This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: dwc2: fix possible NULL pointer dereference caused by driver concurrency to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: usb-dwc2-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference-cause.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3c27f6cdb62a27859a77a7b93c1de7c20ecc7415 Author: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 26 10:44:04 2023 +0800 usb: dwc2: fix possible NULL pointer dereference caused by driver concurrency [ Upstream commit ef307bc6ef04e8c1ea843231db58e3afaafa9fa6 ] In _dwc2_hcd_urb_enqueue(), "urb->hcpriv = NULL" is executed without holding the lock "hsotg->lock". In _dwc2_hcd_urb_dequeue(): spin_lock_irqsave(&hsotg->lock, flags); ... if (!urb->hcpriv) { dev_dbg(hsotg->dev, "## urb->hcpriv is NULL ##\n"); goto out; } rc = dwc2_hcd_urb_dequeue(hsotg, urb->hcpriv); // Use urb->hcpriv ... out: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hsotg->lock, flags); When _dwc2_hcd_urb_enqueue() and _dwc2_hcd_urb_dequeue() are concurrently executed, the NULL check of "urb->hcpriv" can be executed before "urb->hcpriv = NULL". After urb->hcpriv is NULL, it can be used in the function call to dwc2_hcd_urb_dequeue(), which can cause a NULL pointer dereference. This possible bug is found by an experimental static analysis tool developed by myself. This tool analyzes the locking APIs to extract function pairs that can be concurrently executed, and then analyzes the instructions in the paired functions to identify possible concurrency bugs including data races and atomicity violations. The above possible bug is reported, when my tool analyzes the source code of Linux 6.5. To fix this possible bug, "urb->hcpriv = NULL" should be executed with holding the lock "hsotg->lock". After using this patch, my tool never reports the possible bug, with the kernelconfiguration allyesconfig for x86_64. Because I have no associated hardware, I cannot test the patch in runtime testing, and just verify it according to the code logic. Fixes: 33ad261aa62b ("usb: dwc2: host: spinlock urb_enqueue") Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926024404.832096-1-baijiaju@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c b/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c index a412ef67af18d..7b8dee3087f35 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c +++ b/drivers/usb/dwc2/hcd.c @@ -4684,8 +4684,8 @@ static int _dwc2_hcd_urb_enqueue(struct usb_hcd *hcd, struct urb *urb, if (qh_allocated && qh->channel && qh->channel->qh == qh) qh->channel->qh = NULL; fail2: - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hsotg->lock, flags); urb->hcpriv = NULL; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hsotg->lock, flags); kfree(qtd); fail1: if (qh_allocated) {