------------[ cut here ]------------ refcount_t: decrement hit 0; leaking memory. WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 20 at lib/refcount.c:31 refcount_warn_saturate+0xbf/0x1e0 lib/refcount.c:31 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 20 Comm: kworker/1:0 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Workqueue: events linkwatch_event RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0xbf/0x1e0 lib/refcount.c:31 Code: 1d 3a fb a1 09 31 ff 89 de e8 bd f6 9c fd 84 db 75 e0 e8 d4 f2 9c fd 48 c7 c7 a0 d2 04 8a c6 05 1a fb a1 09 01 e8 7b fb 32 05 <0f> 0b eb c4 e8 b8 f2 9c fd 0f b6 1d 09 fb a1 09 31 ff 89 de e8 88 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000da7c28 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff8880119e8000 RSI: ffffffff815f5aa8 RDI: fffff520001b4f77 RBP: 0000000000000004 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffffffff815ef87e R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888032ce45b0 R13: 0000000000000041 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff888032ce4000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f6400c9c010 CR3: 000000003c323000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 Call Trace: __refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:344 [inline] refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:359 [inline] dev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4166 [inline] linkwatch_do_dev+0x134/0x150 net/core/link_watch.c:169 __linkwatch_run_queue+0x233/0x6a0 net/core/link_watch.c:213 linkwatch_event+0x4a/0x60 net/core/link_watch.c:252 process_one_work+0x9b2/0x1690 kernel/workqueue.c:2298 worker_thread+0x658/0x11f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2445 kthread+0x405/0x4f0 kernel/kthread.c:327 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:295