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CVSS v3.1 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: pcie: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
It is possible that iwl_pci_probe() will fail and free the trans,
then afterwards iwl_pci_remove() will be called and crash by trying
to access trans which is already freed, fix it.
iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Detected crf-id 0xa5a5a5a2, cnv-id 0xa5a5a5a2
wfpm id 0xa5a5a5a2
iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Can't find a correct rfid for crf id 0x5a2
...
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
...
RIP: 0010:iwl_pci_remove+0x12/0x30 [iwlwifi]
pci_device_remove+0x3e/0xb0
device_release_driver_internal+0x103/0x1f0
driver_detach+0x4c/0x90
bus_remove_driver+0x5c/0xd0
driver_unregister+0x31/0x50
pci_unregister_driver+0x40/0x90
iwl_pci_unregister_driver+0x15/0x20 [iwlwifi]
__exit_compat+0x9/0x98 [iwlwifi]
__x64_sys_delete_module+0x147/0x260 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/irdma: Fix memory leak of PBLE objects
On rmmod of irdma, the PBLE object memory is not being freed. PBLE object
memory are not statically pre-allocated at function initialization time
unlike other HMC objects. PBLEs objects and the Segment Descriptors (SD)
for it can be dynamically allocated during scale up and SD's remain
allocated till function deinitialization.
Fix this leak by adding IRDMA_HMC_IW_PBLE to the iw_hmc_obj_types[] table
and skip pbles in irdma_create_hmc_obj but not in irdma_del_hmc_objects(). |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kheaders: Use array declaration instead of char
Under CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE, memcpy() will check the size of destination
and source buffers. Defining kernel_headers_data as "char" would trip
this check. Since these addresses are treated as byte arrays, define
them as arrays (as done everywhere else).
This was seen with:
$ cat /sys/kernel/kheaders.tar.xz >> /dev/null
detected buffer overflow in memcpy
kernel BUG at lib/string_helpers.c:1027!
...
RIP: 0010:fortify_panic+0xf/0x20
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ikheaders_read+0x45/0x50 [kheaders]
kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x1a4/0x2f0
... |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd: Add a length limitation for the ivrs_acpihid command-line parameter
The 'acpiid' buffer in the parse_ivrs_acpihid function may overflow,
because the string specifier in the format string sscanf()
has no width limitation.
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
firmware: arm_ffa: Check if ffa_driver remove is present before executing
Currently ffa_drv->remove() is called unconditionally from
ffa_device_remove(). Since the driver registration doesn't check for it
and allows it to be registered without .remove callback, we need to check
for the presence of it before executing it from ffa_device_remove() to
above a NULL pointer dereference like the one below:
| Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
| Mem abort info:
| ESR = 0x0000000086000004
| EC = 0x21: IABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
| SET = 0, FnV = 0
| EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
| FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
| user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000881cc8000
| [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
| Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
| CPU: 3 PID: 130 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7 #6
| Hardware name: FVP Base RevC (DT)
| pstate: 63402809 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=-c)
| pc : 0x0
| lr : ffa_device_remove+0x20/0x2c
| Call trace:
| 0x0
| device_release_driver_internal+0x16c/0x260
| driver_detach+0x90/0xd0
| bus_remove_driver+0xdc/0x11c
| driver_unregister+0x30/0x54
| ffa_driver_unregister+0x14/0x20
| cleanup_module+0x18/0xeec
| __arm64_sys_delete_module+0x234/0x378
| invoke_syscall+0x40/0x108
| el0_svc_common+0xb4/0xf0
| do_el0_svc+0x30/0xa4
| el0_svc+0x2c/0x7c
| el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0
| el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: mediatek: mtk-svs: Enable the IRQ later
If the system does not come from reset (like when is booted via
kexec()), the peripheral might triger an IRQ before the data structures
are initialised.
