CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31723
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_subset: 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 bound 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/06524cd1c9011bee141a87e43ab878641ed3652b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70707ce668494c4d35fe070dfbc7cc541b293107 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cbc4f109bb216623894d8819fb930210ed34b21 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edb08047051883591517feb5a51bf2bfd2b769fb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fde29916e4cc736c4ca6c78f331e12b2c73ccafd Patch