Re: [PATCH v3] kobject: fix uevent socket use-after-free on net namespace delete

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 11:38:26AM +0530, Adarsh Das wrote:
> @@ -804,14 +810,19 @@ static int uevent_net_init(struct net *net)
>  
>  static void uevent_net_exit(struct net *net)
>  {
> -	struct uevent_sock *ue_sk = net->uevent_sock;
> +	struct uevent_sock *ue_sk;
>  
> -	if (sock_net(ue_sk->sk)->user_ns == &init_user_ns) {
> -		mutex_lock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
> -		list_del(&ue_sk->list);
> -		mutex_unlock(&uevent_sock_mutex);
> +	{
> +		guard(mutex)(&uevent_sock_mutex);

LLMs don't know how to use these correctly, shouldn't this just be a
scoped_guard()?  No extra {} like that please, it's not normal kernel
coding style at all.

thanks,

greg k-h