[ 0.227710] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000f08
[ 0.227913] Call trace:
[ 0.227918] svs_isr+0x8c/0x538 |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipmi:ssif: Fix a memory leak when scanning for an adapter
The adapter scan ssif_info_find() sets info->adapter_name if the adapter
info came from SMBIOS, as it's not set in that case. However, this
function can be called more than once, and it will leak the adapter name
if it had already been set. So check for NULL before setting it. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: mpi3mr: Fix missing mrioc->evtack_cmds initialization
Commit c1af985d27da ("scsi: mpi3mr: Add Event acknowledgment logic")
introduced an array mrioc->evtack_cmds but initialization of the array
elements was missed. They are just zero cleared. The function
mpi3mr_complete_evt_ack() refers host_tag field of the elements. Due to the
zero value of the host_tag field, the function calls clear_bit() for
mrico->evtack_cmds_bitmap with wrong bit index. This results in memory
access to invalid address and "BUG: KASAN: use-after-free". This BUG was
observed at eHBA-9600 firmware update to version 8.3.1.0. To fix it, add
the missing initialization of mrioc->evtack_cmds. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: stop parsing non-compact HEAD index if clusterofs is invalid
Syzbot generated a crafted image [1] with a non-compact HEAD index of
clusterofs 33024 while valid numbers should be 0 ~ lclustersize-1,
which causes the following unexpected behavior as below:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffff52101a3fff9
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 23ffed067 P4D 23ffed067 PUD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
CPU: 1 PID: 4398 Comm: kworker/u5:1 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc6-syzkaller-g09a9639e56c0 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/30/2023
Workqueue: erofs_worker z_erofs_decompressqueue_work
RIP: 0010:z_erofs_decompress_queue+0xb7e/0x2b40
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
z_erofs_decompressqueue_work+0x99/0xe0
process_one_work+0x8f6/0x1170
worker_thread+0xa63/0x1210
kthread+0x270/0x300
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Note that normal images or images using compact indexes are not
impacted. Let's fix this now.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000ec75b005ee97fbaa@google.com |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: realtek: fix out-of-bounds access
The probe function sets priv->chip_data to (void *)priv + sizeof(*priv)
with the expectation that priv has enough trailing space.
However, only realtek-smi actually allocated this chip_data space.
Do likewise in realtek-mdio to fix out-of-bounds accesses.
These accesses likely went unnoticed so far, because of an (unused)
buf[4096] member in struct realtek_priv, which caused kmalloc to
round up the allocated buffer to a big enough size, so nothing of
value was overwritten. With a different allocator (like in the barebox
bootloader port of the driver) or with KASAN, the memory corruption
becomes quickly apparent. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: dvb-usb-v2: gl861: Fix null-ptr-deref in gl861_i2c_master_xfer
In gl861_i2c_master_xfer, msg is controlled by user. When msg[i].buf
is null and msg[i].len is zero, former checks on msg[i].buf would be
passed. Malicious data finally reach gl861_i2c_master_xfer. If accessing
msg[i].buf[0] without sanity check, null ptr deref would happen.
We add check on msg[i].len to prevent crash.
Similar commit:
commit 0ed554fd769a
("media: dvb-usb: az6027: fix null-ptr-deref in az6027_i2c_xfer()") |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
igb: clean up in all error paths when enabling SR-IOV
After commit 50f303496d92 ("igb: Enable SR-IOV after reinit"), removing
the igb module could hang or crash (depending on the machine) when the
module has been loaded with the max_vfs parameter set to some value != 0.
In case of one test machine with a dual port 82580, this hang occurred:
[ 232.480687] igb 0000:41:00.1: removed PHC on enp65s0f1
[ 233.093257] igb 0000:41:00.1: IOV Disabled
[ 233.329969] pcieport 0000:40:01.0: AER: Multiple Uncorrected (Non-Fatal) err0
[ 233.340302] igb 0000:41:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fata)
[ 233.352248] igb 0000:41:00.0: device [8086:1516] error status/mask=00100000
[ 233.361088] igb 0000:41:00.0: [20] UnsupReq (First)
[ 233.368183] igb 0000:41:00.0: AER: TLP Header: 40000001 0000040f cdbfc00c c
[ 233.376846] igb 0000:41:00.1: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected (Non-Fata)
[ 233.388779] igb 0000:41:00.1: device [8086:1516] error status/mask=00100000
[ 233.397629] igb 0000:41:00.1: [20] UnsupReq (First)
[ 233.404736] igb 0000:41:00.1: AER: TLP Header: 40000001 0000040f cdbfc00c c
[ 233.538214] pci 0000:41:00.1: AER: can't recover (no error_detected callback)
[ 233.538401] igb 0000:41:00.0: removed PHC on enp65s0f0
[ 233.546197] pcieport 0000:40:01.0: AER: device recovery failed
[ 234.157244] igb 0000:41:00.0: IOV Disabled
[ 371.619705] INFO: task irq/35-aerdrv:257 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
[ 371.627489] Not tainted 6.4.0-dirty #2
[ 371.632257] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this.
