The driver does not clean up the hwmon device on exit or error. To reproduce the bug, repeat rmmod, insmod to verify that device number /sys/devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/hwmon/hwmon?? grows every time. Replace call for registering device with devm_* version that unregisters it automatically. Signed-off-by: Yurii Pavlovskyi <yurii.pavlovskyi@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c index f94691615881..62567766bdfb 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c @@ -1428,11 +1428,12 @@ __ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(hwmon_attribute); static int asus_wmi_hwmon_init(struct asus_wmi *asus) { + struct device *dev = &asus->platform_device->dev; struct device *hwmon; - hwmon = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(&asus->platform_device->dev, - "asus", asus, - hwmon_attribute_groups); + hwmon = devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups(dev, "asus", asus, + hwmon_attribute_groups); + if (IS_ERR(hwmon)) { pr_err("Could not register asus hwmon device\n"); return PTR_ERR(hwmon); -- 2.17.1