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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c
index d93736aa2703..34e7fc7e590c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm-sysfs.c
@@ -295,5 +295,10 @@ int tpm_sysfs_add_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
void tpm_sysfs_del_device(struct tpm_chip *chip)
{
+ /* The sysfs routines rely on an implicit tpm_try_get_ops, this
+ * function is called before ops is null'd and the sysfs core
+ * synchronizes this removal so that no callbacks are running or can
+ * run again
+ */
sysfs_remove_group(&chip->dev.parent->kobj, &tpm_dev_group);
}