[ 371.641000] task:irq/35-aerdrv state:D stack:0 pid:257 ppid:2 f0
[ 371.650330] Call Trace:
[ 371.653061] <TASK>
[ 371.655407] __schedule+0x20e/0x660
[ 371.659313] schedule+0x5a/0xd0
[ 371.662824] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x11/0x20
[ 371.667983] __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x372/0x6c0
[ 371.673237] ? __pfx_aer_root_reset+0x10/0x10
[ 371.678105] report_error_detected+0x25/0x1c0
[ 371.682974] ? __pfx_report_normal_detected+0x10/0x10
[ 371.688618] pci_walk_bus+0x72/0x90
[ 371.692519] pcie_do_recovery+0xb2/0x330
[ 371.696899] aer_process_err_devices+0x117/0x170
[ 371.702055] aer_isr+0x1c0/0x1e0
[ 371.705661] ? __set_cpus_allowed_ptr+0x54/0xa0
[ 371.710723] ? __pfx_irq_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
[ 371.715496] irq_thread_fn+0x20/0x60
[ 371.719491] irq_thread+0xe6/0x1b0
[ 371.723291] ? __pfx_irq_thread_dtor+0x10/0x10
[ 371.728255] ? __pfx_irq_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 371.732731] kthread+0xe2/0x110
[ 371.736243] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 371.740430] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
[ 371.744428] </TASK>
The reproducer was a simple script:
#!/bin/sh
for i in `seq 1 5`; do
modprobe -rv igb
modprobe -v igb max_vfs=1
sleep 1
modprobe -rv igb
done
It turned out that this could only be reproduce on 82580 (quad and
dual-port), but not on 82576, i350 and i210. Further debugging showed
that igb_enable_sriov()'s call to pci_enable_sriov() is failing, because
dev->is_physfn is 0 on 82580.
Prior to commit 50f303496d92 ("igb: Enable SR-IOV after reinit"),
igb_enable_sriov() jumped into the "err_out" cleanup branch. After this
commit it only returned the error code.
So the cleanup didn't take place, and the incorrect VF setup in the
igb_adapter structure fooled the igb driver into assuming that VFs have
been set up where no VF actually existed.
Fix this problem by cleaning up again if pci_enable_sriov() fails. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/sched: Fix deadlock in drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb
The Mesa issue referenced below pointed out a possible deadlock:
[ 1231.611031] Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:
[ 1231.611033] CPU0 CPU1
[ 1231.611034] ---- ----
[ 1231.611035] lock(&xa->xa_lock#17);
[ 1231.611038] local_irq_disable();
[ 1231.611039] lock(&fence->lock);
[ 1231.611041] lock(&xa->xa_lock#17);
[ 1231.611044] <Interrupt>
[ 1231.611045] lock(&fence->lock);
[ 1231.611047]
*** DEADLOCK ***
In this example, CPU0 would be any function accessing job->dependencies
through the xa_* functions that don't disable interrupts (eg:
drm_sched_job_add_dependency(), drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb()).
CPU1 is executing drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb() as a fence signalling
callback so in an interrupt context. It will deadlock when trying to
grab the xa_lock which is already held by CPU0.
Replacing all xa_* usage by their xa_*_irq counterparts would fix
this issue, but Christian pointed out another issue: dma_fence_signal
takes fence.lock and so does dma_fence_add_callback.
dma_fence_signal() // locks f1.lock
-> drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb()
-> foreach dependencies
-> dma_fence_add_callback() // locks f2.lock
This will deadlock if f1 and f2 share the same spinlock.
