net: Kill hold_net release_net

hold_net and release_net were an idea that turned out to be useless.
The code has been disabled since 2008.  Kill the code it is long past due.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 5bae7243c577..096c6276e6b9 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ static void destroy_dp_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
 
         ovs_flow_tbl_destroy(&dp->table);
         free_percpu(dp->stats_percpu);
-        release_net(ovs_dp_get_net(dp));
         kfree(dp->ports);
         kfree(dp);
 }
@@ -1501,7 +1500,7 @@ static int ovs_dp_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
         if (dp == NULL)
                 goto err_free_reply;
 
-        ovs_dp_set_net(dp, hold_net(sock_net(skb->sk)));
+        ovs_dp_set_net(dp, sock_net(skb->sk));
 
         /* Allocate table. */
         err = ovs_flow_tbl_init(&dp->table);
@@ -1575,7 +1574,6 @@ err_destroy_percpu:
 err_destroy_table:
         ovs_flow_tbl_destroy(&dp->table);
 err_free_dp:
-        release_net(ovs_dp_get_net(dp));
         kfree(dp);
 err_free_reply:
         kfree_skb(reply);