Revert "Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent"

This reverts commit c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f.

It turns out that we end up with a loop trying to load the unix
module and calling netfilter to do that.  Will redo the patch
later to not have this loop.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 1ecf0810638..f77e893e462 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -653,11 +653,20 @@ static void wait_for_zero_refcount(struct module *mod)
         mutex_lock(&module_mutex);
 }
 
-int delete_module(const char *name, unsigned int flags)
+asmlinkage long
+sys_delete_module(const char __user *name_user, unsigned int flags)
 {
         struct module *mod;
+        char name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
         int ret, forced = 0;
 
+        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE))
+                return -EPERM;
+
+        if (strncpy_from_user(name, name_user, MODULE_NAME_LEN-1) < 0)
+                return -EFAULT;
+        name[MODULE_NAME_LEN-1] = '\0';
+
         if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&module_mutex) != 0)
                 return -EINTR;
 
@@ -718,21 +727,6 @@ int delete_module(const char *name, unsigned int flags)
         return ret;
 }
 
-asmlinkage long
-sys_delete_module(const char __user *name_user, unsigned int flags)
-{
-        char name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
-
-        if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE))
-                return -EPERM;
-
-        if (strncpy_from_user(name, name_user, MODULE_NAME_LEN-1) < 0)
-                return -EFAULT;
-        name[MODULE_NAME_LEN-1] = '\0';
-
-        return delete_module(name, flags);
-}
-
 static void print_unload_info(struct seq_file *m, struct module *mod)
 {
         struct module_use *use;