The device_unregister() service used when cleaning up the character
device is already responsible for the internal state associated with
the device upon successful creation. As the cxlflash driver does not
obtain a second reference to the character device, the explicit call
to put_device() is not required and can lead to an inconsistent sysfs
among other issues as the reference is no longer valid after the first
put_device() is performed.
Remove the unnecessary put_device() to remedy this issue.
Fixes: a834a36b57d9 ("scsi: cxlflash: Create character device to provide host management interface")
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
index 7a787b6..455564f 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
@@ -923,7 +923,6 @@ static void cxlflash_put_minor(int minor)
*/
static void cxlflash_release_chrdev(struct cxlflash_cfg *cfg)
{
- put_device(cfg->chardev);
device_unregister(cfg->chardev);
cfg->chardev = NULL;
cdev_del(&cfg->cdev);
--
2.1.0
