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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>2015-05-12 14:49:40 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-05-24 12:36:34 -0700
commitf5727b05d221796baf69667ed5c891d4bd53711e (patch)
treec6a919fa3ed296526cbbb1719810e5b2429785d7 /README
parentf4445f8b204de44a8baa4326b0e56537be867427 (diff)
downloadlinux-f5727b05d221796baf69667ed5c891d4bd53711e.tar.gz
firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
The request_firmware*() APIs uses __getname() to iterate
over the list of paths possible for firmware to be found,
the code however never checked for failure on __getname().
Although *very unlikely*, this can still happen. Add the
missing check.

There is still no checks on the concatenation of the path
and filename passed, that requires a bit more work and
subsequent patches address this. The commit that introduced
this is abb139e7 ("firmware: teach the kernel to load
firmware files directly from the filesystem").

mcgrof@ergon ~/linux (git::firmware-fixes) $ git describe --contains abb139e7
v3.7-rc1~120

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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