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authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>2012-05-04 08:27:43 -0500
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-05-14 13:51:24 -0400
commit574e02abaf816b582685805f0c1150ca9f1f18ee (patch)
tree51d3bd9e4ddb589ee4fafdde00b5d1a6c090b3dc /drivers/net
parented90542b0ce5415050c6fbfca324bccaafa69f2f (diff)
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rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached
In commit b0302ab, the rtlwifi family of drivers was converted to use asynchronous firmware loading. Unfortumately, the implementation was racy, and the ieee80211 routines could be started before rtl_init_core() was called to setup the data. This patch fixes the bug noted in https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43187. Reported-by: Joshua Roys <Joshua.Roys@gtri.gatech.edu> Tested-by: Neptune Ning <frostyplanet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.3] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c16
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c10
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
index cc15fdb..67f9430 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
@@ -1851,14 +1851,6 @@ int __devinit rtl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
/*like read eeprom and so on */
rtlpriv->cfg->ops->read_eeprom_info(hw);
- if (rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_vars(hw)) {
- RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG, "Can't init_sw_vars\n");
- err = -ENODEV;
- goto fail3;
- }
-
- rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_leds(hw);
-
/*aspm */
rtl_pci_init_aspm(hw);
@@ -1877,6 +1869,14 @@ int __devinit rtl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
goto fail3;
}
+ if (rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_vars(hw)) {
+ RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG, "Can't init_sw_vars\n");
+ err = -ENODEV;
+ goto fail3;
+ }
+
+ rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_leds(hw);
+
err = sysfs_create_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &rtl_attribute_group);
if (err) {
RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG,
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
index d04dbda..a6049d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -971,11 +971,6 @@ int __devinit rtl_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
rtlpriv->cfg->ops->read_chip_version(hw);
/*like read eeprom and so on */
rtlpriv->cfg->ops->read_eeprom_info(hw);
- if (rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_vars(hw)) {
- RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG, "Can't init_sw_vars\n");
- goto error_out;
- }
- rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_leds(hw);
err = _rtl_usb_init(hw);
if (err)
goto error_out;
@@ -987,6 +982,11 @@ int __devinit rtl_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
"Can't allocate sw for mac80211\n");
goto error_out;
}
+ if (rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_vars(hw)) {
+ RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG, "Can't init_sw_vars\n");
+ goto error_out;
+ }
+ rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_leds(hw);
return 0;
error_out:
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