The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h

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From: Armin Wolf W_Armin@gmx.de Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:14:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] hwmon: (dell-smm) Fix warning on /proc/i8k creation error MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

The removal function is called regardless of whether /proc/i8k was created successfully or not, the later causing a WARN() on module removal. Fix that by only registering the removal function if /proc/i8k was created successfully.

Tested on a Inspiron 3505.

Fixes: 039ae58503f3 ("hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without /proc/i8k") Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf W_Armin@gmx.de Acked-by: Pali Rohár pali@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211112171440.59006-1-W_Armin@gmx.de Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c index eaace478f508..5596c211f38d 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c @@ -627,10 +627,9 @@ static void __init i8k_init_procfs(struct device *dev) { struct dell_smm_data *data = dev_get_drvdata(dev);

- /* Register the proc entry */ - proc_create_data("i8k", 0, NULL, &i8k_proc_ops, data); - - devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, i8k_exit_procfs, NULL); + /* Only register exit function if creation was successful */ + if (proc_create_data("i8k", 0, NULL, &i8k_proc_ops, data)) + devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, i8k_exit_procfs, NULL); }

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