[PATCH 4.4 68/72] Revert "cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This reverts commit 3f7dfb7fcf98a7e73dee018c4a68537ce7fec646 which was
commit a8b149d32b663c1a4105273295184b78f53d33cf upstream.

The backport was not correct, so just drop it entirely.

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c |    6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -551,8 +551,6 @@ static int cpufreq_parse_governor(char *
 			*governor = t;
 			err = 0;
 		}
-		if (t && !try_module_get(t->owner))
-			t = NULL;
 
 		mutex_unlock(&cpufreq_governor_mutex);
 	}
@@ -671,10 +669,6 @@ static ssize_t store_scaling_governor(st
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ret = cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy);
-
-	if (new_policy.governor)
-		module_put(new_policy.governor->owner);
-
 	return ret ? ret : count;
 }