CVE-2026-90024 PUBLISHED

usb: gadget: midi2: Fix null-pointer dereference in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 16.09.2026 Updated: 16.09.2026

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

usb: gadget: midi2: Fix null-pointer dereference in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs

A null-pointer dereference occurs in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() when attempting to clean up an endpoint that was never initialized.

When configuring the MIDI 2.0 gadget via configfs and setting the block direction to SNDRV_UMP_DIR_INPUT, the initialization of the midi1_ep_out endpoint is explicitly skipped during the gadget bind phase (f_midi2_bind()). As a result, the usb_ep->card field remains NULL.

Later, when the host sets the alternate setting, f_midi2_set_alt() unconditionally stops both the IN and OUT endpoints by calling f_midi2_stop_eps(), which in turn calls f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() for both endpoints. When f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() is called for the uninitialized midi1_ep_out, it attempts to dereference usb_ep->card to determine the number of requests to free, leading to a crash.

Fix this by using usb_ep->num_reqs instead of usb_ep->card->info.num_reqs in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs(). usb_ep->num_reqs is correctly set during f_midi2_init_ep() and remains 0 if the endpoint was never initialized, safely avoiding the loop. For consistency, apply the same change to f_midi2_alloc_ep_reqs().

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000ee: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000770-0x0000000000000777] ... RIP: 0010:f_midi2_free_ep_reqs drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1166 [inline] RIP: 0010:f_midi2_stop_eps+0x28e/0x4d0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1246 ... Call Trace: <TASK> f_midi2_set_alt+0x11c/0xf00 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1296 composite_setup+0x1ffd/0x3480 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:1933 configfs_composite_setup+0xbd/0x100 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1877

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87 to 51ddc55c75087ac25342f6d73d3aeaf14f59bd76 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87 to 5b92f6a0c7c01efbb335d837ecdf34d38d98720f (excl.)
  • affected from 8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87 to 9c3d5091e3568ed48ac4c5b08a78eb06fad0d70a (excl.)
  • affected from 8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87 to 4079f19a0e1ce76f1e21a398f02aca150ceaaf61 (excl.)
  • affected from 8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87 to f0efaf1872949e96d213c8e910fd9517f7d7c406 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.51 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.5 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc2 to * (incl.)

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