CVE-2025-68282

usb: gadget: udc: fix use-after-free in usb_gadget_state_work

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 16, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 16, 2025

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: gadget: udc: fix use-after-free in usb_gadget_state_work

A race condition during gadget teardown can lead to a use-after-free in usb_gadget_state_work(), as reported by KASAN:

BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in sysfs_notify+0x2c/0xd0 Workqueue: events usb_gadget_state_work

The fundamental race occurs because a concurrent event (e.g., an interrupt) can call usb_gadget_set_state() and schedule gadget->work at any time during the cleanup process in usb_del_gadget().

Commit 399a45e5237c ("usb: gadget: core: flush gadget workqueue after device removal") attempted to fix this by moving flush_work() to after device_del(). However, this does not fully solve the race, as a new work item can still be scheduled *after* flush_work() completes but before the gadget's memory is freed, leading to the same use-after-free.

This patch fixes the race condition robustly by introducing a 'teardown' flag and a 'state_lock' spinlock to the usb_gadget struct. The flag is set during cleanup in usb_del_gadget() *before* calling flush_work() to prevent any new work from being scheduled once cleanup has commenced. The scheduling site, usb_gadget_set_state(), now checks this flag under the lock before queueing the work, thus safely closing the race window.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15 to before dddc944d65169b552e09cb54e3ed4fbb9ea26416Affected
  • 5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15 to before eee16f3ff08e759ea828bdf7dc1c0ef2f22134f5Affected
  • 5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15 to before c12a0c3ef815ddd67e47f9c819f9fe822fed5467Affected
  • 5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15 to before f02a412c0a18f02f0f91b0a3d9788315a721b7fdAffected
  • 5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15 to before 10014310193cf6736c1aeb4105c5f4a0818d0c65Affected
  • 5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15 to before 3b32caa73d135eea8fb9cabb45e9fc64c5a3ecb9Affected
  • 5702f75375aa9ecf8ad3431aef3fe6ce8c8dbd15 to before baeb66fbd4201d1c4325074e78b1f557dff89b5bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.12Affected
  • before 3.12Not affected
  • 5.10.248 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.198 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.159 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.119 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.61 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.17.11 through 6.17.*Not affected
  • 6.18 and laterNot affected

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