[PATCH usb-next v1] USB: gadget: Fix UAF on refcount inside gadgetfs_bind()
From: Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 01:22:47 EST
The UAF is triggered by the syzkaller reproducer which
forces kmalloc failure inside of usb_ep_alloc_request().
This will cause the following error path to execute:
if (!dev->req)
goto enomem;
// ...
enomem:
gadgetfs_unbind (gadget);
return -ENOMEM;
In normal case, get_dev() will be called to increment
refcounter from gadget->dev->count but in error case,
this increment is skipped and gadgetfs_unbind() will
decrement it via put_dev().
Going down the error path leads to a refcount imbalance
which will cause UAF in close()/umount() operations
due to refcount dropping below 0.
Fix this by moving get_dev() above the error paths so
that refcounter is incremented before the put_dev()
call.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Reported-by: syzbot+4a5c87a01894ca37f25c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4a5c87a01894ca37f25c
Signed-off-by: Rafael Alejandro Diaz Cruz <rafad900@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
index 3e2bce7543d4..181b19e7fc2f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
@@ -1679,6 +1679,7 @@ static int gadgetfs_bind(struct usb_gadget *gadget,
}
set_gadget_data (gadget, dev);
+ get_dev(dev);
dev->gadget = gadget;
gadget->ep0->driver_data = dev;
@@ -1696,7 +1697,6 @@ static int gadgetfs_bind(struct usb_gadget *gadget,
spin_lock_irq(&dev->lock);
dev->state = STATE_DEV_UNCONNECTED;
spin_unlock_irq(&dev->lock);
- get_dev (dev);
return 0;
enomem:
--
2.43.0