On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 12:49 -0700, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:53:15AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:[...]3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 2080913e017ab9f88379d93fd09546ad95faf87b upstream.[...]--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include<linux/usb.h>
#include<linux/module.h>
+#include<linux/firmware.h>
#include "osdep_service.h"
#include "drv_types.h"
@@ -620,6 +621,10 @@ static void r871xu_dev_remove(struct usb_interface *pusb_intf)
struct _adapter *padapter = netdev_priv(pnetdev);
struct usb_device *udev = interface_to_usbdev(pusb_intf);
+ if (padapter->fw_found)
+ release_firmware(padapter->fw);
+ /* never exit with a firmware callback pending */
+ wait_for_completion(&padapter->rtl8712_fw_ready);
We also need to apply commit ee6aeff71e2f16b9fe95ce908d098c169e0f4004
after this, due to the possible invalid padapter dereference.
That 'fix' makes no sense since netdev_priv() never returns NULL.
Larry, you should remove the test for pAdapter completely, or if pnetdev
can somehow be NULL then test *that*.