Hello:
This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni [off-list ref]:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:05:47 +0300 you wrote:
slip_devs[] stores bare net_device pointers and takes no reference on
them. sl_sync() and sl_alloc() walk that table from slip_open() under
rtnl_lock(), while an entry is dropped by sl_free_netdev(), which
sl_setup() installs as dev->priv_destructor.
priv_destructor is called from netdev_run_todo(), which deliberately
runs with the RTNL semaphore released so that it can sleep while waiting
for the device refcount to drop:
[...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [net,v2] slip: fix use-after-free in sl_sync()
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/2c4e7c42d77e
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