This calls kfree(reporter); before dereferencing reporter on the next line when it does mutex_unlock(&reporter->devlink->lock); Fixes: 880ee82f0313 ("devlink: Add health reporter create/destroy functionality") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/devlink.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/devlink.c b/net/core/devlink.c index 60248a53c0ad..deccce13285a 100644 --- a/net/core/devlink.c +++ b/net/core/devlink.c @@ -4223,14 +4223,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devlink_health_reporter_create); void devlink_health_reporter_destroy(struct devlink_health_reporter *reporter) { - mutex_lock(&reporter->devlink->lock); + struct devlink *devlink = reporter->devlink; + + mutex_lock(&devlink->lock); list_del(&reporter->list); devlink_health_buffers_destroy(reporter->dump_buffers_array, DEVLINK_HEALTH_SIZE_TO_BUFFERS(reporter->ops->dump_size)); devlink_health_buffers_destroy(reporter->diagnose_buffers_array, DEVLINK_HEALTH_SIZE_TO_BUFFERS(reporter->ops->diagnose_size)); kfree(reporter); - mutex_unlock(&reporter->devlink->lock); + mutex_unlock(&devlink->lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devlink_health_reporter_destroy); -- 2.17.1