If device probe fails, driver remains bound to the PCI device. However, driver data has been reset to NULL. This causes crash upon dereferencing it in nicvf_remove()
Signed-off-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fe...@samsung.com> --- v1 => v2: - Do the test in nicvf_remove(), this allows to cover more situations --- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c index a937772..7f709cb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_main.c @@ -1583,8 +1583,14 @@ err_disable_device: static void nicvf_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) { struct net_device *netdev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev); - struct nicvf *nic = netdev_priv(netdev); - struct net_device *pnetdev = nic->pnicvf->netdev; + struct nicvf *nic; + struct net_device *pnetdev; + + if (!netdev) + return; + + nic = netdev_priv(netdev); + pnetdev = nic->pnicvf->netdev; /* Check if this Qset is assigned to different VF. * If yes, clean primary and all secondary Qsets. -- 2.4.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html