diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
index d3bf82c0de1d87c8bcfee30d35e4c0331812dc1c..5733294ce5cd22fb81755699a2f2c9d2a5977d49 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
@@ -1419,13 +1419,8 @@ static int coresight_remove_match(struct device *dev, void *data)
 		if (csdev->dev.fwnode == conn->child_fwnode) {
 			iterator->orphan = true;
 			coresight_remove_links(iterator, conn);
-			/*
-			 * Drop the reference to the handle for the remote
-			 * device acquired in parsing the connections from
-			 * platform data.
-			 */
-			fwnode_handle_put(conn->child_fwnode);
-			conn->child_fwnode = NULL;
+
+			conn->child_dev = NULL;
 			/* No need to continue */
 			break;
 		}