It's possible that during ->exit() the private_data is NULL, for instance when there was no GPIO device instantiated. Due to this we may not dereference it. Add a respective check. Note, for now ->exit() only makes sense when GPIO device was instantiated, that's why we may use the check for entire function. Fixes: 81171e7d31a6 ("serial: 8250_exar: Constify the software nodes") Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c index 2f49c580139b..bd4e9f6ac29c 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c @@ -553,7 +553,11 @@ static void pci_xr17v35x_exit(struct pci_dev *pcidev) { struct exar8250 *priv = pci_get_drvdata(pcidev); struct uart_8250_port *port = serial8250_get_port(priv->line[0]); - struct platform_device *pdev = port->port.private_data; + struct platform_device *pdev; + + pdev = port->port.private_data; + if (!pdev) + return; device_remove_software_node(&pdev->dev); platform_device_unregister(pdev); -- 2.30.2