[PATCH] usbip: vudc: Fix use after free bug in vudc_remove due to race condition
From: Michael Bommarito
Date: Fri Apr 17 2026 - 12:39:40 EST
This patch follows up Zheng Wang's 2023 report of a use-after-free in
vudc_remove(). The original thread stalled on Shuah Khan's request for
runtime testing of the unplug/unbind path. This patch supplies that
testing and keeps Zheng's original fix shape.
In vudc_probe(), v_init_timer() binds udc->tr_timer.timer to v_timer().
usbip_sockfd_store() starts the timer via v_start_timer()/v_kick_timer().
vudc_remove() can then free the containing struct vudc while the timer is
still pending or executing.
KASAN confirms the race on an unpatched x86_64 QEMU guest with
CONFIG_KASAN=y, CONFIG_USBIP_VUDC=y, CONFIG_USB_ZERO=y, and a tight loop
that repeatedly writes a socket fd to usbip_sockfd, closes the socket
pair, and unbinds/rebinds usbip-vudc.0:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __run_timer_base.part.0+0x8ba/0x8e0
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888001b80740 by task trigger_and_unb/239
Allocated by task 239:
vudc_probe+0x4d/0xaa0
Freed by task 239:
kfree+0x18f/0x520
device_release_driver_internal+0x388/0x540
unbind_store+0xd9/0x100
This lands in the timer core rather than v_timer() itself because the
embedded timer_list is being walked after its containing struct vudc has
already been freed. The underlying lifetime bug is the same one Zheng
reported.
With v_stop_timer() called from vudc_remove() and the timer deleted
synchronously, the same harness completed 5000 bind/unbind iterations
with no KASAN report.
Fixes: b6a0ca111867 ("usbip: vudc: Add UDC specific ops")
Reported-by: Zheng Wang <zyytlz.wz@xxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20230317100954.2626573-1-zyytlz.wz@xxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_transfer.c | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c
index 90383107b660..c5f079c5a1ea 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_dev.c
@@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ void vudc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct vudc *udc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+ v_stop_timer(udc);
usb_del_gadget_udc(&udc->gadget);
cleanup_vudc_hw(udc);
kfree(udc);
diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_transfer.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_transfer.c
index a4f02ea3e3ef..d4ce85c4c6a2 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_transfer.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vudc_transfer.c
@@ -490,7 +490,8 @@ void v_stop_timer(struct vudc *udc)
{
struct transfer_timer *t = &udc->tr_timer;
- /* timer itself will take care of stopping */
+ /* Delete the timer synchronously before teardown frees udc. */
dev_dbg(&udc->pdev->dev, "timer stop");
+ timer_delete_sync(&t->timer);
t->state = VUDC_TR_STOPPED;
}
--
2.53.0