[PATCH v3] usb: gadget: u_serial: fix stale req->dep warn on disconnect/reconnect

From: Daehwan Jung

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 01:16:47 EST


When DWC3_EP_DELAY_STOP defers ENDXFER, giveback of -ESHUTDOWN requests
arrives after gserial_disconnect(). These stale requests then accumulate
in read_pool via gs_rx_push(). After gadget exit frees the old endpoint,
req->dep becomes a dangling pointer. On the next gserial_connect(),
gs_start_rx() queues these stale requests onto a new endpoint, triggering:

WARNING: CPU: 0 at drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c:1990
request 00000000e6e350a5 belongs to ''

Call trace:
dwc3_gadget_ep_queue+0x158/0x1e8
usb_ep_queue+0x60/0xe8
gs_start_rx+0xa4/0x128
gs_start_io+0x128/0x254
gserial_connect+0xb4/0x14c
acm_set_alt+0xa0/0x114
set_config+0x22c/0x384
composite_setup+0x37c/0xc7c
configfs_composite_setup+0x5c/0x88
dwc3_ep0_interrupt+0x6c8/0xbcc
dwc3_thread_interrupt+0xa0/0x1284
irq_thread_fn+0x48/0xa8
irq_thread+0x150/0x31c
kthread+0x150/0x27c
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Fix by discarding -ESHUTDOWN requests immediately in gs_read_complete()
while ep is still valid, preventing stale reqs from entering read_pool.

Fixes: 937ef73d5075 ("USB: serial gadget: rx path data loss fixes")
Signed-off-by: Daehwan Jung <dh10.jung@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Add missing version tag in subject
Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20260727042632.1726391-1-dh10.jung@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Changes in v2:
- Correct the name of author
- Modify commit subject (panic -> warn)
Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260721013509.2327242-1-dh10.jung@xxxxxxxxxxx/
---
drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c
index cdd1dfc666c4..97ee1b9cb065 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_serial.c
@@ -459,10 +459,22 @@ static void gs_read_complete(struct usb_ep *ep, struct usb_request *req)
{
struct gs_port *port = ep->driver_data;

- /* Queue all received data until the tty layer is ready for it. */
spin_lock(&port->port_lock);
- list_add_tail(&req->list, &port->read_queue);
- schedule_delayed_work(&port->push, 0);
+ if (req->status == -ESHUTDOWN) {
+ /*
+ * Discard shutdown completions here while ep is still valid.
+ * Returning them to read_pool after gserial_disconnect() has
+ * reset the counters causes stale reqs (with req->dep pointing
+ * to the old ep) to be queued onto a new ep at reconnect time,
+ * triggering a req->dep != dep WARN.
+ */
+ gs_free_req(ep, req);
+ port->read_started--;
+ } else {
+ /* Queue all received data until the tty layer is ready for it. */
+ list_add_tail(&req->list, &port->read_queue);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&port->push, 0);
+ }
spin_unlock(&port->port_lock);
}

--
2.34.1