device *vdev;
struct xhci_hcd *xhci;
int i;

@@ -474,16 +494,23 @@ xhci_sideband_unregister(struct xhci_sideband *sb)
xhci = sb->xhci;

mutex_lock(&sb->mutex);
+
+ vdev = sb->vdev;
+ if (!vdev)
+ return;
+
for (i = 0; i < EP_CTX_PER_DEV; i++)
if (sb->eps[i])
__xhci_sideband_remove_endpoint(sb, sb->eps[i]);
- mutex_unlock(&sb->mutex);

- xhci_sideband_remove_interrupter(sb);
+ __xhci_sideband_remove_interrupter(sb);
+
+ sb->vdev = NULL;
+ mutex_unlock(&sb->mutex);

spin_lock_irq(&xhci->lock);
sb->xhci = NULL;
- sb->vdev->sideband = NULL;
+ vdev->sideband = NULL;
spin_unlock_irq(&xhci->lock);

kfree(sb);
--
2.43.0