If allocation of auxr_dev fails during auxiliary device setup, the error path calls auxiliary_device_uninit(), which eventually invokes bnge_aux_dev_release(). The release callback unconditionally dereferences aux_priv->auxr_dev->pdev to retrieve the parent bnge_dev. Since auxr_dev has not yet been allocated on this failure path, the dereference results in a NULL pointer exception Retrieve the parent bnge_dev from the auxiliary device's parent instead of auxr_dev, and free auxr_dev only when it was successfully allocated. This allows the release callback to correctly clean up partially initialized auxiliary devices. Fixes: 8ac050ec3b1c ("bng_en: Add RoCE aux device support") Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c index 67e93e17d4d9..0955b488b6fe 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnge/bnge_auxr.c @@ -141,12 +141,15 @@ static void bnge_aux_dev_release(struct device *dev) { struct bnge_auxr_priv *aux_priv = container_of(dev, struct bnge_auxr_priv, aux_dev.dev); - struct bnge_dev *bd = pci_get_drvdata(aux_priv->auxr_dev->pdev); + struct bnge_auxr_dev *auxr_dev = aux_priv->auxr_dev; + struct bnge_dev *bd = pci_get_drvdata(to_pci_dev(dev->parent)); ida_free(&bnge_aux_dev_ids, aux_priv->id); - kfree(aux_priv->auxr_dev->auxr_info); + if (auxr_dev) { + kfree(auxr_dev->auxr_info); + kfree(auxr_dev); + } bd->auxr_dev = NULL; - kfree(aux_priv->auxr_dev); kfree(aux_priv); bd->aux_priv = NULL; } -- 2.52.0