[PATCH RFC] usb: gadgetfs: fix reference count underflow in gadgetfs_bind()

A KASAN slab-use-after-free bug was found in gadgetfs_kill_sb():

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in put_dev
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:165 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in gadgetfs_kill_sb+0x46/0x110
drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2104
Write of size 4 at addr ffff88811638c080 by task syz-executor169/5848

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5848 Comm: syz-executor169 Not tainted
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description+0x55/0x1e0 mm/kasan/report.c:378
 print_report+0x58/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:482
 kasan_report+0x117/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
 kasan_check_range+0x264/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
 atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400
 [inline]
 __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:389 [inline]
 __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:432 [inline]
 refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:450 [inline]
 put_dev drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:165 [inline]
 gadgetfs_kill_sb+0x46/0x110 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2104
 deactivate_locked_super+0xbc/0x130 fs/super.c:477
 cleanup_mnt+0x3d3/0x460 fs/namespace.c:1317
 task_work_run+0x1d9/0x270 kernel/task_work.c:233

The root cause is a reference count underflow in the error handling path of
gadgetfs_bind(). When gadgetfs_bind() encounters an error (e.g., memory
allocation failure), it jumps to the enomem label and calls
gadgetfs_unbind(). However, gadgetfs_unbind() is designed to tear down a
fully initialized and bound gadget, and unconditionally drops a device
reference by calling put_dev(dev). Since gadgetfs_bind() only acquires this
reference (get_dev(dev)) at the very end of the function upon complete
success, calling gadgetfs_unbind() in the error path drops a reference that
was never taken.

This leads to a premature free of the dev structure when the ep0 file is
closed, and subsequently a use-after-free when the filesystem is unmounted
and gadgetfs_kill_sb() tries to drop the initial reference.

To fix this, stop calling the full teardown function gadgetfs_unbind() from
the gadgetfs_bind() error path. Instead, manually and locally clean up only
the specific state that was successfully altered before the failure
occurred.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.5-flash Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview syzbot
Reported-by: [email protected]
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=4a5c87a01894ca37f25c
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/ai_job?id=d40043f8-d813-4477-b6e2-0f071c04be7c
To: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Christian Brauner" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jan Kara" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kees Cook" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Mateusz Guzik" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Al Viro" <[email protected]>

---
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
index d87a8ab51..365f9ab4d 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c
@@ -1700,7 +1700,13 @@ static int gadgetfs_bind(struct usb_gadget *gadget,
 	return 0;
 
 enomem:
-	gadgetfs_unbind (gadget);
+	if (dev->req) {
+		usb_ep_free_request(gadget->ep0, dev->req);
+		dev->req = NULL;
+	}
+	gadget->ep0->driver_data = NULL;
+	dev->gadget = NULL;
+	set_gadget_data(gadget, NULL);
 	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 


base-commit: 075b74841bd0065a3bda3440873c747938e69b68
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