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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:13:58 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Lucas C. Villa Real" <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initialize pointer on request_firmware
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:51:36PM -0300, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Lucas C. Villa Real
> <lucasvr@gobolinux.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:03:27AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >>> The patch was in the 2.6.36 kernel, so by nature of that, 3.0 will also
> >>> have it, right?
> >>
> >> Ok, a colleague of mine gave me 3.0.4 to stare at - and you're right
> >> the patch is there. So what is still missing is caca9510ff4e5 from
> >> upstream which reroutes the exit path so that firmware_p is NULLed
> >> before returning -EBUSY.
> >>
> >> Lucas, can you apply caca9510ff4e5 from upstream and verify it fixes the
> >> issue for ya?
> >
> > Sure. I'll do that tonight and will let you now -- the laptop I'm
> > using right now doesn't suffer from that problem.
> 
> caca9510ff4e5 fixes it. Thanks for the pointer!

Looks like the ball is with Greg now :-).

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.