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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-04-06 09:06:23 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-04-08 14:26:34 +0200
commitcfbed9b55636334f19059660b197fdffd40b8865 (patch)
tree999a6317c6b17934323284323b9b565aaf2d716c
parenta99aaeccdefdeed566861b867f43cdd18573ad29 (diff)
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Revert "cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race"
This reverts commit 0049457bfde661cf47410eaacad65845c9a2bb45 which was commit a8b149d32b663c1a4105273295184b78f53d33cf upstream. The backport was not correct, so just drop it entirely. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index bb1e148ebfd4..ea43b147a7fe 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -631,8 +631,6 @@ static int cpufreq_parse_governor(char *str_governor, unsigned int *policy,
*governor = t;
err = 0;
}
- if (t && !try_module_get(t->owner))
- t = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&cpufreq_governor_mutex);
}
@@ -761,10 +759,6 @@ static ssize_t store_scaling_governor(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
return -EINVAL;
ret = cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy);
-
- if (new_policy.governor)
- module_put(new_policy.governor->owner);
-
return ret ? ret : count;
}