CVE-2025-68282

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: gadget: udc: fix use-after-free in usb_gadget_state_work

A race condition during gadget teardown can lead to a use-after-free in usb_gadget_state_work(), as reported by KASAN:

BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in sysfs_notify+0x2c/0xd0 Workqueue: events usb_gadget_state_work

The fundamental race occurs because a concurrent event (e.g., an interrupt) can call usb_gadget_set_state() and schedule gadget->work at any time during the cleanup process in usb_del_gadget().

Commit 399a45e5237c (usb: gadget: core: flush gadget workqueue after device removal) attempted to fix this by moving flush_work() to after device_del(). However, this does not fully solve the race, as a new work item can still be scheduled after flush_work() completes but before the gadgets memory is freed, leading to the same use-after-free.

This patch fixes the race condition robustly by introducing a teardown flag and a state_lock spinlock to the usb_gadget struct. The flag is set during cleanup in usb_del_gadget() before calling flush_work() to prevent any new work from being scheduled once cleanup has commenced. The scheduling site, usb_gadget_set_state(), now checks this flag under the lock before queueing the work, thus safely closing the race window.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10014310193cf6736c1aeb4105c5f4a0818d0c65
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b32caa73d135eea8fb9cabb45e9fc64c5a3ecb9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/baeb66fbd4201d1c4325074e78b1f557dff89b5b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c12a0c3ef815ddd67e47f9c819f9fe822fed5467
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f02a412c0a18f02f0f91b0a3d9788315a721b7fd