CVE-2026-43327 (GCVE-0-2026-43327)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 13:31 – Updated: 2026-05-08 13:31
VLAI?
Title
USB: dummy-hcd: Fix locking/synchronization error
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: dummy-hcd: Fix locking/synchronization error
Syzbot testing was able to provoke an addressing exception and crash
in the usb_gadget_udc_reset() routine in
drivers/usb/gadgets/udc/core.c, resulting from the fact that the
routine was called with a second ("driver") argument of NULL. The bad
caller was set_link_state() in dummy_hcd.c, and the problem arose
because of a race between a USB reset and driver unbind.
These sorts of races were not supposed to be possible; commit
7dbd8f4cabd9 ("USB: dummy-hcd: Fix erroneous synchronization change"),
along with a few followup commits, was written specifically to prevent
them. As it turns out, there are (at least) two errors remaining in
the code. Another patch will address the second error; this one is
concerned with the first.
The error responsible for the syzbot crash occurred because the
stop_activity() routine will sometimes drop and then re-acquire the
dum->lock spinlock. A call to stop_activity() occurs in
set_link_state() when handling an emulated USB reset, after the test
of dum->ints_enabled and before the increment of dum->callback_usage.
This allowed another thread (doing a driver unbind) to sneak in and
grab the spinlock, and then clear dum->ints_enabled and dum->driver.
Normally this other thread would have to wait for dum->callback_usage
to go down to 0 before it would clear dum->driver, but in this case it
didn't have to wait since dum->callback_usage had not yet been
incremented.
The fix is to increment dum->callback_usage _before_ calling
stop_activity() instead of after. Then the thread doing the unbind
will not clear dum->driver until after the call to
usb_gadget_udc_reset() safely returns and dum->callback_usage has been
decremented again.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 , < 6350c7dd33ab481ef41c931a238361490c32d15c
(git)
Affected: 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 , < cc97fb5969177cccce2e23b31298df220fc7570d (git) Affected: 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 , < 218886b2ef2dea7627d3700ab0abaf4bf9d1161f (git) Affected: 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 , < 791966f85b439b261bf19865cf1c07c065ffb4b4 (git) Affected: 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 , < 805b1833d6ed6da5086e610578a28e71bb54fbbb (git) Affected: 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 , < efbd9441f1e769a7aae1813d497cec09cbdff031 (git) Affected: 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 , < 69ab97a693251d6a6093e630060a3c744fd58524 (git) Affected: 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 , < 616a63ff495df12863692ab3f9f7b84e3fa7a66d (git) Affected: 7b416b9dac6ede26d4ca0c1a88b448b543623ff3 (git) Affected: 8590bc1da625dd4a589eac0fc3aa3cf4f400424d (git) Affected: a867d5b932ac4911d3f8a1e63505061b0c81f889 (git) Affected: e84b4a008365b7edbd842a063ae28d040a98db25 (git) Affected: e39b17143a5b5aac81f066d455e5d3a9877eb3ae (git) Affected: 4f8ae1fcb0dfbb72a7678f81bf01fb7fc85c6715 (git) |
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