CVE-2026-68381

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The\nwork only increments conn->r_count, which prevents teardown from passing\nthe pending-request wait after the increment, but it does not pin the\nstruct ksmbd_conn object.\n\nIf connection teardown races with an oplock break notification, the last\nconn reference can be dropped before the queued worker finishes. The\nworker then uses the freed conn in ksmbd_conn_write() and\nksmbd_conn_r_count_dec().\n\nTake a real conn reference when publishing the conn pointer to the async\nwork item, and drop it after the notification work has decremented\nr_count. 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