The driver uses managed resource API to register the iio device, so it is unnecessarg to unregister the device manually. The following log reveals it: [ 32.374955] isl29028 0-0010: remove [ 32.376861] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000006: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [ 32.377676] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000030-0x0000000000000037] [ 32.379432] RIP: 0010:kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x28/0xe0 [ 32.385461] Call Trace: [ 32.385807] sysfs_unmerge_group+0x59/0x110 [ 32.386110] dpm_sysfs_remove+0x58/0xc0 [ 32.386391] device_del+0x296/0xe50 [ 32.386959] cdev_device_del+0x1d/0xd0 [ 32.387231] devm_iio_device_unreg+0x27/0xb0 [ 32.387542] devres_release_group+0x319/0x3d0 [ 32.388162] i2c_device_remove+0x93/0x1f0 Fixes: 2db5054ac28d ("staging: iio: isl29028: add runtime power management support") Signed-off-by: Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/iio/light/isl29028.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/isl29028.c b/drivers/iio/light/isl29028.c index 9de3262aa688..505235903bd8 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/light/isl29028.c +++ b/drivers/iio/light/isl29028.c @@ -641,8 +641,6 @@ static int isl29028_remove(struct i2c_client *client) struct iio_dev *indio_dev = i2c_get_clientdata(client); struct isl29028_chip *chip = iio_priv(indio_dev); - iio_device_unregister(indio_dev); - pm_runtime_disable(&client->dev); pm_runtime_set_suspended(&client->dev); -- 2.25.1