[PATCH v2 1/3] soundwire: bus: Don't unassign dev_num before unregistering device
From: Charles Keepax
Date: Fri Sep 25 2026 - 11:43:28 EST
Don't mark dev_num as unassigned until after the driver remove has
been called. The driver may want to communicate with the device
as part of the driver remove operation, so the dev_num should
remain assigned until that has completed. This requires moving from
device_unregister() to manually calling device_del() and device_put()
to ensure that the slave struct isn't freed too early.
Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v1:
- Split device_unregister into device_del and put_device
drivers/soundwire/bus.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/soundwire/bus.c b/drivers/soundwire/bus.c
index aeaae5a57c89d..1488b6540844c 100644
--- a/drivers/soundwire/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/soundwire/bus.c
@@ -175,8 +175,9 @@ static int sdw_delete_slave(struct device *dev, void *data)
sdw_slave_debugfs_exit(slave);
- mutex_lock(&bus->bus_lock);
+ device_del(dev);
+ mutex_lock(&bus->bus_lock);
if (slave->dev_num) { /* clear dev_num if assigned */
clear_bit(slave->dev_num, bus->assigned);
if (bus->ops && bus->ops->put_device_num)
@@ -185,7 +186,8 @@ static int sdw_delete_slave(struct device *dev, void *data)
list_del_init(&slave->node);
mutex_unlock(&bus->bus_lock);
- device_unregister(dev);
+ put_device(dev);
+
return 0;
}
--
2.47.3