In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: fhid: fix fhidg lifetime vs cdev The embedded struct cdev does not have its lifetime correctly tied to the enclosing struct fhidg, so there is a use-after-free if /dev/hidgN is held open while the gadget is deleted. This can readily be replicated with libusbgx's example programs (for conciseness - operating directly via configfs is equivalent): gadget-hid exec 3<> /dev/hidg0 gadget-vid-pid-remove exec 3<&- Pull the existing device up in to struct fhidg and make use of the cdevdevice{add,del}() helpers. This changes the lifetime of the device object to match struct f_hidg, but note that it is still added and deleted at the same time.