To fix both issues, the code iterating on dependencies and re-arming them
is moved out to drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_work().
[phasta: commit message nits] |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mlx5: fix skb leak while fifo resync and push
During ptp resync operation SKBs were poped from the fifo but were never
freed neither by napi_consume nor by dev_kfree_skb_any. Add call to
napi_consume_skb to properly free SKBs.
Another leak was happening because mlx5e_skb_fifo_has_room() had an error
in the check. Comparing free running counters works well unless C promotes
the types to something wider than the counter. In this case counters are
u16 but the result of the substraction is promouted to int and it causes
wrong result (negative value) of the check when producer have already
overlapped but consumer haven't yet. Explicit cast to u16 fixes the issue. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix potential UAF in smb2_close_cached_fid()
find_or_create_cached_dir() could grab a new reference after kref_put()
had seen the refcount drop to zero but before cfid_list_lock is acquired
in smb2_close_cached_fid(), leading to use-after-free.
Switch to kref_put_lock() so cfid_release() is called with
cfid_list_lock held, closing that gap. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSD: Define actions for the new time_deleg FATTR4 attributes
NFSv4 clients won't send legitimate GETATTR requests for these new
attributes because they are intended to be used only with CB_GETATTR
and SETATTR. But NFSD has to do something besides crashing if it
ever sees a GETATTR request that queries these attributes.
RFC 8881 Section 18.7.3 states:
> The server MUST return a value for each attribute that the client
> requests if the attribute is supported by the server for the
> target file system. If the server does not support a particular
> attribute on the target file system, then it MUST NOT return the
> attribute value and MUST NOT set the attribute bit in the result
> bitmap. The server MUST return an error if it supports an
> attribute on the target but cannot obtain its value. In that case,
> no attribute values will be returned.
Further, RFC 9754 Section 5 states:
> These new attributes are invalid to be used with GETATTR, VERIFY,
> and NVERIFY, and they can only be used with CB_GETATTR and SETATTR
> by a client holding an appropriate delegation.
Thus there does not appear to be a specific server response mandated
by specification. Taking the guidance that querying these attributes
via GETATTR is "invalid", NFSD will return nfserr_inval, failing the
request entirely. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg().
syzkaller found a memory leak in kcm_sendmsg(), and commit c821a88bd720
("kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()") suppressed it by
updating kcm_tx_msg(head)->last_skb if partial data is copied so that the
following sendmsg() will resume from the skb.
However, we cannot know how many bytes were copied when we get the error.
Thus, we could mess up the MSG_MORE queue.
When kcm_sendmsg() fails for SOCK_DGRAM, we should purge the queue as we
do so for UDP by udp_flush_pending_frames().
Even without this change, when the error occurred, the following sendmsg()
resumed from a wrong skb and the queue was messed up. However, we have
yet to get such a report, and only syzkaller stumbled on it. So, this
can be changed safely.
Note this does not change SOCK_SEQPACKET behaviour. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfat: fix missing sb_min_blocksize() return value checks
When emulating an nvme device on qemu with both logical_block_size and
physical_block_size set to 8 KiB, but without format, a kernel panic
was triggered during the early boot stage while attempting to mount a
vfat filesystem.
[95553.682035] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1): unable to set blocksize
[95553.684326] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1): unable to set blocksize
[95553.686501] EXT4-fs (nvme0n1): unable to set blocksize
[95553.696448] ISOFS: unsupported/invalid hardware sector size 8192
[95553.697117] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[95553.697567] kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1582!
