On 7/16/2021 8:21 PM, Jon Nettleton wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 2:17 PM Andy Shevchenko > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 01:16:02PM +0300, laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx wrote: >>> From: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@xxxxxxx> >>> >>> software_node_notify(), on KOBJ_REMOVE drops the refcount twice on managed >>> software nodes, thus leading to underflow errors. Balance the refcount by >>> bumping it in the device_create_managed_software_node() function. >>> >>> The error [1] was encountered after adding a .shutdown() op to our >>> fsl-mc-bus driver. >> >> Looking into the history of adding ->shutdown() to dwc3 driver (it got reverted >> later on), I can tell that probably something is wrong in the ->shutdown() >> method itself. >> >> -- >> With Best Regards, >> Andy Shevchenko >> >> > > Isn't the other alternative to just remove the second kobject_put from > KOBJ_REMOVE ? > Or maybe on top of Heikki's suggestion, replace the calls to sysfs_create_link() from KOBJ_ADD with sysfs_create_link_nowarn()? --- Best Regards, Laurentiu