In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mmc: vub300: fix use-after-free on probe failure The vub300 driver lifetime-manages its controller state using vub300->kref, with vub300delete() freeing the mmc host when the last reference is dropped. The probe error path after the inactivity timer has been armed still bypasses that lifetime rule, however, and falls through to mmcfreehost() directly if mmcaddhost() fails. The race window is between arming the inactivity timer and reaching the probe error unwind after mmcaddhost() fails: probe thread timer/workqueue ------------ --------------- krefinit(&vub300->kref) ref = 1 krefget(&vub300->kref) ref = 2, timer ref addtimer(inactivitytimer) fires after one second | | race window |<----------------------------------------------------> | mmcaddhost(mmc) inactivity timer fires vub300queuedeadwork() krefget() ref = 3 queuework(deadwork) mmcaddhost() fails timerdeletesync() mmcfreehost(mmc) frees vub300 deadwork runs use-after-free The inactivity timeout is one second, so this would require mmcaddhost() to both fail and take more than one second to do so. This is unlikely to happen in practice, but the error path is still wrong. timerdeletesync() only waits for the timer callback itself. It does not flush deadwork that the callback may already have queued. As a result, queued deadwork can still hold a kref while the probe error path directly frees the backing mmc host, including the vub300 storage. Fix this by using the same lifetime mechanism as disconnect. Clear vub300->interface so that the timer callback and any queued deadwork return early and drop their references, then drop the initial probe reference and return without falling through to errfreehost.