From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@0sec.ai>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12 1053/1102] HID: sony: fix UAF of ghl_poke_timer / ghl_urb at driver unbind
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:16:36 +0100
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6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@0sec.ai>

[ Upstream commit a26705bd2e2728833e7a538ce91e58a5eeff496a ]

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.

Poison the URB first, then shut the timer down, before freeing the URB.
usb_poison_urb() kills any in-flight URB and permanently rejects further
submissions, so a poke timer that is still pending cannot re-submit the
URB from ghl_magic_poke() in the window before timer_shutdown_sync() runs.
usb_kill_urb() would not suffice: it only cancels the in-flight URB and
leaves it submittable once it returns, so the pending timer could
re-submit it and put a fresh URB in flight over the freed sc.
timer_shutdown_sync() then drains any last callback and blocks re-arming.
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 <doruk@0sec.ai>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
[ changed the old del_timer_sync() call to timer_shutdown_sync() ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-sony.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c
@@ -2163,7 +2163,9 @@ static void sony_remove(struct hid_devic
 	struct sony_sc *sc = hid_get_drvdata(hdev);
 
 	if (sc->quirks & (GHL_GUITAR_PS3WIIU | GHL_GUITAR_PS4)) {
-		del_timer_sync(&sc->ghl_poke_timer);
+		/* poison, not kill: a pending timer must not re-submit during teardown */
+		usb_poison_urb(sc->ghl_urb);
+		timer_shutdown_sync(&sc->ghl_poke_timer);
 		usb_free_urb(sc->ghl_urb);
 	}