I wanted to activate 'stop_on_unregister' for the Renesas R-Car driver (see patch 2) and stumbled over an OOPS when using it. So, patch 1 addresses this problem to the best of my knowledge. Looking forward to comments. Happy hacking, Wolfram Wolfram Sang (2): watchdog: core: fix null pointer dereference when releasing cdev watchdog: renesas_wdt: stop when unregistering drivers/watchdog/renesas_wdt.c | 1 + drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0