Hello Alexandre Bounine, The patch e8de370188d0: "rapidio: add mport char device driver" from Mar 22, 2016, leads to the following Smatch static checker warning: drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c:2185 mport_mm_close() error: dereferencing freed memory 'map' drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c 2178 static void mport_mm_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma) 2179 { 2180 struct rio_mport_mapping *map = vma->vm_private_data; 2181 2182 rmcd_debug(MMAP, "%pad", &map->phys_addr); 2183 mutex_lock(&map->md->buf_mutex); 2184 kref_put(&map->ref, mport_release_mapping); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The mport_release_mapping() function frees "map". --> 2185 mutex_unlock(&map->md->buf_mutex); ^^^ Use after free. 2186 } regards, dan carpenter