From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:39:20 +0200
Subject: xfrm interface: don't take extra reference to netdev
Patch-mainline: v5.8-rc1
Git-commit: e62905ae34eaf5fe2cfb254be5e0c097b3b1f798
References: bsc#1176447

I don't see any reason to do this. Maybe needed before
commit 56c5ee1a5823 ("xfrm interface: fix memory leak on creation").

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_interface.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_interface.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_interface.c
@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ static int xfrmi_create(struct net_devic
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	dev_hold(dev);
 	xfrmi_link(xfrmn, xi);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -175,7 +174,6 @@ static void xfrmi_dev_uninit(struct net_
 	struct xfrmi_net *xfrmn = net_generic(xi->net, xfrmi_net_id);
 
 	xfrmi_unlink(xfrmn, xi);
-	dev_put(dev);
 }
 
 static void xfrmi_scrub_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet)