The rpmsg_dev_remove() in rpmsg_core is the place for releasing this default endpoint. So need to avoid destroying the default endpoint in rpmsg_chrdev_eptdev_destroy(), this should be the same as rpmsg_eptdev_release(). Otherwise there will be double destroy issue that ept->refcount report warning: refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. Call trace: refcount_warn_saturate+0xf8/0x150 virtio_rpmsg_destroy_ept+0xd4/0xec rpmsg_dev_remove+0x60/0x70 The issue can be reproduced by stopping remoteproc before closing the /dev/rpmsgX. Fixes: bea9b79c2d10 ("rpmsg: char: Add possibility to use default endpoint of the rpmsg device") Signed-off-by: Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- changes in v2: - Add comments drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c index 0850ae34fb88..3e0b8f3496ed 100644 --- a/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/rpmsg_char.c @@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ int rpmsg_chrdev_eptdev_destroy(struct device *dev, void *data) mutex_lock(&eptdev->ept_lock); if (eptdev->ept) { - rpmsg_destroy_ept(eptdev->ept); + /* The default endpoint is released by the rpmsg core */ + if (!eptdev->default_ept) + rpmsg_destroy_ept(eptdev->ept); eptdev->ept = NULL; } mutex_unlock(&eptdev->ept_lock); -- 2.34.1