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[PATCH net] net: usb: ipheth: fix carrier_work UAF on disconnect

From: Doruk Tan Ozturk <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-24 13:42:54
Also in: linux-usb, lkml, stable
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest, usb networking drivers · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

ipheth_sndbulk_callback() re-arms the carrier-check work on any non-zero
URB status:

	else
		schedule_delayed_work(&dev->carrier_work, 0);

ipheth_disconnect() drains that work via unregister_netdev() ->
ipheth_close() -> cancel_delayed_work_sync(), and only then kills the URBs
with ipheth_kill_urbs(). usb_kill_urb() completes any in-flight TX URB
synchronously with -ENOENT, so ipheth_sndbulk_callback() runs after the
drain and re-arms carrier_work. free_netdev() then frees the netdev
whose private area embeds carrier_work, and the pending
ipheth_carrier_check_work() dereferences the freed device, a
use-after-free on unplug while a TX URB is in flight.

Drain carrier_work again after the URB source is stopped and before the
netdev is freed.

Found by 0sec (https://0sec.ai) using automated source analysis; not
runtime-reproduced.

Fixes: bb1b40c7cb86 ("usbnet: ipheth: prevent TX queue timeouts when device not ready")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: 0sec:multi-model
Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c b/drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c
index bb1364f85bd1..fdddd761f83b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ipheth.c
@@ -672,6 +672,15 @@ static void ipheth_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
 	if (dev != NULL) {
 		unregister_netdev(dev->net);
 		ipheth_kill_urbs(dev);
+		/*
+		 * ipheth_sndbulk_callback() re-arms carrier_work on the
+		 * -ENOENT completion delivered by the usb_kill_urb() in
+		 * ipheth_kill_urbs(), after ipheth_close() (via
+		 * unregister_netdev()) already drained it.  Drain it again
+		 * once the URB source is stopped, before free_netdev() frees
+		 * the netdev whose private area embeds carrier_work.
+		 */
+		cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dev->carrier_work);
 		ipheth_free_urbs(dev);
 		kfree(dev->ctrl_buf);
 		free_netdev(dev->net);
-- 
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