In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rpmsg: char: Fix race between the release of rpmsg_ctrldev and cdev

struct rpmsg_ctrldev contains a struct cdev. The current code frees
the rpmsg_ctrldev struct in rpmsg_ctrldev_release_device(), but the
cdev is a managed object, therefore its release is not predictable
and the rpmsg_ctrldev could be freed before the cdev is entirely
released, as in the backtrace below.

[ 93.625603] ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: delayed_work_timer_fn+0x0/0x7c
[ 93.636115] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 12 at lib/debugobjects.c:488 debug_print_object+0x13c/0x1b0
[ 93.644799] Modules linked in: veth xt_cgroup xt_MASQUERADE rfcomm algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg uinput ip6table_nat fuse uvcvideo videobuf2_vmalloc venus_enc venus_dec videobuf2_dma_contig hci_uart btandroid btqca snd_soc_rt5682_i2c bluetooth qcom_spmi_temp_alarm snd_soc_rt5682v
[ 93.715175] CPU: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G B 5.4.163-lockdep #26
[ 93.723855] Hardware name: Google Lazor (rev3 – 8) with LTE (DT)
[ 93.730055] Workqueue: events kobject_delayed_cleanup
[ 93.735271] pstate: 60c00009 (nZCv daif +PAN +UAO)
[ 93.740216] pc : debug_print_object+0x13c/0x1b0
[ 93.744890] lr : debug_print_object+0x13c/0x1b0
[ 93.749555] sp : ffffffacf5bc7940
[ 93.752978] x29: ffffffacf5bc7940 x28: dfffffd000000000
[ 93.758448] x27: ffffffacdb11a800 x26: dfffffd000000000
[ 93.763916] x25: ffffffd0734f856c x24: dfffffd000000000
[ 93.769389] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: ffffffd0733c35b0
[ 93.774860] x21: ffffffd0751994a0 x20: ffffffd075ec27c0
[ 93.780338] x19: ffffffd075199100 x18: 00000000000276e0
[ 93.785814] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: dfffffd000000000
[ 93.791291] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: 6e6968207473696c
[ 93.796768] x13: 0000000000000000 x12: ffffffd075e2b000
[ 93.802244] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000000
[ 93.807723] x9 : d13400dff1921900 x8 : d13400dff1921900
[ 93.813200] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
[ 93.818676] x5 : 0000000000000080 x4 : 0000000000000000
[ 93.824152] x3 : ffffffd0732a0fa4 x2 : 0000000000000001
[ 93.829628] x1 : ffffffacf5bc7580 x0 : 0000000000000061
[ 93.835104] Call trace:
[ 93.837644] debug_print_object+0x13c/0x1b0
[ 93.841963] __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x25c/0x3c0
[ 93.846987] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x18/0x20
[ 93.851669] slab_free_freelist_hook+0xbc/0x1e4
[ 93.856346] kfree+0xfc/0x2f4
[ 93.859416] rpmsg_ctrldev_release_device+0x78/0xb8
[ 93.864445] device_release+0x84/0x168
[ 93.868310] kobject_cleanup+0x12c/0x298
[ 93.872356] kobject_delayed_cleanup+0x10/0x18
[ 93.876948] process_one_work+0x578/0x92c
[ 93.881086] worker_thread+0x804/0xcf8
[ 93.884963] kthread+0x2a8/0x314
[ 93.888303] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

The cdev_device_add/del() API was created to address this issue (see
commit ‘233ed09d7fda (“chardev: add helper function to register char
devs with a struct device”)’), use it instead of cdev add/del().