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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48869"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-21T06:09:59.526Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:48:43.958Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48869"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48869.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48869"
title: "USB: gadgetfs: Fix race between mounting and unmounting"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: gadgetfs: Fix race between mounting and unmounting\n\nThe syzbot fuzzer and Gerald Lee have identified a use-after-free bug\nin the gadgetfs driver, involving processes concurrently mounting and\nunmounting the gadgetfs filesystem.  In particular, gadgetfs_fill_super()\ncan race with gadgetfs_kill_sb(), causing the latter to deallocate\nthe_device while the former is using it.  The output from KASAN says,\nin part:\n\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:102 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:176 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:272 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in put_dev drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:159 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in gadgetfs_kill_sb+0x33/0x100 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2086\nWrite of size 4 at addr ffff8880276d7840 by task syz-executor126/18689\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 18689 Comm: syz-executor126 Not tainted 6.1.0-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n...\n atomic_fetch_sub_release include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:176 [inline]\n __refcount_sub_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:272 [inline]\n __refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:315 [inline]\n refcount_dec_and_test include/linux/refcount.h:333 [inline]\n put_dev drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:159 [inline]\n gadgetfs_kill_sb+0x33/0x100 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c:2086\n deactivate_locked_super+0xa7/0xf0 fs/super.c:332\n vfs_get_super fs/super.c:1190 [inline]\n get_tree_single+0xd0/0x160 fs/super.c:1207\n vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1531\n vfs_fsconfig_locked fs/fsopen.c:232 [inline]\n\nThe simplest solution is to ensure that gadgetfs_fill_super() and\ngadgetfs_kill_sb() are serialized by making them both acquire a new\nmutex."
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