This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race" to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: revert-cpufreq-fix-governor-module-removal-race.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Apr 6 10:31:28 CEST 2018 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 09:04:23 +0200 Subject: Revert "cpufreq: Fix governor module removal race" From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This reverts commit 3f7dfb7fcf98a7e73dee018c4a68537ce7fec646 which was commit a8b149d32b663c1a4105273295184b78f53d33cf upstream. The backport was not correct, so just drop it entirely. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c @@ -551,8 +551,6 @@ static int cpufreq_parse_governor(char * *governor = t; err = 0; } - if (t && !try_module_get(t->owner)) - t = NULL; mutex_unlock(&cpufreq_governor_mutex); } @@ -671,10 +669,6 @@ static ssize_t store_scaling_governor(st return -EINVAL; ret = cpufreq_set_policy(policy, &new_policy); - - if (new_policy.governor) - module_put(new_policy.governor->owner); - return ret ? ret : count; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/rdma-ucma-check-af-family-prior-resolving-address.patch queue-4.4/documentation-pinctrl-palmas-add-ti-palmas-powerhold-override-property-definition.patch 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