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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64594" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-06T07:13:50.309Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:58:16.410Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64594" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64594.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64594" title: "usb: gadget: f_fs: initialize reset_work at allocation time" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_fs: initialize reset_work at allocation time\n\nffs_fs_kill_sb() unconditionally calls cancel_work_sync() on\nffs-\u003ereset_work when a functionfs instance is unmounted:\n\n\tffs_data_reset(ffs);\n\tcancel_work_sync(&ffs-\u003ereset_work);\n\nHowever ffs-\u003ereset_work is only ever initialized via INIT_WORK() in\nffs_func_set_alt() and ffs_func_disable(), and only on the\nFFS_DEACTIVATED path. That state is reached solely by ffs_data_closed()\nwhen the instance is mounted with the \"no_disconnect\" option, so for the\ncommon case (no \"no_disconnect\", or mounted and unmounted without ever\nbeing deactivated) reset_work is never initialized.\n\nffs_data_new() allocates the ffs_data with kzalloc_obj() and does not\ninitialize reset_work, and ffs_data_reset()/ffs_data_clear() do not touch\nit either, so reset_work.func is left NULL. cancel_work_sync() on such a\nwork then trips the WARN_ON(!work-\u003efunc) guard in __flush_work():\n\n WARNING: kernel/workqueue.c:4301 at __flush_work+0x330/0x360, CPU#3: umount\n Call trace:\n __flush_work\n cancel_work_sync\n ffs_fs_kill_sb [usb_f_fs]\n deactivate_locked_super\n deactivate_super\n cleanup_mnt\n __cleanup_mnt\n task_work_run\n exit_to_user_mode_loop\n el0_svc\n\nOn older kernels cancel_work_sync() on a zero-initialized work struct was\na silent no-op, which hid the missing initialization.\n\nInitialize reset_work once in ffs_data_new() so it is always valid for\nthe lifetime of the ffs_data, and drop the now-redundant INIT_WORK()\ncalls from the two deactivation paths." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"18d6b32fca3841f7cd9479b4024abd8a9b299281","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fe895e0a9651518c4fc082487da770ff9c14c7f"},{"version":"18d6b32fca3841f7cd9479b4024abd8a9b299281","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0de6ebbabfbbc9c28350283dc97d8a519d5c6dd7"},{"version":"18d6b32fca3841f7cd9479b4024abd8a9b299281","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb19e54ebe9baf3c3243083ade65c937339ccb7b"},{"version":"18d6b32fca3841f7cd9479b4024abd8a9b299281","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5631081be07f20e764d3cb5c98ac0a1004fba51"},{"version":"18d6b32fca3841f7cd9479b4024abd8a9b299281","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c36393b0d14e1e9783888f821ffe29381b8f46dc"},{"version":"18d6b32fca3841f7cd9479b4024abd8a9b299281","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69faa3779250df14f51d5084f938a99809546e52"},{"version":"18d6b32fca3841f7cd9479b4024abd8a9b299281","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba1867999dbc4085e6d8c52ac5266005b8b2bf07"},{"version":"18d6b32fca3841f7cd9479b4024abd8a9b299281","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3137b243c93982fe3460335e12f9247739766e10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.0"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.97","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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