We should have 2 references on the device at this point, did you see a “nbd: possibly leaking a device” message before the kasan stuff? Thanks, Josef On 4/28/17, 12:29 AM, "Ming Lei" <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Looks it is a typo, just fix it, otherwise the following warning can be trigerred: [ming@VM]$sudo rmmod nbd [sudo] password for ming: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in nbd_cleanup+0x115/0x18e [nbd] at addr ffff88024ca539b0 Read of size 8 by task rmmod/2079 Object at ffff88024ca53900, in cache kmalloc-256 size: 256 Allocated: PID = 1414 Freed: PID = 2079 Memory state around the buggy address: ffff88024ca53880: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc ffff88024ca53900: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb >ffff88024ca53980: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff88024ca53a00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff88024ca53a80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ================================================================== Fixes: c6a4759ea0c9(nbd: add device refcounting) Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 5583dc4ff941..fa44a6fce4cb 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -2110,7 +2110,6 @@ static void __exit nbd_cleanup(void) if (refcount_read(&nbd->refs) != 2) printk(KERN_ERR "nbd: possibly leaking a device\n"); nbd_put(nbd); - nbd_put(nbd); } idr_destroy(&nbd_index_idr); -- 2.9.3