In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vme: Fix error not catched in fakeinit() In fakeinit(), _rootdeviceregister() is possible to fail but it's ignored, which can cause unregistering vmeroot fail when exit. general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000008c KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000460-0x0000000000000467] RIP: 0010:rootdeviceunregister+0x26/0x60 Call Trace: <TASK> _x64sysdeletemodule+0x34f/0x540 dosyscall64+0x38/0x90 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x63/0xcd Return error when _rootdevice_register() fails.