linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix hwmon device cleanup

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Date:   Wed, 8 May 2019 16:25:49 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Yurii Pavlovskyi <yurii.pavlovskyi@...il.com>
Cc:     Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
        acpi4asus-user <acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix hwmon device cleanup

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 1:00 PM Yurii Pavlovskyi
<yurii.pavlovskyi@...il.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

>         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(
> +                       &asus->platform_device->dev, "asus", asus,
> +                       hwmon_attribute_groups);
> +

Temporary variable would help with readability, i.e.

struct device *dev = &asus->platform_device->dev;
...

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko