netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Call dev_hold always in rx_queue_add

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Date:   Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:09:30 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
To:     jouni.hogander@...kie.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Call dev_hold always in rx_queue_add_kobject

On 2019/12/17 17:44, jouni.hogander@...kie.com wrote:
> From: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@...kie.com>
> 
> Dev_hold has to be called always in rx_queue_add_kobject.
> Otherwise usage count drops below 0 in case of failure in
> kobject_init_and_add.
> 
> Fixes: b8eb718348b8 ("net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject")
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>

This bug was originally reported by

  syzbot <syzbot+30209ea299c09d8785c9@...kaller.appspotmail.com>

and forwarded by me. Who is "Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>" ?