Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] firmware: few fixes for name uses

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:49:39PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> This v3 changes patch 1 to just return -ENOMEM and remove the
> unlikely() optimization. It also drops the early truncation
> checks.
> 
> Luis R. Rodriguez (4):
>   firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
>   firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
>   firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
>   firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
> 
>  drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Ming, a review would be much appreciated. I also have a few other changes coming
later, so should these go through Greg or Takashi first ? If its of any help
I'm happy to take on co-maintenance on this module given that I am lookng
to do quite a bit of surgery on the APIs later.

 Luis
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