From: Roland Vossen Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:13:51 +0000 (+0100) Subject: staging: brcm80211: bugfix for stack dump on firmware load problems X-Git-Tag: v2.6.39-rc1~469^2~523 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=490e00f68534cd724ba8e486ff6cd6b10d1891b1;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git staging: brcm80211: bugfix for stack dump on firmware load problems If there is a problem with the firmware load (eg, firmware not present in /lib/firmware/brcm), then the driver would dump its stack instead of bailing out gracefully. Root cause was an uninitialized variable (wl->pub) being dereferenced in the rfkill portion of a cleanup routine (wl_remove). Fix was to move the rfkill calls into the correct spot in wl_remove(). Signed-off-by: Roland Vossen Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c index bf98a151de6..20afb13614e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c +++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c @@ -1206,15 +1206,13 @@ static void wl_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) return; } - /* make sure rfkill is not using driver */ - wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state(wl->pub->ieee_hw->wiphy, false); - wiphy_rfkill_stop_polling(wl->pub->ieee_hw->wiphy); - if (!wlc_chipmatch(pdev->vendor, pdev->device)) { WL_ERROR("wl: wl_remove: wlc_chipmatch failed\n"); return; } if (wl->wlc) { + wiphy_rfkill_set_hw_state(wl->pub->ieee_hw->wiphy, false); + wiphy_rfkill_stop_polling(wl->pub->ieee_hw->wiphy); ieee80211_unregister_hw(hw); WL_LOCK(wl); wl_down(wl);