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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-08-12 07:04:27 +0200
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2010-08-11 15:34:31 +0200
commitd6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd0246de22180303ae73 (patch)
tree7a342999c119a5ee6395966cee91ddf5186f5665 /drivers/net/wireless/libertas
parentparam: remove unnecessary writable charp (diff)
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param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters
Since the writing to sysfs can free the old one, we need to block that when we access the charp variables. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jing Huang <huangj@brocade.com> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/libertas')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c
index 07ece9d26c63..3ff61063671a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_usb.c
@@ -289,10 +289,13 @@ static int if_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
}
/* Upload firmware */
+ kparam_block_sysfs_write(fw_name);
if (__if_usb_prog_firmware(cardp, lbs_fw_name, BOOT_CMD_FW_BY_USB)) {
+ kparam_unblock_sysfs_write(fw_name);
lbs_deb_usbd(&udev->dev, "FW upload failed\n");
goto err_prog_firmware;
}
+ kparam_unblock_sysfs_write(fw_name);
if (!(priv = lbs_add_card(cardp, &udev->dev)))
goto err_prog_firmware;