In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xhci: Handle TD clearing for multiple streams case
When multiple streams are in use, multiple TDs might be in flight when an endpoint is stopped. We need to issue a Set TR Dequeue Pointer for each, to ensure everything is reset properly and the caches cleared. Change the logic so that any N>1 TDs found active for different streams are deferred until after the first one is processed, calling xhci_invalidate_cancelled_tds() again from xhci_handle_cmd_set_deq() to queue another command until we are done with all of them. Also change the error/"should never happen" paths to ensure we at least clear any affected TDs, even if we can't issue a command to clear the hardware cache, and complain loudly with an xhci_warn() if this ever happens.
This problem case dates back to commit e9df17eb1408 ("USB: xhci: Correct assumptions about number of rings per endpoint.") early on in the XHCI driver's life, when stream support was first added. It was then identified but not fixed nor made into a warning in commit 674f8438c121 ("xhci: split handling halted endpoints into two steps"), which added a FIXME comment for the problem case (without materially changing the behavior as far as I can tell, though the new logic made the problem more obvious).
Then later, in commit 94f339147fc3 ("xhci: Fix failure to give back some cached cancelled URBs."), it was acknowledged again.
[Mathias: commit 94f339147fc3 ("xhci: Fix failure to give back some cached cancelled URBs.") was a targeted regression fix to the previously mentioned patch. Users reported issues with usb stuck after unmounting/disconnecting UAS devices. This rolled back the TD clearing of multiple streams to its original state.]
Apparently the commit author was aware of the problem (yet still chose to submit it): It was still mentioned as a FIXME, an xhci_dbg() was added to log the problem condition, and the remaining issue was mentioned in the commit description. The choice of making the log type xhci_dbg() for what is, at this point, a completely unhandled and known broken condition is puzzling and unfortunate, as it guarantees that no actual users would see the log in production, thereby making it nigh undebuggable (indeed, even if you turn on DEBUG, the message doesn't really hint at there being a problem at all).
It took me *months* of random xHC crashes to finally find a reliable repro and be able to do a deep dive debug session, which could all have been avoided had this unhandled, broken condition been actually reported with a warning, as it should have been as a bug intentionally left in unfixed (never mind that it shouldn't have been left in at all).
> Another fix to solve clearing the caches of all stream rings with > cancelled TDs is needed, but not as urgent.
3 years after that statement and 14 years after the original bug was introduced, I think it's finally time to fix it. And maybe next time let's not leave bugs unfixed (that are actually worse than the original bug), and let's actually get people to review kernel commits please.
Fixes xHC crashes and IOMMU faults with UAS devices when handling errors/faults. Easiest repro is to use `hdparm` to mark an early sector (e.g. 1024) on a disk as bad, then `cat /dev/sdX > /dev/null` in a loop. At least in the case of JMicron controllers, the read errors end up having to cancel two TDs (for two queued requests to different streams) and the one that didn't get cleared properly ends up faulting the xHC entirely when it tries to access DMA pages that have since been unmapped, referred to by the stale TDs. This normally happens quickly (after two or three loops). After this fix, I left the `cat` in a loop running overnight and experienced no xHC failures, with all read errors recovered properly. Repro'd and tested on an Apple M1 Mac Mini (dwc3 host).
On systems without an IOMMU, this bug would instead silently corrupt freed memory, making this a ---truncated---
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.8
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
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| Alma_linux | — | Upgrade kernel-64k-modulesUpgrade kernel-debug-devel-matchedUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extraUpgrade kernelUpgrade kernel-rt-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-headersUpgrade kernel-rt-coreUpgrade kernel-64k-devel-matchedUpgrade kernel-64k-coreUpgrade kernel-devel-matchedUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-develUpgrade kernel-cross-headersUpgrade kernel-64k-debug-modules-extraUpgrade kernel-64k-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-debugUpgrade kernel-coreUpgrade kernel-64k-develUpgrade kernel-modules-extraUpgrade kernel-modulesUpgrade kernel-docUpgrade kernel-zfcpdumpUpgrade kernel-debug-develUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-kvmUpgrade kernel-uki-virtUpgrade kernel-debug-coreUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-develUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-64kUpgrade kernel-debug-modules-extraUpgrade kernel-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-modulesUpgrade kernel-abi-stablelistsUpgrade rtlaUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-modules-extraUpgrade libperfUpgrade kernel-64k-debug-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-64k-debug-devel-matchedUpgrade kernel-rt-develUpgrade perfUpgrade kernel-debug-modulesUpgrade kernel-rt-modulesUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-toolsUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matchedUpgrade kernel-rt-debugUpgrade kernel-tools-libsUpgrade kernel-64k-debugUpgrade rvUpgrade kernel-rt-kvmUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-coreUpgrade kernel-rt-modules-extraUpgrade python3-perfUpgrade kernel-rtUpgrade kernel-debug-uki-virtUpgrade kernel-tools-libs-develUpgrade kernel-develUpgrade kernel-64k-modules-extraUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-modulesUpgrade bpftoolUpgrade kernel-64k-debug-modulesUpgrade