Removing this assertion lets us move the kref_put() call outside the prepare_lock section. We don't need to hold the prepare_lock here to free memory and destroy the clk_core structure. We've already unlinked the clk from the clk tree and by the time the release function runs nothing holds a reference to the clk_core anymore so anything with the pointer can't access the memory that's being freed anyway. Way back in commit 496eadf821c2 ("clk: Use lockdep asserts to find missing hold of prepare_lock") we didn't need to have this assertion either. Fixes: 496eadf821c2 ("clk: Use lockdep asserts to find missing hold of prepare_lock") Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/clk/clk.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c index 2253c154a824..44e71736477d 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c @@ -4353,8 +4353,6 @@ static void __clk_release(struct kref *ref) { struct clk_core *core = container_of(ref, struct clk_core, ref); - lockdep_assert_held(&prepare_lock); - clk_core_free_parent_map(core); kfree_const(core->name); kfree(core); -- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux.git/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sboyd/spmi.git