[PATCH] net/9p/usbg: fix prefix matching in device lookup

Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Jun 2026 20:19:04 +0800
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.v9fs,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
p9_usbg_create() matches the mount source against registered usb9pfs
instance tags with strncmp() and the length of the caller supplied source.
That accepts any prefix of the registered tag.

For example, a gadget instance tagged "secret_channel" can be selected with
"s", "sec", or any other non-empty prefix.  Once selected, the instance is
marked in use and the client is attached to that transport.  This differs
from the configfs tag lookup path, which uses strcmp() and therefore
requires an exact tag match.

Require an exact tag match in p9_usbg_create() as well.

Fixes: a3be076dc174 ("net/9p/usbg: Add new usb gadget function transport")
Cc: [email protected]
Reported-by: Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Yuxiang Yang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Ao Wang <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Xuewei Feng <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Qi Li <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Ke Xu <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: GLM:GLM-5.1
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Zhao <[email protected]>
---
 net/9p/trans_usbg.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/9p/trans_usbg.c b/net/9p/trans_usbg.c
index 1ce70338999c..8c66795f2853 100644
--- a/net/9p/trans_usbg.c
+++ b/net/9p/trans_usbg.c
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ static int p9_usbg_create(struct p9_client *client, struct fs_context *fc)
 	guard(mutex)(&usb9pfs_lock);
 
 	list_for_each_entry(dev, &usbg_instance_list, usb9pfs_instance) {
-		if (!strncmp(devname, dev->tag, strlen(devname))) {
+		if (!strcmp(devname, dev->tag)) {
 			if (!dev->inuse) {
 				dev->inuse = true;
 				found = 1;
-- 
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