because ops.release was never dvb_attached. Which makes sense because f->ops.release does not attach anything. Now, rmmod dvb_usb_pctv452e correctly sets counters for stb6100/stb0899 to 0. Before, stb0899 got a counter -1, and for my 4 receivers I got 3 OOPses like Nov 24 14:40:41 s5 kernel: [ 194.211014] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 3055 at module_put.part.45+0x132/0x1a0 Call Trace: ? _stb0899_read_reg+0x100/0x100 [stb0899] ? _stb0899_read_reg+0x100/0x100 [stb0899] symbol_put_addr+0x38/0x60 dvb_frontend_put+0x42/0x60 [dvb_core] ? stb0899_sleep+0x50/0x50 [stb0899] dvb_frontend_detach+0x7c/0x90 [dvb_core] dvb_usb_adapter_frontend_exit+0x57/0x80 [dvb_usb] dvb_usb_exit+0x39/0xb0 [dvb_usb] dvb_usb_device_exit+0x3f/0x60 [dvb_usb] pctv452e_usb_disconnect+0x6f/0x80 [dvb_usb_pctv452e] usb_unbind_interface+0x75/0x290 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x80 device_release_driver_internal+0x160/0x210 driver_detach+0x40/0x80 bus_remove_driver+0x5c/0xd0 driver_unregister+0x2c/0x40 usb_deregister+0x6c/0xf0 pctv452e_usb_driver_exit+0x10/0xec0 [dvb_usb_pctv452e] Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Rohdewald <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c index 9139d01ba7ed..c2cc794299c9 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c @@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ static void __dvb_frontend_free(struct dvb_frontend *fe) dvb_free_device(fepriv->dvbdev); - dvb_frontend_invoke_release(fe, fe->ops.release); + if (fe->ops.release) + fe->ops.release(fe); kfree(fepriv); fe->frontend_priv = NULL; -- 2.11.0