On Sun, 21 May 2017 21:06:32 +0200
Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 08:36:07AM +0200, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> > For the sake of DT binding stability, this IIO driver is a child of an
> > MFD driver for Allwinner A10, A13 and A31 because there already exists a
> > DT binding for this IP. The MFD driver has a DT node but the IIO driver
> > does not.
> >
> > The IIO device registers the temperature sensor in the thermal framework
> > using the DT node of the parent, the MFD device, so the thermal
> > framework could match the phandle to the MFD device in the DT and the
> > struct device used to register in the thermal framework.
> >
> > devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register was previously used to register the
> > thermal sensor with the parent struct device of the IIO device,
> > representing the MFD device. By doing so, we registered actually the
> > parent in the devm routine and not the actual IIO device.
> >
> > This lead to the devm unregister function not being called when the IIO
> > module driver is removed. It resulted in the thermal framework still
> > polling the get_temp function of the IIO module while the device doesn't
> > exist anymore, thus generated a kernel panic.
> >
> > Use the non-devm function instead and do the unregister manually in the
> > remove function.
> >
> > Fixes: d1caa9905538 ("iio: adc: add support for Allwinner SoCs ADC")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Tested-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks. I'm afraid this has gone into a non rebasing tree
(and upstream for that matter) so I can't now apply this.
We will have to fall back on the email record.
Thanks
Jonathan
>
> Thanks
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