The vdev_probe calls driver->probe, which may fail and dev->device.driver will still be NULL. In vdev_cleanup, drv = container_of(dev->device.driver) returns !NULL, then drv->remove will trigger Segmentation fault. Fix it by checking dev->device.driver first. Log: Thread 1 "dpdk-test" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000012c484d in vdev_cleanup () Signed-off-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org> --- drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c b/drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c index f5b43f1930..fbdaf68380 100644 --- a/drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c +++ b/drivers/bus/vdev/vdev.c @@ -577,6 +577,9 @@ vdev_cleanup(void) const struct rte_vdev_driver *drv; int ret = 0; + if (dev->device.driver == NULL) + continue; + drv = container_of(dev->device.driver, const struct rte_vdev_driver, driver); if (drv == NULL || drv->remove == NULL) -- 2.36.1