From f4c360885236357b1aefa6c2be1aeef7c8daa6ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 09:06:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race"

This reverts commit a853301f77b5c4feb5e17aebfd92018269525523 which was
commit a8b149d32b663c1a4105273295184b78f53d33cf upstream.

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

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index d6a3038a128dd..41d148af77482 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -637,8 +637,6 @@ static int cpufreq_parse_governor(char *str_governor, unsigned int *policy,
 			*governor = t;
 			err = 0;
 		}
-		if (t && !try_module_get(t->owner))
-			t = NULL;
 
 		mutex_unlock(&cpufreq_governor_mutex);
 	}
@@ -767,10 +765,6 @@ static ssize_t store_scaling_governor(struct cpufreq_policy *policy,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ret = cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy);
-
-	if (new_policy.governor)
-		module_put(new_policy.governor->owner);
-
 	return ret ? ret : count;
 }