From: Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo@xxxxxxxxxx> In tpm2_del_space() the sessions are flushed by means of the tpm_chip operations. However the concerning operations pointer my already be NULL at this time in case that the chip has been unregistered (see tpm_chip_unregister() which calls tpm_del_char_device() which sets chip->ops to NULL). Avoid the NULL pointer access by first calling tpm_try_get_ops() to check if the operations pointer is still valid and skipping the session flushing in case of an unregistered chip. Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <l.sanfilippo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c index 784b8b3..ea6eee9 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm2-space.c @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ int tpm2_init_space(struct tpm_space *space, unsigned int buf_size) void tpm2_del_space(struct tpm_chip *chip, struct tpm_space *space) { mutex_lock(&chip->tpm_mutex); - if (!tpm_chip_start(chip)) { + if (!tpm_try_get_ops(chip) && !tpm_chip_start(chip)) { tpm2_flush_sessions(chip, space); tpm_chip_stop(chip); } -- 2.7.4