[PATCH v2] usb: dwc3: Fix crash on fastboot exit due to incorrect memory free

Balaji Selvanathan balaji.selvanathan at oss.qualcomm.com
Thu May 7 06:36:25 CEST 2026


The dwc3_free_one_event_buffer() function incorrectly called free()
on event buffer structures allocated with devm_kzalloc(). This
caused heap corruption and a synchronous abort when exiting
fastboot mode via "fastboot continue".

Device-managed memory is automatically freed when the device is
removed, so manual deallocation causes the heap allocator to access
corrupted metadata.

Fixes: 884b10e86a05 ("usb: dwc3: core: fix memory leaks in event buffer cleanup")

Signed-off-by: Balaji Selvanathan <balaji.selvanathan at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Added Fixes tag in commit description
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20260506-usb-v1-1-e0f426bb1e42@oss.qualcomm.com/
---
 drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c b/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
index 0dee14c8b59..be198041f08 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/dwc3/core.c
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@ static void dwc3_free_one_event_buffer(struct dwc3 *dwc,
 		struct dwc3_event_buffer *evt)
 {
 	dma_free_coherent(evt->buf);
-	free(evt);
 }
 
 /**

---
base-commit: 3cdd19089f1b1b7cd08530f33ff4708abcfd426c
change-id: 20260507-usb-34b404ff063a

Best regards,
-- 
Balaji Selvanathan <balaji.selvanathan at oss.qualcomm.com>



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