CVE-2026-98765 PUBLISHED

USB: gadget: dummy-hcd: Fix wait for outstanding request completions

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

USB: gadget: dummy-hcd: Fix wait for outstanding request completions

The dummy-hcd driver emulates synchronize_irq() by waiting until its private callback_usage counter drops to 0 (with the private lock not held). This counter is incremented whenever a gadget driver callback occurs (which requires the private lock to be dropped), but not when a request completion handler is called.

This is an oversight. Request completion is triggered by timer interrupts (emulating device IRQs in a real UDC), and the interrupt handlers are supposed to have completed when the synchronize_irq() emulation routine returns -- they aren't supposed to be in the middle of a completion callback. If this happens it can lead to a gadget driver's unbind routine running before all outstanding request completions have finished, maybe even allowing the gadget driver's module to be unloaded while a completion handler is still running.

Fix the oversight by incrementing the callback_usage value across request completion callbacks.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 to 7ce4dca0d53b1c3cb2b7e7bb2e42bf5db860caf2 (excl.)
  • affected from 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 to 5298c96bf0068f3160969f7ddad81976d01a9b66 (excl.)
  • affected from 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 to 3070806a7bc7bb36ed04a21022c09dafcc5619f4 (excl.)
  • affected from 7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81 to b263ff9b0fc5c1f371d65c4eb196b31263d039ff (excl.)
  • Version 7b416b9dac6ede26d4ca0c1a88b448b543623ff3 is affected
  • Version 8590bc1da625dd4a589eac0fc3aa3cf4f400424d is affected
  • Version a867d5b932ac4911d3f8a1e63505061b0c81f889 is affected
  • Version e84b4a008365b7edbd842a063ae28d040a98db25 is affected
  • Version e39b17143a5b5aac81f066d455e5d3a9877eb3ae is affected
  • Version 4f8ae1fcb0dfbb72a7678f81bf01fb7fc85c6715 is affected
  • affected from 3.2.97 to 3.3 (excl.)
  • affected from 3.16.52 to 3.17 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.1.46 to 4.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.4.92 to 4.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.9.55 to 4.10 (excl.)
  • affected from 4.13.6 to 4.14 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.14 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.14 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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