From fe7881df4762c4458367ba8267c645252dc71943 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:25:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "driver core: refcounting fix" This reverts commit 25b20e3d69a6e9f5153575d32defde755f7573ed. It was the incorrect fix and causes a reference counting bug whenever any driver module is removed from the system. Mike Galbraith is looking for the real fix for his problem. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/module.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index f77e893e4620c..fbc51de6444e4 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2419,12 +2419,6 @@ void module_remove_driver(struct device_driver *drv) kfree(driver_name); } } - /* - * Undo the additional reference we added in module_add_driver() - * via kset_find_obj() - */ - if (drv->mod_name) - kobject_put(&drv->kobj); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(module_remove_driver); #endif -- 2.39.5