We should move the ops->destroy(dev) after the list_del(&dev->vm_node) so that we don't use "dev" after freeing it. Fixes: a28ebea2adc4 ("KVM: Protect device ops->create and list_add with kvm->lock") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 69a1247..de102ca 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -2899,10 +2899,10 @@ static int kvm_ioctl_create_device(struct kvm *kvm, ret = anon_inode_getfd(ops->name, &kvm_device_fops, dev, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); if (ret < 0) { - ops->destroy(dev); mutex_lock(&kvm->lock); list_del(&dev->vm_node); mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock); + ops->destroy(dev); return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html