Hello, syzbot has tested the proposed patch but the reproducer is still triggering an issue: unregister_netdevice: waiting for DEV to become free unregister_netdevice: waiting for batadv0 to become free. Usage count = 3 Tested on: commit: c7fffb8c netfs: Fix wait/wake to be consistent about t.. git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git netfs-fixes console output: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/log.txt?x=15722a4c580000 kernel config: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/x/.config?x=95c3bbe7ce8436a7 dashboard link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=62262fdc0e01d99573fc compiler: gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40 Note: no patches were applied.