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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90044"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:41.695Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:49:36.628Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90044"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90044.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90044"
title: "usb: gadget: f_fs: Fix Use-After-Free in AIO error path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_fs: Fix Use-After-Free in AIO error path\n\nIn ffs_epfile_write_iter() and ffs_epfile_read_iter(), when ffs_epfile_io()\nfails with an error other than -EIOCBQUEUED, the io_data structure (`p`) is\nfreed. However, for AIO operations, the kiocb cancel function was already\narmed and kiocb-\u003eprivate was set to `p`.\n\nIf a concurrent cancel operation (such as sys_io_cancel()) executes after\nffs_epfile_io() fails but before the function frees `p`, a Use-After-Free\ncan occur when the cancellation handler accesses the freed pointer.\n\nTo securely fix this race condition, we must properly un-arm the\ncancellation. Invoking `kiocb-\u003eki_complete()` does exactly this by\nacquiring `ctx-\u003ectx_lock` and safely removing the kiocb from the active\nsequence. In doing so, it ensures that a parallel io_cancel can no longer\ndiscover the kiocb, effectively closing the race window.\n\nWe then return -EIOCBQUEUED to notify the VFS layer that the kiocb has been\nconsumed and it should avoid attempting to complete the request again or\ntriggering subsequent completion handlers."
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