Prior to this commit, removing the intel_pmc_core_pltdrv module would cause the following warning: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Device 'intel_pmc_core.0' does not have a release() function, \ it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/kobject.txt. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2202 at drivers/base/core.c:1238 device_release+0x6f/0x80 Modules linked in: fuse intel_rapl_msr ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipt_REJECT \ nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack iptable_filter xt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat \ nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 libcrc32c intel_rapl_common \ intel_pmc_core_pltdrv(-) xen_netfront intel_pmc_core crct10dif_pclmul \ crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel intel_rapl_perf pcspkr binfmt_misc \ u2mfn(O) xenfs xen_gntdev xen_gntalloc xen_blkback xen_privcmd xen_evtchn \ ip_tables overlay xen_blkfront CPU: 0 PID: 2202 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W O 5.3.0-rc3-next-20190809-1 #2 RIP: 0010:device_release+0x6f/0x80 Code: 48 8b 85 c0 02 00 00 48 85 c0 74 09 48 8b 40 40 48 85 c0 75 c6 48 8b 75 50 48 85 f6 74 10 48 c7 c7 58 68 12 82 e8 5f 62 a9 ff <0f> 0b eb b5 48 8b 75 00 eb ea 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000763ea8 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff822da080 RCX: 0000000000000006 RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: ffff88813ba17540 RBP: ffffffffc0107010 R08: 0000000000000195 R09: 000000000000000d R10: 000000000000000a R11: ffffc90000763d65 R12: ffff88800c9e9000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 000071250bf142c0(0000) GS:ffff88813ba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000060ab8fd82d49 CR3: 00000001273ba004 CR4: 00000000003606f0 Call Trace: kobject_put+0x85/0x1b0 __x64_sys_delete_module+0x14b/0x270 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 RIP: 0033:0x71250c031c6b Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 1d 42 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 b0 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d ed 41 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffec29e6038 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000b0 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00006040bc3e07b0 RCX: 000071250c031c6b RDX: 000000000000000a RSI: 0000000000000800 RDI: 00006040bc3e0818 RBP: 00007ffec29e6088 R08: 1999999999999999 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 000071250c0a6ac0 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00007ffec29e6250 R13: 00007ffec29e67b7 R14: 00006040bc3e0260 R15: 00007ffec29e6090 ---[ end trace 5e5421608729d6f5 ]--- This commit hence adds an empty release function for the driver. Signed-off-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <m.v.b@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core_pltdrv.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core_pltdrv.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core_pltdrv.c index a8754a6db1b8..186540014c48 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core_pltdrv.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core_pltdrv.c @@ -18,8 +18,16 @@ #include <asm/cpu_device_id.h> #include <asm/intel-family.h> +static void intel_pmc_core_release(struct device *dev) +{ + /* Nothing to do. */ +} + static struct platform_device pmc_core_device = { .name = "intel_pmc_core", + .dev = { + .release = intel_pmc_core_release, + }, }; /* -- 2.21.0