CVE-2025-68323 — usb: typec: ucsi: fix use-after-free caused by uec->work

Affected: Linux

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

usb: typec: ucsi: fix use-after-free caused by uec->work

The delayed work uec->work is scheduled in gaokun_ucsi_probe() but never properly canceled in gaokun_ucsi_remove(). This creates use-after-free scenarios where the ucsi and gaokun_ucsi structure are freed after ucsi_destroy() completes execution, while the gaokun_ucsi_register_worker() might be either currently executing or still pending in the work queue. The already-freed gaokun_ucsi or ucsi structure may then be accessed.

Furthermore, the race window is 3 seconds, which is sufficiently long to make this bug easily reproducible. The following is the trace captured by KASAN:

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __run_timers+0x5ec/0x630 Write of size 8 at addr ffff00000ec28cc8 by task swapper/0/0 ... Call trace: show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C) dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90 print_report+0x114/0x580 kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0 __asan_report_store8_noabort+0x20/0x2c __run_timers+0x5ec/0x630 run_timer_softirq+0xe8/0x1cc handle_softirqs+0x294/0x720 __do_softirq+0x14/0x20 ____do_softirq+0x10/0x1c call_on_irq_stack+0x30/0x48 do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x28 __irq_exit_rcu+0x27c/0x364 irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c el1_interrupt+0x40/0x60 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70 arch_local_irq_enable+0x4/0x8 (P) do_idle+0x334/0x458 cpu_startup_entry+0x60/0x70 rest_init+0x158/0x174 start…

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CVE-2025-68323 — usb: typec: ucsi: fix use-after-free caused by uec->work