Re: [syzbot] KASAN: use-after-free Read in kernfs_next_descendant_post (2)

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 11:35:10AM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> request_firmware_nowait() is documented as requiring the caller to
> ensure to maintain the the reference count of @device during the
> lifetime of the call to request_firmware_nowait() and the callback.

My reading was that just holding the ref isn't enough. The code expects the
device to be not destroyed independent of the refcnt. I don't see how this
would be fixed by diddling with refcnt.

Thanks.

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tejun