[PATCH 1/7] slimbus: qcom-ngd-ctrl: Fix up platform_driver registration
From: Bjorn Andersson
Date: Tue Mar 10 2026 - 00:09:58 EST
Device drivers should not invoke platform_driver_register()/unregister()
in their probe and remove paths. They should further not rely on
platform_driver_unregister() as their only means of "deleting" their
child devices.
Introduce a helper to unregister the child device and move the
platform_driver_register()/unregister() to module_init()/exit().
Fixes: 917809e2280b ("slimbus: ngd: Add qcom SLIMBus NGD driver")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c b/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c
index 9aa7218b4e8d2b350835626839371ed6e19860e2..c69656a0ef1766d5a9df40bdf37bae8f64789fab 100644
--- a/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/slimbus/qcom-ngd-ctrl.c
@@ -1562,6 +1562,13 @@ static int of_qcom_slim_ngd_register(struct device *parent,
return -ENODEV;
}
+static void qcom_slim_ngd_unregister(struct qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl *ctrl)
+{
+ struct qcom_slim_ngd *ngd = ctrl->ngd;
+
+ platform_device_del(ngd->pdev);
+}
+
static int qcom_slim_ngd_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
@@ -1664,7 +1671,6 @@ static int qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto err_pdr_lookup;
}
- platform_driver_register(&qcom_slim_ngd_driver);
return of_qcom_slim_ngd_register(dev, ctrl);
err_pdr_alloc:
@@ -1678,7 +1684,9 @@ static int qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
static void qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
- platform_driver_unregister(&qcom_slim_ngd_driver);
+ struct qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl *ctrl = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+
+ qcom_slim_ngd_unregister(ctrl);
}
static void qcom_slim_ngd_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
@@ -1754,6 +1762,28 @@ static struct platform_driver qcom_slim_ngd_driver = {
},
};
-module_platform_driver(qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl_driver);
+static int qcom_slim_ngd_init(void)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = platform_driver_register(&qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl_driver);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ ret = platform_driver_register(&qcom_slim_ngd_driver);
+ if (ret)
+ platform_driver_unregister(&qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl_driver);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static void qcom_slim_ngd_exit(void)
+{
+ platform_driver_unregister(&qcom_slim_ngd_driver);
+ platform_driver_unregister(&qcom_slim_ngd_ctrl_driver);
+}
+
+module_init(qcom_slim_ngd_init);
+module_exit(qcom_slim_ngd_exit);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Qualcomm SLIMBus NGD controller");
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