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    hwmon: (sht15) Fix wrong assumptions in device remove callback · 7d4edccc
    Uwe Kleine-König authored
    Taking a lock at the beginning of .remove() doesn't prevent new readers.
    With the existing approach it can happen, that a read occurs just when
    the lock was taken blocking the reader until the lock is released at the
    end of the remove callback which then accessed *data that is already
    freed then.
    
    To actually fix this problem the hwmon core needs some adaption. Until
    this is implemented take the optimistic approach of assuming that all
    readers are gone after hwmon_device_unregister() and
    sysfs_remove_group() as most other drivers do. (And once the core
    implements that, taking the lock would deadlock.)
    
    So drop the lock, move the reset to after device unregistration to keep
    the device in a workable state until it's deregistered. Also add a error
    message in case the reset fails and return 0 anyhow. (Returning an error
    code, doesn't stop the platform device unregistration and only results
    in a little helpful error message before the devm cleanup handlers are
    called.)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220725194344.150098-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.deSigned-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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