In current scenario if Plug-out and Plug-In performed continuously there could be a chance while checking for dwc->gadget_driver in dwc3_gadget_suspend, a NULL pointer dereference may occur. Call Stack: CPU1: CPU2: gadget_unbind_driver dwc3_suspend_common dw3_gadget_stop dwc3_gadget_suspend dwc3_disconnect_gadget CPU1 basically clears the variable and CPU2 checks the variable. Consider CPU1 is running and right before gadget_driver is cleared and in parallel CPU2 executes dwc3_gadget_suspend where it finds dwc->gadget_driver which is not NULL and resumes execution and then CPU1 completes execution. CPU2 executes dwc3_disconnect_gadget where it checks dwc->gadget_driver is already NULL because of which the NULL pointer deference occur. To prevent this, moving NULL pointer check inside of spin_lock. Signed-off-by: Uttkarsh Aggarwal <quic_uaggarwa@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c index 019368f8e9c4..564976b3e2b9 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.c @@ -4709,15 +4709,13 @@ int dwc3_gadget_suspend(struct dwc3 *dwc) unsigned long flags; int ret; - if (!dwc->gadget_driver) - return 0; - ret = dwc3_gadget_soft_disconnect(dwc); if (ret) goto err; spin_lock_irqsave(&dwc->lock, flags); - dwc3_disconnect_gadget(dwc); + if (dwc->gadget_driver) + dwc3_disconnect_gadget(dwc); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dwc->lock, flags); return 0; -- 2.17.1