In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: midi2: Fix null-pointer dereference in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs
A null-pointer dereference occurs in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() when attempting to clean up an endpoint that was never initialized.
When configuring the MIDI 2.0 gadget via configfs and setting the block direction to SNDRV_UMP_DIR_INPUT, the initialization of the midi1_ep_out endpoint is explicitly skipped during the gadget bind phase (f_midi2_bind()). As a result, the usb_ep->card field remains NULL.
Later, when the host sets the alternate setting, f_midi2_set_alt() unconditionally stops both the IN and OUT endpoints by calling f_midi2_stop_eps(), which in turn calls f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() for both endpoints. When f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() is called for the uninitialized midi1_ep_out, it attempts to dereference usb_ep->card to determine the number of requests to free, leading to a crash.
Fix this by using usb_ep->num_reqs instead of usb_ep->card->info.num_reqs in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs(). usb_ep->num_reqs is correctly set during f_midi2_init_ep() and remains 0 if the endpoint was never initialized, safely avoiding the loop. For consistency, apply the same change to f_midi2_alloc_ep_reqs().
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc00000000ee: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000770-0x0000000000000777] ... RIP: 0010:f_midi2_free_ep_reqs drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1166 [inline] RIP: 0010:f_midi2_stop_eps+0x28e/0x4d0 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1246 ... Call Trace: <TASK> f_midi2_set_alt+0x11c/0xf00 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1296 composite_setup+0x1ffd/0x3480 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:1933 configfs_composite_setup+0xbd/0x100 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1877
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