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usb: xhci: Fix memory leak in xhci_disable_slot()
authorZilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Wed, 4 Mar 2026 22:36:37 +0000 (00:36 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:18:48 +0000 (16:18 +0100)
commitc1c8550e70401159184130a1afc6261db01fc0ce
tree720ee5875ee7d62d98d08633404aced34db3b058
parent8df672bfe3ec2268c2636584202755898e547173
usb: xhci: Fix memory leak in xhci_disable_slot()

xhci_alloc_command() allocates a command structure and, when the
second argument is true, also allocates a completion structure.
Currently, the error handling path in xhci_disable_slot() only frees
the command structure using kfree(), causing the completion structure
to leak.

Use xhci_free_command() instead of kfree(). xhci_free_command() correctly
frees both the command structure and the associated completion structure.
Since the command structure is allocated with zero-initialization,
command->in_ctx is NULL and will not be erroneously freed by
xhci_free_command().

This bug was found using an experimental static analysis tool we are
developing. The tool is based on the LLVM framework and is specifically
designed to detect memory management issues. It is currently under
active development and not yet publicly available, but we plan to
open-source it after our research is published.

The bug was originally detected on v6.13-rc1 using our static analysis
tool, and we have verified that the issue persists in the latest mainline
kernel.

We performed build testing on x86_64 with allyesconfig using GCC=11.4.0.
Since triggering these error paths in xhci_disable_slot() requires specific
hardware conditions or abnormal state, we were unable to construct a test
case to reliably trigger these specific error paths at runtime.

Fixes: 7faac1953ed1 ("xhci: avoid race between disable slot command and host runtime suspend")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304223639.3882398-2-mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/host/xhci.c