kobject_del() only unlinks kobject, we need to use kobject_put() to make sure kobject will go away completely.
Fixes: 049a59db34eb ("firmware: Google VPD sysfs driver") Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> --- drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c index b3a6e918418b..cb07a2984ece 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static int vpd_section_destroy(struct vpd_section *sec) { if (sec->enabled) { vpd_section_attrib_destroy(sec); - kobject_del(sec->kobj); + kobject_put(sec->kobj); sysfs_remove_bin_file(vpd_kobj, &sec->bin_attr); kfree(sec->raw_name); iounmap(sec->baseaddr); @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ static void __exit vpd_platform_exit(void) { vpd_section_destroy(&ro_vpd); vpd_section_destroy(&rw_vpd); - kobject_del(vpd_kobj); + kobject_put(vpd_kobj); } module_init(vpd_platform_init); -- 2.13.0.219.gdb65acc882-goog