The VFS calls kill_sb() also in case mount fails in get_tree(). Add the missing check to make sure that efivars has been registered also to kill_sb() to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer when trying to remove efivar entries. Fixes: c3fd71b428b8 ("efivarfs: always register filesystem") Reported-by: Steev Klimaszewski <steev@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/efivarfs/super.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c index b67d431c861a..482d612b716b 100644 --- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c +++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c @@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ static void efivarfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb) { kill_litter_super(sb); + if (!efivar_is_available()) + return; + /* Remove all entries and destroy */ efivar_entry_iter(efivarfs_destroy, &efivarfs_list, NULL); } -- 2.39.1