CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89738
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: at91_udc: drain polled-VBUS timer/work before udc is freed
In polled-VBUS mode (board.vbus_pin && board.vbus_polled), probe arms a
self-restarting cycle: at91_vbus_timer() schedules vbus_timer_work, and
at91_vbus_timer_work() calls at91_vbus_update() and re-arms the timer via
mod_timer(). Both recover the same udc through container_of and dereference
it on every iteration.
Neither teardown path cancels this cycle. udc is devm-allocated, so it is
freed after at91udc_remove() returns, and is likewise freed when probe
fails and devres runs. A timer callback or work item that is pending or
running at either point dereferences the freed udc.
Add at91_udc_shutdown_vbus_timer() and call it from at91udc_remove() and
from the usb_add_gadget_udc() failure path in probe; the remaining probe
error paths fail before the timer is armed. timer_shutdown_sync() waits
for a running callback and clears timer->function, which makes the work
handler's mod_timer() a permanent no-op; cancel_work_sync() then drains
any pending or running work whose re-arm attempt now does nothing. The
timer must be shut down first, since cancelling the work alone would let
the timer re-queue it. The guard mirrors probe: in IRQ mode the timer and
work_struct are never initialized.
This does not require a fault; a normal driver unbind can interleave with
an already queued work item.
This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51a311eb97e91ce1aed3005cb71ccb2e30f8cce8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/557ef547d49ff5e6026a4d39bdd3113bd81d7688 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/723d73b245843d4fff4c3f42e857c78c2b2d414e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2a602cb1e28d76a5398cec3fa21b0110385f501 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c27d13ce4bab80fbdf6523928071b6c24b37606c git.kernel.org