[ Upstream commit5d5602236f] syzbot is still reporting unregister_netdevice: waiting for vcan0 to become free. Usage count = 2 even after commit93a27b5891("can: j1939: add missing calls in NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler") was added. A debug printk() patch found that j1939_session_activate() can succeed even after j1939_cancel_active_session() from j1939_netdev_notify(NETDEV_UNREGISTER) has completed. Since j1939_cancel_active_session() is processed with the session list lock held, checking ndev->reg_state in j1939_session_activate() with the session list lock held can reliably close the race window. Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+881d65229ca4f9ae8c84@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=881d65229ca4f9ae8c84 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/b9653191-d479-4c8b-8536-1326d028db5c@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>