From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 13:09:43 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: driver core: remove device_change_owner() export
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f55ae0bfa00e446ea751d09f468daeafc303e03f;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

driver core: remove device_change_owner() export

The function, device_change_owner() is exported for modules to use,
but there are no in-kernel users of it, so remove the export to prevent
out-of-tree code from thinking this is a safe function to call.

Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2026020543-molar-childcare-af20@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 40de2f51a1b1a..f599a1384eec9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -4781,7 +4781,6 @@ out:
 	put_device(dev);
 	return error;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_change_owner);
 
 /**
  * device_shutdown - call ->shutdown() on each device to shutdown.