Attempting to remove the driver will cause a crash in cases where the vport failed to initialize. Following trace is from an instance where the driver failed during an attempt to create a VF: [ 1661.543624] idpf 0000:84:00.7: Device HW Reset initiated [ 1722.923726] idpf 0000:84:00.7: Transaction timed-out (op:1 cookie:2900 vc_op:1 salt:29 timeout:60000ms) [ 1723.353263] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 ... [ 1723.358472] RIP: 0010:idpf_remove+0x11c/0x200 [idpf] ... [ 1723.364973] Call Trace: [ 1723.365475] [ 1723.365972] pci_device_remove+0x42/0xb0 [ 1723.366481] device_release_driver_internal+0x1a9/0x210 [ 1723.366987] pci_stop_bus_device+0x6d/0x90 [ 1723.367488] pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x12/0x20 [ 1723.367971] pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0xbd/0x120 [ 1723.368309] sriov_disable+0x34/0xe0 [ 1723.368643] idpf_sriov_configure+0x58/0x140 [idpf] [ 1723.368982] sriov_numvfs_store+0xda/0x1c0 Avoid the NULL pointer dereference by adding NULL pointer check for vport_config[i], before freeing user_config.q_coalesce. Fixes: e1e3fec3e34b ("idpf: preserve coalescing settings across resets") Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov Reviewed-by: Chittim Madhu --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c index 8c46481d2e1f..8cf4ff697572 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_main.c @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ static void idpf_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) destroy_workqueue(adapter->vc_event_wq); for (i = 0; i < adapter->max_vports; i++) { + if (!adapter->vport_config[i]) + continue; kfree(adapter->vport_config[i]->user_config.q_coalesce); kfree(adapter->vport_config[i]); adapter->vport_config[i] = NULL; -- 2.37.3