This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: cdc-wdm: close race between read and workqueue to the 5.10-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-cdc-wdm-close-race-between-read-and-workqueue.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 339f83612f3a569b194680768b22bf113c26a29d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:50:48 +0100 Subject: usb: cdc-wdm: close race between read and workqueue From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> commit 339f83612f3a569b194680768b22bf113c26a29d upstream. wdm_read() cannot race with itself. However, in service_outstanding_interrupt() it can race with the workqueue, which can be triggered by error handling. Hence we need to make sure that the WDM_RESPONDING flag is not just only set but tested. Fixes: afba937e540c9 ("USB: CDC WDM driver") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240314115132.3907-1-oneukum@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c +++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c @@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ out_free_mem: static int service_outstanding_interrupt(struct wdm_device *desc) { int rv = 0; + int used; /* submit read urb only if the device is waiting for it */ if (!desc->resp_count || !--desc->resp_count) @@ -485,7 +486,10 @@ static int service_outstanding_interrupt goto out; } - set_bit(WDM_RESPONDING, &desc->flags); + used = test_and_set_bit(WDM_RESPONDING, &desc->flags); + if (used) + goto out; + spin_unlock_irq(&desc->iuspin); rv = usb_submit_urb(desc->response, GFP_KERNEL); spin_lock_irq(&desc->iuspin); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oneukum@xxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/usb-cdc-wdm-close-race-between-read-and-workqueue.patch