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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2010-08-12 05:04:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2010-08-11 13:34:31 (GMT) |
| commit | d6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd0246de22180303ae73 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a342999c119a5ee6395966cee91ddf5186f5665 /drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf | |
| parent | dca41306395eab37e222ff9e72765e692fcc7251 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d6d1b650ae6acce73d55dd0246de22180303ae73.tar.xz | |
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_tf')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c index b172f5d..41a4f21 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c @@ -811,12 +811,15 @@ static int if_usb_prog_firmware(struct if_usb_card *cardp) lbtf_deb_enter(LBTF_DEB_USB); + kparam_block_sysfs_write(fw_name); ret = request_firmware(&cardp->fw, lbtf_fw_name, &cardp->udev->dev); if (ret < 0) { pr_err("request_firmware() failed with %#x\n", ret); pr_err("firmware %s not found\n", lbtf_fw_name); + kparam_unblock_sysfs_write(fw_name); goto done; } + kparam_unblock_sysfs_write(fw_name); if (check_fwfile_format(cardp->fw->data, cardp->fw->size)) goto release_fw; |