CVE-2026-43324

USB: dummy-hcd: Fix interrupt synchronization error

High · published May 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: dummy-hcd: Fix interrupt synchronization error

This fixes an error in synchronization in the dummy-hcd driver. The

error has a somewhat involved history. The synchronization mechanism

was introduced by commit 7dbd8f4cabd9 ("USB: dummy-hcd: Fix erroneous

synchronization change"), which added an emulated "interrupts enabled"

flag together with code emulating synchronize_irq() (it waits until

all current handler callbacks have returned).

But the emulated interrupt-disable occurred too late, after the driver

containing the handler callback routines had been told that it was

unbound and no more callbacks would occur. Commit 4a5d797a9f9c ("usb:

gadget: dummy_hcd: fix gpf in gadget_setup") tried to fix this by

moving the synchronize_irq() emulation code from dummy_stop() to

dummy_pullup(), which runs before the unbind callback.

There still were races, though, because the emulated interrupt-disable

still occurred too late. It couldn't be moved to dummy_pullup(),

because that routine can be called for reasons other than an impending

unbind. Therefore commits 7dc0c55e9f30 ("USB: UDC core: Add

udc_async_callbacks gadget op") and 04145a03db9d ("USB: UDC: Implement

udc_async_callbacks in dummy-hcd") added an API allowing the UDC core

to tell dummy-hcd exactly when emulated interrupts and their callbacks

should be disabled.

That brings us to the current state of things, which is still wrong

because the emulated synchronize_irq() occurs before the emulated

interrupt-disable! That's no good, beause it means that more emulated

interrupts can occur after the synchronize_irq() emulation has run,

leading to the possibility that a callback handler may be running when

the gadget driver is unbound.

To fix this, we have to move the synchronize_irq() emulation code yet

again, to the dummy_udc_async_callbacks() routine, which takes care of

enabling and disabling emulated interrupt requests. The

synchronization will now run immediately after emulated interrupts are

disabled, which is where it belongs.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00176 · 6.8th percentile
Published
2026-05-08T13:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 13:31Z
    USB: dummy-hcd: Fix interrupt synchronization error
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