CVE-2026-72073

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The probe error path after the inactivity timer has\nbeen armed still bypasses that lifetime rule, however, and falls through\nto mmc_free_host() directly if mmc_add_host() fails.\n\nThe race window is between arming the inactivity timer and reaching the\nprobe error unwind after mmc_add_host() fails:\n\n probe thread timer/workqueue\n ------------ ---------------\n kref_init(&vub300->kref) ref = 1\n kref_get(&vub300->kref) ref = 2, timer ref\n add_timer(inactivity_timer) fires after one second\n |\n | race window\n |<---------------------------------------------------->\n |\n mmc_add_host(mmc)\n inactivity timer fires\n vub300_queue_dead_work()\n kref_get() ref = 3\n queue_work(deadwork)\n mmc_add_host() fails\n timer_delete_sync()\n mmc_free_host(mmc)\n frees vub300\n deadwork runs\n use-after-free\n\nThe inactivity timeout is one second, so this would require\nmmc_add_host() to both fail and take more than one second to do so. This\nis unlikely to happen in practice, but the error path is still wrong.\n\ntimer_delete_sync() only waits for the timer callback itself. It does\nnot flush deadwork that the callback may already have queued. As a\nresult, queued deadwork can still hold a kref while the probe error path\ndirectly frees the backing mmc host, including the vub300 storage.\n\nFix this by using the same lifetime mechanism as disconnect. Clear\nvub300->interface so that the timer callback and any queued deadwork\nreturn early and drop their references, then drop the initial probe\nreference and return without falling through to err_free_host."}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/mmc/host/vub300.c"], "versions": [{"version": "0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676", "lessThan": "face65f80c6946c631ca3490b4ebd2c016a4fd2c", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676", "lessThan": "6c66653dac9b25272d5fd4ed42a34aa5249e16df", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676", "lessThan": "5b82af744e06cd741938c3da54fdbe564a7e52d9", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "0613ad2401f88bdeae5594c30afe318e93b14676", "lessThan": 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The probe error path after the inactivity timer has\nbeen armed still bypasses that lifetime rule, however, and falls through\nto mmc_free_host() directly if mmc_add_host() fails.\n\nThe race window is between arming the inactivity timer and reaching the\nprobe error unwind after mmc_add_host() fails:\n\n probe thread timer/workqueue\n ------------ ---------------\n kref_init(&vub300->kref) ref = 1\n kref_get(&vub300->kref) ref = 2, timer ref\n add_timer(inactivity_timer) fires after one second\n |\n | race window\n |<---------------------------------------------------->\n |\n mmc_add_host(mmc)\n inactivity timer fires\n vub300_queue_dead_work()\n kref_get() ref = 3\n queue_work(deadwork)\n mmc_add_host() fails\n timer_delete_sync()\n mmc_free_host(mmc)\n frees vub300\n deadwork runs\n use-after-free\n\nThe inactivity timeout is one second, so this would require\nmmc_add_host() to both fail and take more than one second to do so. This\nis unlikely to happen in practice, but the error path is still wrong.\n\ntimer_delete_sync() only waits for the timer callback itself. It does\nnot flush deadwork that the callback may already have queued. As a\nresult, queued deadwork can still hold a kref while the probe error path\ndirectly frees the backing mmc host, including the vub300 storage.\n\nFix this by using the same lifetime mechanism as disconnect. 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