This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: misc: lvs: fix race condition in disconnect handling to the 4.9-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-misc-lvs-fix-race-condition-in-disconnect-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sun Mar 18 16:55:33 CET 2018 From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:05:07 +0100 Subject: usb: misc: lvs: fix race condition in disconnect handling From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c4ba329cabca7c839ab48fb58b5bcc2582951a48 ] There is a small window during which the an URB may remain active after disconnect has returned. If in that case already freed memory may be accessed and executed. The fix is to poison the URB befotre the work is flushed. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/lvstest.c @@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ static void lvs_rh_disconnect(struct usb struct lvs_rh *lvs = usb_get_intfdata(intf); sysfs_remove_group(&intf->dev.kobj, &lvs_attr_group); + usb_poison_urb(lvs->urb); /* used in scheduled work */ flush_work(&lvs->rh_work); usb_free_urb(lvs->urb); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oneukum@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/usb-misc-lvs-fix-race-condition-in-disconnect-handling.patch