kernel-debug-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-64k-debug-coreUpgrade kernel-64k-debug-develUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-core | Aug 12, 2024 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade bpftoolUpgrade python-perfUpgrade kernelUpgrade kernel-tools-debuginfoUpgrade bpftool-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64Upgrade kernel-debuginfoUpgrade python-perf-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-livepatch-5.15.162-107.160Upgrade kernel-toolsUpgrade kernel-tools-develUpgrade kernel-develUpgrade kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64Upgrade perf-debuginfoUpgrade perfUpgrade kernel-headers | May 22, 2025 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Amazon_linux_2023 | — | Upgrade bpftoolUpgrade kernel-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-livepatch-6.1.96-102.177Upgrade kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64Upgrade perfUpgrade kernel-tools-develUpgrade kernel-libbpfUpgrade python3-perfUpgrade kernel-develUpgrade perf-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-tools-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-libbpf-staticUpgrade kernel-headersUpgrade kernel-libbpf-develUpgrade bpftool-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-modules-extraUpgrade kernelUpgrade kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64Upgrade kernel-modules-extra-commonUpgrade python3-perf-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-tools | Jun 11, 2025 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade linuxUpgrade linux-6.1 | Jul 18, 2024 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp11 | — | Upgrade kernelUpgrade kernel-abi-stablelistsUpgrade bpftoolUpgrade python3-perfUpgrade kernel-tools-libsUpgrade kernel-tools | Jun 13, 2025 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp13 | — | Upgrade python3-perfUpgrade bpftoolUpgrade kernelUpgrade kernel-tools-libsUpgrade kernel-toolsUpgrade kernel-abi-stablelists | Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade kernel-uekUpgrade kernel | Aug 16, 2024 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade kernelNo solution existsUpgrade kernel-rt | Aug 12, 2024 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Rocky_linux | — | Upgrade kernel-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-modules-extraUpgrade kernel-uki-virtUpgrade kernel-debug-develUpgrade kernel-modulesUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-develUpgrade kernel-zfcpdumpUpgrade kernel-coreUpgrade kernel-rt-coreUpgrade kernel-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-modulesUpgrade kernel-develUpgrade python3-perf-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64Upgrade kernel-debug-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-rt-develUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extraUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-develUpgrade kernel-debug-coreUpgrade kernelUpgrade rtlaUpgrade kernel-debug-uki-virtUpgrade kernel-rt-debugUpgrade kernel-debugUpgrade kernel-tools-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-tools-libsUpgrade kernel-debug-modulesUpgrade python3-perfUpgrade kernel-cross-headersUpgrade libperfUpgrade kernel-debug-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-kvmUpgrade kernel-headersUpgrade perf-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-modules-extraUpgrade kernel-toolsUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-rt-kvmUpgrade kernel-rtUpgrade kernel-tools-libs-develUpgrade kernel-devel-matchedUpgrade kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64Upgrade kernel-rt-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-rt-modulesUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-coreUpgrade kernel-debug-devel-matchedUpgrade kernel-debug-modules-extraUpgrade kernel-rt-debug-coreUpgrade kernel-rt-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-modulesUpgrade libperf-debuginfoUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-modules-coreUpgrade kernel-rt-modules-extraUpgrade rvUpgrade bpftool-debuginfoUpgrade bpftoolUpgrade perfUpgrade kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched | Aug 22, 2024 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade dtb-nvidiaUpgrade gfs2-kmp-rtUpgrade dtb-amdUpgrade kernel-64kb-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-default-extraUpgrade kernel-devel-azureUpgrade kernel-kvmsmallUpgrade kernel-syms-azureUpgrade kernel-rtUpgrade kselftests-kmp-defaultUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-defaultUpgrade kernel-kvmsmall-vdsoUpgrade kselftests-kmp-rtUpgrade dtb-apmUpgrade dtb-armUpgrade kernel-docs-htmlUpgrade kernel-obs-qaUpgrade kernel-macrosUpgrade kernel-azure-vdsoUpgrade kernel-syms-rtUpgrade reiserfs-kmp-rtUpgrade kernel-rt-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-azure-extraUpgrade kernel-rt_debugUpgrade kernel-azure-develUpgrade dlm-kmp-azureUpgrade kernel-debug-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-zfcpdumpUpgrade dtb-socionextUpgrade kernel-azure-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-rt-vdsoUpgrade dtb-appleUpgrade kernel-symsUpgrade kernel-docsUpgrade gfs2-kmp-64kbUpgrade kernel-defaultUpgrade dtb-rockchipUpgrade dtb-amlogicUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-rtUpgrade dlm-kmp-defaultUpgrade dtb-mediatekUpgrade kernel-default-baseUpgrade dtb-marvellUpgrade kernel-64kb-optionalUpgrade kernel-rt_debug-vdsoUpgrade kernel-kvmsmall-develUpgrade reiserfs-kmp-azureUpgrade dtb-broadcomUpgrade kernel-devel-rtUpgrade kernel-64kb-develUpgrade dlm-kmp-rtUpgrade reiserfs-kmp-64kbUpgrade kernel-source-rtUpgrade kernel-rt-livepatchUpgrade dtb-lgUpgrade dtb-alteraUpgrade kernel-source-vanillaUpgrade kernel-obs-buildUpgrade kernel-develUpgrade kernel-rt-optionalUpgrade dlm-kmp-64kbUpgrade dtb-exynosUpgrade kernel-rt_debug-develUpgrade kernel-64kb-extraUpgrade kernel-default-livepatchUpgrade kernel-default-optionalUpgrade kernel-debug-develUpgrade dtb-renesasUpgrade kernel-default-base-rebuildUpgrade