The parent of the character device related to the media devnode is the media devnode. Thus the character device needs to be released before the media devnode's release function. Move it to unregistering of the media devnode, which mirrors adding the character device in conjunction with registering the media devnode. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/mc/mc-devnode.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/mc/mc-devnode.c b/drivers/media/mc/mc-devnode.c index 5696ccf01d81..dbf546853ca9 100644 --- a/drivers/media/mc/mc-devnode.c +++ b/drivers/media/mc/mc-devnode.c @@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ static void media_devnode_release(struct device *cd) mutex_lock(&media_devnode_lock); - /* Delete the cdev on this minor as well */ - cdev_del(&devnode->cdev); - /* Mark device node number as free */ clear_bit(devnode->minor, media_devnode_nums); @@ -271,6 +268,7 @@ void media_devnode_unregister(struct media_devnode *devnode) clear_bit(MEDIA_FLAG_REGISTERED, &devnode->flags); mutex_unlock(&media_devnode_lock); + cdev_del(&devnode->cdev); device_unregister(&devnode->dev); } -- 2.39.2