diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc
index 65270d95873cee98d2af19113f85c45d15557a02..792a38300336a2765477bedd5fa0076142ad90d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-rtc
@@ -57,14 +57,6 @@ Contact:	linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
 Description:
 		(RO) RTC-provided time in 24-hour notation (hh:mm:ss)
 
-What:		/sys/class/rtc/rtcX/*/nvmem
-Date:		July 2017
-KernelVersion:	4.13
-Contact:	linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org
-Description:
-		(RW) The non volatile storage exported as a raw file, as
-		described in Documentation/nvmem/nvmem.txt
-
 What:		/sys/class/rtc/rtcX/offset
 Date:		February 2016
 KernelVersion:	4.6
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/class.c b/drivers/rtc/class.c
index 47c4aeed5106d63e432809513e8737775d897014..0cab397f6e378a45127b1d7d4d0351ba0fe6422f 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/class.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/class.c
@@ -293,8 +293,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rtc_device_register);
  */
 void rtc_device_unregister(struct rtc_device *rtc)
 {
-	rtc_nvmem_unregister(rtc);
-
 	mutex_lock(&rtc->ops_lock);
 	/*
 	 * Remove innards of this RTC, then disable it, before
@@ -312,6 +310,7 @@ static void devm_rtc_device_release(struct device *dev, void *res)
 {
 	struct rtc_device *rtc = *(struct rtc_device **)res;
 
+	rtc_nvmem_unregister(rtc);
 	rtc_device_unregister(rtc);
 }
 
@@ -382,6 +381,8 @@ static void devm_rtc_release_device(struct device *dev, void *res)
 {
 	struct rtc_device *rtc = *(struct rtc_device **)res;
 
+	rtc_nvmem_unregister(rtc);
+
 	if (rtc->registered)
 		rtc_device_unregister(rtc);
 	else
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/nvmem.c b/drivers/rtc/nvmem.c
index fd1c39a5ade5cd861240d5b5818fdebf6ddd069f..eb8c622cfcf49fd1423d760b3a2d4a35260a3519 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/nvmem.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/nvmem.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ int rtc_nvmem_register(struct rtc_device *rtc,
 	if (!nvmem_config)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	nvmem_config->dev = &rtc->dev;
+	nvmem_config->dev = rtc->dev.parent;
 	nvmem_config->owner = rtc->owner;
 	rtc->nvmem = nvmem_register(nvmem_config);
 	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rtc->nvmem))