This reverts commit 5be2b76a9ca4ea5fd3e221114d62eeb0d78267ca. Only when the lirc device is freed, should we drop our reference to rc_dev, else we the rc_dev is freed to early. If userspace has a file descriptor open during unplug, it goes bang. ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __lock_acquire+0x7bb/0x1e10 Read of size 8 at addr ffff8801d7d61ed0 by task ir-rec/2609 -snip- mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20 ? mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x20 rc_close.part.6+0x20/0x60 [rc_core] rc_close+0x13/0x20 [rc_core] lirc_dev_fop_close+0x62/0xd0 [lirc_dev] __fput+0x236/0x410 ? fput+0xb0/0xb0 ? do_raw_spin_trylock+0x110/0x110 ? set_rq_offline.part.70+0xa0/0xa0 ____fput+0xe/0x10 task_work_run+0x116/0x180 ? task_work_cancel+0x170/0x170 ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x27/0x40 ? switch_task_namespaces+0x5f/0x90 do_exit+0x68b/0xe80 Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c index db1e7b70c998..9080e39ea391 100644 --- a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c +++ b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static void lirc_release(struct device *ld) { struct irctl *ir = container_of(ld, struct irctl, dev); + put_device(ir->dev.parent); + if (ir->buf_internal) { lirc_buffer_free(ir->buf); kfree(ir->buf); @@ -218,6 +220,8 @@ int lirc_register_driver(struct lirc_driver *d) mutex_unlock(&lirc_dev_lock); + get_device(ir->dev.parent); + dev_info(ir->d.dev, "lirc_dev: driver %s registered at minor = %d\n", ir->d.name, ir->d.minor); -- 2.13.3