It is responsibility of a caller of fops->open(), to make sure an owner of the fops is available until file is closed. So, there is no need to lock THIS_MODULE explicitly. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c index da8b414fd824..8681b9143a35 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c @@ -655,7 +655,6 @@ static long dst_ca_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ioct static int dst_ca_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { dprintk(verbose, DST_CA_DEBUG, 1, " Device opened [%p] ", file); - try_module_get(THIS_MODULE); return 0; } @@ -663,7 +662,6 @@ static int dst_ca_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) static int dst_ca_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { dprintk(verbose, DST_CA_DEBUG, 1, " Device closed."); - module_put(THIS_MODULE); return 0; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html