[media] bt8xx: remove needless module refcounting

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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
ambv · Jul 8, 2016 · 654043f · 654043f
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diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c b/drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/dst_ca.c
@@ -655,15 +655,13 @@ 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;
 }
 
 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;
 }