From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Move the kfree after a reference to the freed structure. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x,e; identifier f; iterator I; statement S; @@ *kfree(x); ... when != &x when != x = e when != I(x,...) S *x->f // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c index 4967643..18c625c 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/dpt_i2o.c @@ -1229,12 +1229,13 @@ static void adpt_i2o_delete_hba(adpt_hba* pHba) } } pci_dev_put(pHba->pDev); - kfree(pHba); if (adpt_sysfs_class) device_destroy(adpt_sysfs_class, MKDEV(DPTI_I2O_MAJOR, pHba->unit)); + kfree(pHba); + if(hba_count <= 0){ unregister_chrdev(DPTI_I2O_MAJOR, DPT_DRIVER); if (adpt_sysfs_class) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html