If ulite_probe is not called or failed to registed uart_register_driver, unload the module will call uart_unregister_driver, which will tigger NULL pointer dereference like this: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in tty_unregister_driver+0x19/0x100 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000034 by task syz-executor.0/4246 CPU: 0 PID: 4246 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G C 5.1.0+ #26 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack+0xa9/0x10e ? tty_unregister_driver+0x19/0x100 ? tty_unregister_driver+0x19/0x100 __kasan_report+0x171/0x18d ? tty_unregister_driver+0x19/0x100 kasan_report+0xe/0x20 tty_unregister_driver+0x19/0x100 uart_unregister_driver+0x30/0xc0 __x64_sys_delete_module+0x244/0x330 ? __ia32_sys_delete_module+0x330/0x330 ? __x64_sys_clock_gettime+0xe3/0x160 ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x3e/0x130 ? lockdep_hardirqs_off+0xb5/0x100 ? mark_held_locks+0x1a/0x90 ? do_syscall_64+0x14/0x2a0 do_syscall_64+0x72/0x2a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe This patch fix this by moving uart_unregister_driver to ulite_remove. Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 415b43bdb008 ("tty: serial: uartlite: Move uart register to probe") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c b/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c index b8b912b..2e49fb6 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/uartlite.c @@ -867,6 +867,7 @@ static int ulite_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev); pm_runtime_set_suspended(&pdev->dev); pm_runtime_dont_use_autosuspend(&pdev->dev); + uart_unregister_driver(&ulite_uart_driver); return rc; } @@ -897,7 +898,6 @@ static int __init ulite_init(void) static void __exit ulite_exit(void) { platform_driver_unregister(&ulite_platform_driver); - uart_unregister_driver(&ulite_uart_driver); } module_init(ulite_init); -- 1.8.3.1