[PATCH 1/5] Revert "driver core: refcounting fix"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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@xxxxxx> is looking for the real fix for his problem.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/module.c |    6 ------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index f77e893..fbc51de 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
-- 
1.5.0.2

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