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Commit 161e232b authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Revert "driver core: refcounting fix" 



This reverts commit 63ce18cf.

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: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent a967e127

kernel/module.c

+0 −6
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@@ -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