CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31725
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_ecm: 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/4e34f3f491fd731809b57ddb5329ec763bd39553 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5eaeac22240d965d24c3bd0c54ded64efd8f6ca1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b1e5589593293c78a2ab8bb118a41e2271a2af8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2cc4fae67a51f60d81d6af2678696accb07c656 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdc3aa4c23d3e0ed781ca0e10213c645e445cc03 git.kernel.org