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: Balaji 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
index 64926aa..89a29cd 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
@@ -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