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| author | Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> | 2010-01-26 13:27:09 -0500 | 
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-01-27 00:05:25 -0500 | 
| commit | c928febf4bc703ea542340e5a208e0445d998839 (patch) | |
| tree | b43875f67bca052b4e5826eae5d2d9f45c5edb67 | |
| parent | c92b544bd5d8e7ed7d81c77bbecab6df2a95aa53 (diff) | |
starfire: clean up properly if firmware loading fails
netdev_open() will return without cleaning up net device or hardware state
if firmware loading fails.  This results in a BUG() on a second attempt to
bring the interface up, reported in
<http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15091>, and probably has even
worse effects if the driver is removed afterwards.
Call netdev_close() to clean up on failure.
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15091
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Reported-by: Michael Moffatt <michael@moffatt.org.nz>
Tested-by: Michael Moffatt <michael@moffatt.org.nz>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/starfire.c | 5 | 
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
| diff --git a/drivers/net/starfire.c b/drivers/net/starfire.c index 95db60adde41..f9521136a869 100644 --- a/drivers/net/starfire.c +++ b/drivers/net/starfire.c | |||
| @@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ static int netdev_open(struct net_device *dev) | |||
| 1063 | if (retval) { | 1063 | if (retval) { | 
| 1064 | printk(KERN_ERR "starfire: Failed to load firmware \"%s\"\n", | 1064 | printk(KERN_ERR "starfire: Failed to load firmware \"%s\"\n", | 
| 1065 | FIRMWARE_RX); | 1065 | FIRMWARE_RX); | 
| 1066 | return retval; | 1066 | goto out_init; | 
| 1067 | } | 1067 | } | 
| 1068 | if (fw_rx->size % 4) { | 1068 | if (fw_rx->size % 4) { | 
| 1069 | printk(KERN_ERR "starfire: bogus length %zu in \"%s\"\n", | 1069 | printk(KERN_ERR "starfire: bogus length %zu in \"%s\"\n", | 
| @@ -1108,6 +1108,9 @@ out_tx: | |||
| 1108 | release_firmware(fw_tx); | 1108 | release_firmware(fw_tx); | 
| 1109 | out_rx: | 1109 | out_rx: | 
| 1110 | release_firmware(fw_rx); | 1110 | release_firmware(fw_rx); | 
| 1111 | out_init: | ||
| 1112 | if (retval) | ||
| 1113 | netdev_close(dev); | ||
| 1111 | return retval; | 1114 | return retval; | 
| 1112 | } | 1115 | } | 
| 1113 | 1116 | ||
