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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-03-10 00:25:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-03-10 00:25:04 +0100 |
| commit | 161e232b8823e230d4fdf8064e606bbdf26f47e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d29c9e38febd3e8baa1351b2d28555db5b34f8b /kernel/module.c | |
| parent | Merge branch 'merge' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/po... (diff) | |
| download | linux-161e232b8823e230d4fdf8064e606bbdf26f47e2.tar.xz linux-161e232b8823e230d4fdf8064e606bbdf26f47e2.zip | |
Revert "driver core: refcounting fix"
This reverts commit 63ce18cfe685115ff8d341bae4c9204a79043cf0.
It was the incorrect fix and causes a reference counting bug whenever
any driver module is removed from the system. Mike Galbraith
<efault@gmx.de> is looking for the real fix for his problem.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index f77e893e4620..fbc51de6444e 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 |