In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/core: Fix null-ptr-deref in ibcorecleanup() KASAN reported a null-ptr-deref error: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f] CPU: 1 PID: 379 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) RIP: 0010:destroyworkqueue+0x2f/0x740 RSP: 0018:ffff888016137df8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ... Call Trace: ibcorecleanup+0xa/0xa1 [ibcore] _dosysdeletemodule.constprop.0+0x34f/0x5b0 dosyscall64+0x3a/0x90 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd RIP: 0033:0x7fa1a0d221b7 ... It is because the fail of rocegidmgmtinit() is ignored: ibcoreinit() rocegidmgmtinit() gidcachewq = allocorderedworkqueue # fail ... ibcorecleanup() rocegidmgmtcleanup() destroyworkqueue(gidcachewq) # destroy an unallocated wq Fix this by catching the fail of rocegidmgmtinit() in ibcore_init().