[PATCH] usb: typec: thunderbolt: Disable work before freeing tbt on remove

Fan Wu <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 01:49:59 +0000
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-usb,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
tbt_altmode_remove() drops the plug and cable references without
draining tbt->work. The work function dereferences those references,
and can also requeue itself in its error path. The VDM callbacks can
queue the same work item.

Disable and drain tbt->work before dropping the references. This waits
for an existing invocation and prevents subsequent schedule_work()
calls from queueing it during teardown.

This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool and confirmed
by manual code review.

Fixes: 100e25738659 ("usb: typec: Add driver for Thunderbolt 3 Alternate Mode")
Cc: [email protected]
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6
Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/thunderbolt.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/thunderbolt.c b/drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/thunderbolt.c
index 32250b942..601d39ee1 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/thunderbolt.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/altmodes/thunderbolt.c
@@ -303,6 +303,8 @@ static void tbt_altmode_remove(struct typec_altmode *alt)
 {
 	struct tbt_altmode *tbt = typec_altmode_get_drvdata(alt);
 
+	disable_work_sync(&tbt->work);
+
 	for (int i = TYPEC_PLUG_SOP_PP; i >= 0; --i) {
 		if (tbt->plug[i])
 			typec_altmode_put_plug(tbt->plug[i]);
-- 
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