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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2010-08-18 17:15:18 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-24 03:12:46 +0200
commitf45f3c1f3f616ca1d1e1eb5e7a720ca63cb59550 (patch)
tree86377f566006497bb55aa4dac3c05e49c632688d /drivers/base
parentkobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header (diff)
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firmware_class: fix typo in error path
In the error path, _request_firmware sets firmware_p to NULL rather than *firmware_p, which leads to passing a freed firmware struct to drivers when the firmware file cannot be found. Fix this. Broken by commit f8a4bd3456b988fc73b2c. Reported-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/firmware_class.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index c8a44f5e0584..40af43ebd92d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static int _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p,
out:
if (retval) {
release_firmware(firmware);
- firmware_p = NULL;
+ *firmware_p = NULL;
}
return retval;