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>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index f77e893e462..fbc51de6444 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