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Its next request is then\nsilently dropped: rtsx_usb_ms_request() skips schedule_work() once eject\nis set, and drv_remove's cancel_work_sync() can also cancel a queued\nhandle_req before it picks the request up. Nobody completes\ncard->mrq_complete.\n\nOnce memstick core waits for requests without a timeout (\"memstick: core:\nwait for request completion before freeing card\"), this hangs removal:\nmemstick_check() never returns and memstick_remove_host() blocks in\nflush_workqueue():\n\n INFO: task kworker/u10:3:65 blocked for more than 20 seconds.\n Workqueue: kmemstick memstick_check\n __wait_for_common\n memstick_check\n\n INFO: task kworker/1:1:33 blocked for more than 20 seconds.\n Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event\n __flush_workqueue\n memstick_remove_host\n rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove\n\nNever drop a request. rtsx_usb_ms_request() always schedules handle_req,\nand handle_req fails requests with -ENOMEDIUM once eject is set, without\ntouching the device. drv_remove flushes handle_req instead of cancelling\nit, and cancels it only after memstick_remove_host(), when no new\nrequest can arrive, so it cannot run on a freed host.\n\nThe host_mutex drain in drv_remove is removed: handle_req always leaves\nhost->req NULL when it finishes, so the drain never had anything to do,\nand it would now race with handle_req."}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c"], "versions": [{"version": "99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40", "lessThan": "f2c181e1d58e911804e14543b2f1cc6b23a0d4d6", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40", "lessThan": "5b599e28aeb3684772aef64f46cc6f25f4c67128", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40", "lessThan": "d7e811c3a49cd5cff529c157df886719e09370ec", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40", "lessThan": "5616da0f92339328fa1472876df51555e15ad340", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99451dceeb5fdd789f0a2eeb3ee029e80d2ccc40", "lessThan": "c96ca94425b076dc398d929366e378d1e22ec794", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_usb_ms.c"], "versions": [{"version": "3.16", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "3.16", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.160", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.113", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.57", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.11", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "3.16", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.160"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "3.16", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.113"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "3.16", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.57"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "3.16", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.11"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "3.16", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2c181e1d58e911804e14543b2f1cc6b23a0d4d6"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b599e28aeb3684772aef64f46cc6f25f4c67128"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7e811c3a49cd5cff529c157df886719e09370ec"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5616da0f92339328fa1472876df51555e15ad340"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c96ca94425b076dc398d929366e378d1e22ec794"}], "title": "memstick: rtsx_usb_ms: complete requests after eject instead of dropping them", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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{"created": "2026-10-23T16:00:18.685287+00:00", "updated": "2026-10-23T16:00:18.685292+00:00", "vendors": [], "weaknesses": ["CWE-362"]}