The root cause of this issue are: 1. When probing the usbnet device, executing usbnet_link_change(dev, 0, 0); put the kevent work in global workqueue. However, the kevent has not yet been scheduled when the usbnet device is unregistered. Therefore, executing free_netdev() results in the "free active object (kevent)" error reported here. 2. Another factor is that when calling usbnet_disconnect()->unregister_netdev(), if the usbnet device is up, ndo_stop() is executed to cancel the kevent. However, because the device is not up, ndo_stop() is not executed. The solution to this problem is to cancel the kevent before executing free_netdev(). Fixes: a69e617e533e ("usbnet: Fix linkwatch use-after-free on disconnect") Reported-by: Sam Sun Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8bfd7bcc98f7300afb84 Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu --- V1 -> V2: update comments for typos V2 -> V3: add fixes tag V3 -> V4: move cancel_work_sync to right after unregister_netdev drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c index bf01f2728531..697cd9d866d3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c @@ -1659,6 +1659,8 @@ void usbnet_disconnect (struct usb_interface *intf) net = dev->net; unregister_netdev (net); + cancel_work_sync(&dev->kevent); + while ((urb = usb_get_from_anchor(&dev->deferred))) { dev_kfree_skb(urb->context); kfree(urb->sg); -- 2.43.0