[PATCH 437/961] staging: brcm80211: bugfix for oops on firmware load problems
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at suse.de
Wed Mar 16 21:01:20 UTC 2011
From: Roland Vossen <rvossen at broadcom.com>
Upon firmware load failure, wl_release_fw() was called multiple
times. This caused the driver to oops. Solution was to remove redundant
wl_release_fw() calls.
Signed-off-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen at broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
---
drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c
index 18f1ccf..bf98a15 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c
@@ -1804,7 +1804,6 @@ static int wl_request_fw(struct wl_info *wl, struct pci_dev *pdev)
if (status) {
WL_ERROR("%s: fail to load firmware %s\n",
KBUILD_MODNAME, fw_name);
- wl_release_fw(wl);
return status;
}
WL_NONE("request fw %s\n", fw_name);
@@ -1814,7 +1813,6 @@ static int wl_request_fw(struct wl_info *wl, struct pci_dev *pdev)
if (status) {
WL_ERROR("%s: fail to load firmware %s\n",
KBUILD_MODNAME, fw_name);
- wl_release_fw(wl);
return status;
}
wl->fw.hdr_num_entries[i] =
--
1.7.4.1
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