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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Guy, Wey-Yi W" <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware_class: fix typo in error path
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:43:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100818154330.GA4000@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282144518.5249.2.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:15:18PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> 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.

Nice catch, thanks.  I'll queue it up.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-18 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-18 15:15 Johannes Berg
2010-08-18 15:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-08-19  5:26   ` Dmitry Torokhov

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