Re: [PATCH 3.3-rc1] PM / Sleep: Fix read_unlock_usermodehelper()call.

[Srivatsa S. Bhat]

On 01/23/2012 10:19 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> Commit b298d289
>  "PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()"
> added read_unlock_usermodehelper() but read_unlock_usermodehelper() is called
> without read_lock_usermodehelper() when kmalloc() failed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> -----


Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for catching this!
Regards,
Srivatsa S. Bhat

> diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> index 26ab358..6c9387d 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> @@ -525,8 +525,7 @@ static int _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p,
>  	if (!firmware) {
>  		dev_err(device, "%s: kmalloc(struct firmware) failed\n",
>  			__func__);
> -		retval = -ENOMEM;
> -		goto out;
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  	}
> 
>  	if (fw_get_builtin_firmware(firmware, name)) {
> 

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