kernel-default-vdsoUpgrade kernel-azureUpgrade gfs2-kmp-azureUpgrade dtb-xilinxUpgrade dtb-allwinnerUpgrade kernel-sourceUpgrade reiserfs-kmp-defaultUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-defaultUpgrade kernel-source-azureUpgrade kernel-rt_debug-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-default-develUpgrade kernel-64kbUpgrade dtb-sprdUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-64kbUpgrade kernel-rt-extraUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-rtUpgrade kernel-rt-develUpgrade kernel-debugUpgrade kselftests-kmp-azureUpgrade kselftests-kmp-64kbUpgrade kernel-default-livepatch-develUpgrade gfs2-kmp-defaultUpgrade dtb-amazonUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-64kbUpgrade kernel-debug-vdsoUpgrade dtb-caviumUpgrade kernel-kvmsmall-livepatch-develUpgrade kernel-azure-optionalUpgrade cluster-md-kmp-azureUpgrade dtb-qcomUpgrade dtb-hisiliconUpgrade dtb-freescaleUpgrade ocfs2-kmp-azure | Aug 14, 2024 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade linux-image-aws-lts-22.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-20.04Upgrade linux-image-5.15.0-121-lowlatency-64kUpgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04Upgrade linux-image-oem-22.04bUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-64k-6.8Upgrade linux-image-awsUpgrade linux-image-oem-22.04dUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1068-gcpUpgrade linux-image-azure-cvmUpgrade linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-20.04Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-6.8Upgrade linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-20.04Upgrade linux-image-6.8.0-45-genericUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-44-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-image-gcp-lts-22.04Upgrade linux-image-6.8.0-44-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-raspi-nolpaeUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1064-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-raspiUpgrade linux-image-ibm-classicUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1067-oracleUpgrade linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-kvmUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency-64kUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1066-gkeUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1069-awsUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-121-genericUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1014-gcpUpgrade linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-20.04Upgrade linux-image-oracleUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1012-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1013-nvidia-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-image-ibm-lts-24.04Upgrade linux-image-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1064-nvidia-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1010-gkeUpgrade linux-image-nvidia-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1064-intel-iotgUpgrade linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-22.04Upgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1072-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-oem-22.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-lpaeUpgrade linux-image-gcpUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1012-oemUpgrade linux-image-virtual-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-intel-iotgUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1035-xilinx-zynqmpUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1013-nvidia-lowlatency-64kUpgrade linux-image-oem-20.04cUpgrade linux-image-azureUpgrade linux-image-virtualUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1066-kvmUpgrade linux-image-ibmUpgrade linux-image-oem-22.04cUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1013-nvidia-64kUpgrade linux-image-oem-20.04dUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1062-raspiUpgrade linux-image-oracle-lts-22.04Upgrade linux-image-gkeUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-44-genericUpgrade linux-image-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-oem-20.04bUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-121-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-image-gkeop-5.15Upgrade linux-image-oem-20.04Upgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1011-raspiUpgrade linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-22.04Upgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1062-ibmUpgrade linux-image-gke-5.15Upgrade linux-image-nvidia-64kUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1015-awsUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1013-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1014-azureUpgrade linux-image-genericUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1014-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1072-azureUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-44-lowlatency-64kUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1012-oracleUpgrade linux-image-gkeopUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-1052-gkeopUpgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-22.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04Upgrade linux-image-virtual-hwe-20.04Upgrade linux-image-intelUpgrade linux-image-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-image-azure-lts-22.04Upgrade linux-image-xilinx-zynqmpUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-121-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-nvidiaUpgrade linux-image-azure-fde-lts-22.04Upgrade linux-image-lowlatency-64kUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-1012-ibmUpgrade linux-image-6.8.0-45-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-5.15.0-121-generic-lpaeUpgrade linux-image-oem-22.04aUpgrade linux-image-virtual-hwe-22.04 | Sep 12, 2024 | Jul 12, 2024 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Oct 9, 2025 | Jul 12, 2024 |
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