Bug 2555098 (CVE-2026-98765) - CVE-2026-98765 kernel: USB: gadget: dummy-hcd: Fix wait for outstanding request completions
Summary: CVE-2026-98765 kernel: USB: gadget: dummy-hcd: Fix wait for outstanding reque...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98765
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:54 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 05:32 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:54:18 UTC
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.


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