CVE-2026-90044

usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix Use-After-Free in AIO error path

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix Use-After-Free in AIO error path

In ffs_epfile_write_iter() and ffs_epfile_read_iter(), when ffs_epfile_io() fails with an error other than -EIOCBQUEUED, the io_data structure (`p`) is freed. However, for AIO operations, the kiocb cancel function was already armed and kiocb->private was set to `p`.

If a concurrent cancel operation (such as sys_io_cancel()) executes after ffs_epfile_io() fails but before the function frees `p`, a Use-After-Free can occur when the cancellation handler accesses the freed pointer.

To securely fix this race condition, we must properly un-arm the cancellation. Invoking `kiocb->ki_complete()` does exactly this by acquiring `ctx->ctx_lock` and safely removing the kiocb from the active sequence. In doing so, it ensures that a parallel io_cancel can no longer discover the kiocb, effectively closing the race window.

We then return -EIOCBQUEUED to notify the VFS layer that the kiocb has been consumed and it should avoid attempting to complete the request again or triggering subsequent completion handlers.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • de2080d41b5d584205e408d72021f0f335a046fc to before 922a29e1f8573fd405eea1a73a52112c4e7fcfc4Affected
  • de2080d41b5d584205e408d72021f0f335a046fc to before 0a2f71ccf9c2053de725e9a7922d081f3f3a3804Affected
  • de2080d41b5d584205e408d72021f0f335a046fc to before b5f0e80a03e87bd932487e03248eae3ba3ed7b45Affected
  • de2080d41b5d584205e408d72021f0f335a046fc to before 153b5ecd29ed055562400bc17c91df3fd869b0ceAffected
  • de2080d41b5d584205e408d72021f0f335a046fc to before 4a2fb2d12b87b43724230abb52a1440617c7b6ccAffected
  • de2080d41b5d584205e408d72021f0f335a046fc to before e78dcb1f7ec271449c54984dc90c62a5ba272de7Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.0Affected
  • before 4.0Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.111 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.5 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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