CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31722
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: f_rndis: Fix net_device lifecycle with device_move
The net_device is allocated during function instance creation and
registered during the bind phase with the gadget device as its sysfs
parent. When the function unbinds, the parent device is destroyed, but
the net_device survives, resulting in dangling sysfs symlinks:
console:/ # ls -l /sys/class/net/usb0
lrwxrwxrwx ... /sys/class/net/usb0 ->
/sys/devices/platform/.../gadget.0/net/usb0
console:/ # ls -l /sys/devices/platform/.../gadget.0/net/usb0
ls: .../gadget.0/net/usb0: No such file or directory
Use device_move() to reparent the net_device between the gadget device
tree and /sys/devices/virtual across bind and unbind cycles. During the
final unbind, calling device_move(NULL) moves the net_device to the
virtual device tree before the gadget device is destroyed. On rebinding,
device_move() reparents the device back under the new gadget, ensuring
proper sysfs topology and power management ordering.
To maintain compatibility with legacy composite drivers (e.g., multi.c),
the borrowed_net flag is used to indicate whether the network device is
shared and pre-registered during the legacy driver's bind phase.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 6.12.81)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.22)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.12)
• linux linux kernel 7.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18ada801899f2b13ef0ceff42427ad980a41e619 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ef251aa63972fe6c0f107f5abd139b7d0f7987a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6045ea5ca6e3fa13f8a9fafb1c535c86e124c14d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9701a98f4459b52558f683b6b12a6feb6f17b255 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e367599529dc42578545a7f85fde517b35b3cda7 Patch