Commit 7ab47050 authored by Balaji Rao's avatar Balaji Rao Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpufreq: fix kobject reference count handling

The cpufreq core should not take an extra kobject reference count for no
reason, and then refuse to release it.  This has been reported as
keeping machines from properly powering down all the way.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBalaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent b6c24de7
......@@ -1006,14 +1006,6 @@ static int __cpufreq_remove_dev (struct sys_device * sys_dev)
}
#endif
if (!kobject_get(&data->kobj)) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpufreq_driver_lock, flags);
cpufreq_debug_enable_ratelimit();
unlock_policy_rwsem_write(cpu);
return -EFAULT;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
......
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