CVE-2026-31721

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: gadget: f_hid: move list and spinlock inits from bind to alloc

There was an issue when you did the following:

• setup and bind an hid gadget
• open /dev/hidg0
• use the resulting fd in EPOLL_CTL_ADD
• unbind the UDC
• bind the UDC
• use the fd in EPOLL_CTL_DEL

When CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST was enabled, a list_del corruption was reported within remove_wait_queue (via ep_remove_wait_queue). After some debugging I found out that the queues, which f_hid registers via poll_wait were the problem. These were initialized using init_waitqueue_head inside hidg_bind. So effectively, the bind function re-initialized the queues while there were still items in them.

The solution is to move the initialization from hidg_bind to hidg_alloc to extend their lifetimes to the lifetime of the function instance.

Additionally, I found many other possibly problematic init calls in the bind function, which I moved as well.

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Amazon Linux 2 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , Debian 10 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS

Affected packages:

kernel @ 5.10.0 (+12 more)

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.