While debugging some PM issues and trying to remove all the loaded modules, I ran across the following when unloading ti-soc-thermal: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000b4 ... [<c08db340>] (kobject_put) from [<bf28954c>] (ti_thermal_unregister_cpu_cooling+0x20/0x28 [ti_soc_thermal]) [<bf28954c>] (ti_thermal_unregister_cpu_cooling [ti_soc_thermal]) from [<bf287c88>] (ti_bandgap_remove+0x3c/0x104 [ti_soc_thermal]) [<bf287c88>] (ti_bandgap_remove [ti_soc_thermal]) from [<c0610d48>] (platform_drv_remove+0x24/0x3c) [<c0610d48>] (platform_drv_remove) from [<c060f114>] (device_release_driver_internal+0x160/0x208) [<c060f114>] (device_release_driver_internal) from [<c060f200>] (driver_detach+0x38/0x6c) [<c060f200>] (driver_detach) from [<c060e2d4>] (bus_remove_driver+0x4c/0xa0) [<c060e2d4>] (bus_remove_driver) from [<c01f2370>] (SyS_delete_module+0x168/0x238) [<c01f2370>] (SyS_delete_module) from [<c0108240>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x28) Cc: Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c --- a/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-thermal-common.c @@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ int ti_thermal_unregister_cpu_cooling(struct ti_bandgap *bgp, int id) if (data) { cpufreq_cooling_unregister(data->cool_dev); - cpufreq_cpu_put(data->policy); + if (data->policy) + cpufreq_cpu_put(data->policy); } return 0; -- 2.14.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html