From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> fsl_lpspi_probe() is allocating/disposing memory manually with spi_alloc_host()/spi_alloc_target(), but uses devm_spi_register_controller(). In case of error after the latter call the memory will be explicitly freed in the probe function by spi_controller_put() call, but used afterwards by "devm" management outside probe() (spi_unregister_controller() <- devm_spi_unregister() below). Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000070 ... Call trace: kernfs_find_ns kernfs_find_and_get_ns sysfs_remove_group sysfs_remove_groups device_remove_attrs device_del spi_unregister_controller devm_spi_unregister release_nodes devres_release_all really_probe driver_probe_device __device_attach_driver bus_for_each_drv __device_attach device_initial_probe bus_probe_device deferred_probe_work_func process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork Fixes: 5314987de5e5 ("spi: imx: add lpspi bus driver") Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c index 11991eb126364..079035db7dd85 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi-fsl-lpspi.c @@ -830,11 +830,11 @@ static int fsl_lpspi_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) is_target = of_property_read_bool((&pdev->dev)->of_node, "spi-slave"); if (is_target) - controller = spi_alloc_target(&pdev->dev, - sizeof(struct fsl_lpspi_data)); + controller = devm_spi_alloc_target(&pdev->dev, + sizeof(struct fsl_lpspi_data)); else - controller = spi_alloc_host(&pdev->dev, - sizeof(struct fsl_lpspi_data)); + controller = devm_spi_alloc_host(&pdev->dev, + sizeof(struct fsl_lpspi_data)); if (!controller) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.44.0