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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2012-06-05 19:56:06 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-06-05 14:27:29 -0400 |
| commit | f69a23b795d6ee3673583146ed7efcbaaa5add18 (patch) | |
| tree | fdf77d4e1d59490a1f5c1584cb853a3fe32c8255 /drivers/net | |
| parent | fcb6ff5e2cb83e1de10631f6621f45ca3401bf61 (diff) | |
iwlwifi: fix double free/complete in firmware loading
Linus reported that due to mac80211 failing to register
the device (due to WoWLAN) his machine crashed etc. as
we double-freed the vmalloc() firmware area. His patch
to fix it was very similar to this one but I noticed
that there's another bug in the area: we complete the
completion before starting, so since we're running in
a work struct context stop() could be called while in
the middle of start() which will almost certainly lead
to issues.
Make a modification similar to his to avoid the double-
free but also move the completion to another spot so it
is only done after start() either finished or failed so
that stop() can have a consistent state.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c index d742900969ea..fac67a526a30 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-drv.c @@ -861,13 +861,18 @@ static void iwl_ucode_callback(const struct firmware *ucode_raw, void *context) /* We have our copies now, allow OS release its copies */ release_firmware(ucode_raw); - complete(&drv->request_firmware_complete); drv->op_mode = iwl_dvm_ops.start(drv->trans, drv->cfg, &drv->fw); if (!drv->op_mode) - goto out_free_fw; + goto out_unbind; + /* + * Complete the firmware request last so that + * a driver unbind (stop) doesn't run while we + * are doing the start() above. + */ + complete(&drv->request_firmware_complete); return; try_again: |