From: Corey Leavitt __pse_control_release() drops psec->ps via devm_regulator_put(), which only succeeds if the devres entry added by the matching devm_regulator_get_exclusive() is still present on pcdev->dev at the time the pse_control's kref hits zero. In practice that assumption does not hold when the controller is unbound while any pse_control still has consumers: pcdev->dev's devres list is released LIFO, so every per-attach regulator-GET devres runs (and regulator_put()s the underlying regulator) before pse_controller_unregister() itself is invoked. Any later pse_control_put() from that unbind path then reads psec->ps as a dangling pointer inside devm_regulator_put() and WARNs at drivers/regulator/devres.c:232 (devres_release() fails to find the already-released match). The pse_control's consumer handle is logically scoped to the pse_control's refcount, not to pcdev->dev's devres lifetime. Switch to the plain regulator_get_exclusive() / regulator_put() pair so __pse_control_release() does the right put regardless of whether the controller's devres has already been unwound. No change to the regulator-framework-visible refcount or lifetime of the underlying regulator: a single get paired with a single put. The existing devm_regulator_register() for the per-PI rails is unchanged (those ARE correctly scoped to the controller's lifetime). Fixes: d83e13761d5b ("net: pse-pd: Use regulator framework within PSE framework") Signed-off-by: Corey Leavitt Acked-by: Kory Maincent Signed-off-by: Carlo Szelinsky --- This was patch 1 of the "decouple controller lookup from MDIO probe" series [1]. Reposting it standalone for net as suggested, since it is a self-contained fix. The rest of the series targets net-next and will be resent once net-next reopens. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260620112440.1734404-1-github@szelinsky.de/ --- drivers/net/pse-pd/pse_core.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/pse-pd/pse_core.c b/drivers/net/pse-pd/pse_core.c index 69dbdbde9d71..a5e6d7b26b9f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pse-pd/pse_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/pse-pd/pse_core.c @@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ static void __pse_control_release(struct kref *kref) if (psec->pcdev->pi[psec->id].admin_state_enabled) regulator_disable(psec->ps); - devm_regulator_put(psec->ps); + regulator_put(psec->ps); module_put(psec->pcdev->owner); @@ -1436,8 +1436,8 @@ pse_control_get_internal(struct pse_controller_dev *pcdev, unsigned int index, goto free_psec; pcdev->pi[index].admin_state_enabled = ret; - psec->ps = devm_regulator_get_exclusive(pcdev->dev, - rdev_get_name(pcdev->pi[index].rdev)); + psec->ps = regulator_get_exclusive(pcdev->dev, + rdev_get_name(pcdev->pi[index].rdev)); if (IS_ERR(psec->ps)) { ret = PTR_ERR(psec->ps); goto put_module; base-commit: d07d80b6a129a44538cda1549b7acf95154fb197 -- 2.43.0