linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/4] panthor: set owner field for driver fops

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Message-ID: <20250620235053.164614-2-olvaffe@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:50:50 -0700
From: Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@...il.com>
To: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...labora.com>,
	Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
	Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] panthor: set owner field for driver fops

It allows us to get rid of manual try_module_get / module_put.

Signed-off-by: Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@...il.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c | 14 +++-----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c
index 1116f2d2826ee..775a66c394544 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_drv.c
@@ -1400,14 +1400,9 @@ panthor_open(struct drm_device *ddev, struct drm_file *file)
 	struct panthor_file *pfile;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	pfile = kzalloc(sizeof(*pfile), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!pfile) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto err_put_mod;
-	}
+	if (!pfile)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	pfile->ptdev = ptdev;
 	pfile->user_mmio.offset = DRM_PANTHOR_USER_MMIO_OFFSET;
@@ -1439,9 +1434,6 @@ panthor_open(struct drm_device *ddev, struct drm_file *file)
 
 err_free_file:
 	kfree(pfile);
-
-err_put_mod:
-	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1454,7 +1446,6 @@ panthor_postclose(struct drm_device *ddev, struct drm_file *file)
 	panthor_vm_pool_destroy(pfile);
 
 	kfree(pfile);
-	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 }
 
 static const struct drm_ioctl_desc panthor_drm_driver_ioctls[] = {
@@ -1555,6 +1546,7 @@ static void panthor_show_fdinfo(struct drm_printer *p, struct drm_file *file)
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations panthor_drm_driver_fops = {
+	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
 	.open = drm_open,
 	.release = drm_release,
 	.unlocked_ioctl = drm_ioctl,
-- 
2.50.0.714.g196bf9f422-goog