[95553.697984] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[95553.698602] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 7212 Comm: mount Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.18.0-rc2+ #38 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[95553.699511] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[95553.700534] RIP: 0010:folio_alloc_buffers+0x1bb/0x1c0
[95553.701018] Code: 48 8b 15 e8 93 18 02 65 48 89 35 e0 93 18 02 48 83 c4 10 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d 31 d2 31 c9 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b 90 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f
[95553.702648] RSP: 0018:ffffd1b0c676f990 EFLAGS: 00010246
[95553.703132] RAX: ffff8cfc4176d820 RBX: 0000000000508c48 RCX: 0000000000000001
[95553.703805] RDX: 0000000000002000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[95553.704481] RBP: ffffd1b0c676f9c8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[95553.705148] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
[95553.705816] R13: 0000000000002000 R14: fffff8bc8257e800 R15: 0000000000000000
[95553.706483] FS: 000072ee77315840(0000) GS:ffff8cfdd2c8d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[95553.707248] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[95553.707782] CR2: 00007d8f2a9e5a20 CR3: 0000000039d0c006 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
[95553.708439] PKRU: 55555554
[95553.708734] Call Trace:
[95553.709015] <TASK>
[95553.709266] __getblk_slow+0xd2/0x230
[95553.709641] ? find_get_block_common+0x8b/0x530
[95553.710084] bdev_getblk+0x77/0xa0
[95553.710449] __bread_gfp+0x22/0x140
[95553.710810] fat_fill_super+0x23a/0xfc0
[95553.711216] ? __pfx_setup+0x10/0x10
[95553.711580] ? __pfx_vfat_fill_super+0x10/0x10
[95553.712014] vfat_fill_super+0x15/0x30
[95553.712401] get_tree_bdev_flags+0x141/0x1e0
[95553.712817] get_tree_bdev+0x10/0x20
[95553.713177] vfat_get_tree+0x15/0x20
[95553.713550] vfs_get_tree+0x2a/0x100
[95553.713910] vfs_cmd_create+0x62/0xf0
[95553.714273] __do_sys_fsconfig+0x4e7/0x660
[95553.714669] __x64_sys_fsconfig+0x20/0x40
[95553.715062] x64_sys_call+0x21ee/0x26a0
[95553.715453] do_syscall_64+0x80/0x670
[95553.715816] ? __fs_parse+0x65/0x1e0
[95553.716172] ? fat_parse_param+0x103/0x4b0
[95553.716587] ? vfs_parse_fs_param_source+0x21/0xa0
[95553.717034] ? __do_sys_fsconfig+0x3d9/0x660
[95553.717548] ? __x64_sys_fsconfig+0x20/0x40
[95553.717957] ? x64_sys_call+0x21ee/0x26a0
[95553.718360] ? do_syscall_64+0xb8/0x670
[95553.718734] ? __x64_sys_fsconfig+0x20/0x40
[95553.719141] ? x64_sys_call+0x21ee/0x26a0
[95553.719545] ? do_syscall_64+0xb8/0x670
[95553.719922] ? x64_sys_call+0x1405/0x26a0
[95553.720317] ? do_syscall_64+0xb8/0x670
[95553.720702] ? __x64_sys_close+0x3e/0x90
[95553.721080] ? x64_sys_call+0x1b5e/0x26a0
[95553.721478] ? do_syscall_64+0xb8/0x670
[95553.721841] ? irqentry_exit+0x43/0x50
[95553.722211] ? exc_page_fault+0x90/0x1b0
[95553.722681] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[95553.723166] RIP: 0033:0x72ee774f3afe
[95553.723562] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 0a 33 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 af 01 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d da 32 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[95553.725188] RSP: 002b:00007ffe97148978 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001af
[95553.725892] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX:
---truncated--- |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix race in hci_cmd_sync_dequeue_once
hci_cmd_sync_dequeue_once() does lookup and then cancel
the entry under two separate lock sections. Meanwhile,
hci_cmd_sync_work() can also delete the same entry,
leading to double list_del() and "UAF".
Fix this by holding cmd_sync_work_lock across both
lookup and cancel, so that the entry cannot be removed
concurrently. |
| In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/mediatek: Fix device use-after-free on unbind
A recent change fixed device reference leaks when looking up drm
platform device driver data during bind() but failed to remove a partial
fix which had been added by commit 80805b62ea5b ("drm/mediatek: Fix
kobject put for component sub-drivers").
This results in a reference imbalance on component bind() failures and
on unbind() which could lead to a user-after-free.
Make sure to only drop the references after retrieving the driver data
by effectively reverting the previous partial fix.
Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver
data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference. |
