During the last close we are freeing spidev if spidev->spi is NULL, but just before checking if spidev->spi is NULL we are dereferencing it. Lets add a check there to avoid the NULL dereference. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spidev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spidev.c b/drivers/spi/spidev.c index fba92a5..ef008e5 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c @@ -651,7 +651,8 @@ static int spidev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) kfree(spidev->rx_buffer); spidev->rx_buffer = NULL; - spidev->speed_hz = spidev->spi->max_speed_hz; + if (spidev->spi) + spidev->speed_hz = spidev->spi->max_speed_hz; /* ... after we unbound from the underlying device? */ spin_lock_irq(&spidev->spi_lock); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html