[PATCH] HID: sony: fix UAF of ghl_poke_timer / ghl_urb at driver unbind
From: Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-24 13:42:40
Also in:
lkml, stable
Subsystem:
hid core layer, the rest · Maintainers:
Jiri Kosina, Benjamin Tissoires, Linus Torvalds
For GHL (Guitar Hero Live) dongles, sony_probe() arms a periodic timer: ghl_magic_poke() (the timer callback) submits sc->ghl_urb, and the URB completion ghl_magic_poke_cb() re-arms the timer with mod_timer(). sony_remove() drained the timer with timer_delete_sync() and then freed the URB with usb_free_urb(): timer_delete_sync(&sc->ghl_poke_timer); usb_free_urb(sc->ghl_urb); timer_delete_sync() does not block re-arming, and while the URB is in flight the timer is not pending, so the sync delete is a no-op. A URB completion that runs after the delete re-arms the timer, and usb_free_urb() only drops a reference -- it does not kill an in-flight URB. sc is allocated with devm_kzalloc() and freed once sony_remove() returns, so the re-armed ghl_poke_timer (embedded in sc) then fires on freed memory, a use-after-free from timer softirq. This is a disconnect/rmmod race. Kill the URB first so no completion can re-arm the timer (further usb_submit_urb() from the callback then fails), then timer_shutdown_sync() to drain any last callback and permanently block re-arming, before freeing the URB. The probe error path is unaffected: it is only reached before the timer is armed. Reproduced under KASAN on next-20260710 via dummy_hcd + raw-gadget emulation of the GHL PS4 dongle (VID 0x1430 / PID 0x07bb): hid-sony binds and arms the poke timer, the poke URB is held in flight, the driver is unbound (freeing sc), then the URB is released. The completion re-arms the timer on the freed sc, and the re-armed timer fires ~8 s later: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ghl_magic_poke+0x98/0xb0 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810b02fd50 by task swapper/0/0 ghl_magic_poke+0x98/0xb0 call_timer_fn+0x35/0x2b0 __run_timers+0x69c/0x9a0 run_timer_softirq+0x173/0x2a0 Allocated by task 169: sony_probe Freed by task 338: devres_release_group <- hid_device_remove (sony_remove) Found by 0sec (https://0sec.ai) using automated source analysis. Fixes: cc894ac55360 ("HID: sony: support for ghlive ps3/wii u dongles") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: 0sec:multi-model Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <redacted> --- drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c b/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c
index 253fff4066eb..5f9670f3910a 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c@@ -2431,7 +2431,19 @@ static void sony_remove(struct hid_device *hdev) struct sony_sc *sc = hid_get_drvdata(hdev); if (sc->quirks & (GHL_GUITAR_PS3WIIU | GHL_GUITAR_PS4)) { - timer_delete_sync(&sc->ghl_poke_timer); + /* + * ghl_magic_poke() resubmits sc->ghl_urb from the poke timer + * and its completion ghl_magic_poke_cb() re-arms the timer, so + * an in-flight URB can re-arm the timer after a plain + * timer_delete_sync() (a no-op while the URB is in flight and + * the timer is not pending). sc is devm-allocated and freed + * once sony_remove() returns, so the re-armed timer would fire + * on freed memory. Kill the URB first so no completion can + * re-arm the timer, then timer_shutdown_sync() to drain it and + * permanently block further re-arming. + */ + usb_kill_urb(sc->ghl_urb); + timer_shutdown_sync(&sc->ghl_poke_timer); usb_free_urb(sc->ghl_urb); }
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