On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 03:52:49PM +0800, Clark Wang wrote: > Calling devm_spi_register_controller() too early will cause problem. > When probe failed occurs after calling devm_spi_register_controller(), > the call of spi_controller_put() will trigger the following warning dump. > > [ 2.092138] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [ 2.096876] kernfs: can not remove 'uevent', no directory > [ 2.102440] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 181 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1503 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0xa0/0xb0 > [ 2.111142] Modules linked in: > [ 2.114207] CPU: 0 PID: 181 Comm: kworker/0:7 Not tainted 5.4.24-05024-g775c6e8a738c-dirty #1314 Please think hard before including complete backtraces in upstream reports, they are very large and contain almost no useful information relative to their size so often obscure the relevant content in your message. If part of the backtrace is usefully illustrative (it often is for search engines if nothing else) then it's usually better to pull out the relevant sections.