FW_STATUS_ABORT can be set only during the user-helper invocation,
thus we can ignore the check when CONFIG_HW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is
disabled.
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
By shuffling the code, reduce a few ifdefs in firmware_class.c.
Also, firmware_buf fmt field is changed to is_pages_buf boolean for
simplification.
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch adds a new kconfig, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, and
guards the user-helper codes in firmware_class.c with ifdefs.
Yeah, yeah, there are lots of ifdefs in this patch. The further
clean-up with code shuffling follows in the next.
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Since 3.7 kernel, the firmware loader can read the firmware files
directly, and the traditional user-mode helper is invoked only as a
fallback. This seems working pretty well, and the next step would be
to reduce the redundant user-mode helper stuff in future.
This patch is a preparation for that: refactor the code for splitting
user-mode helper stuff more easily. No functional change.
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
If the requested firmware file size is 0 bytes in the filesytem, we
will try to vmalloc(0), which causes a warning:
vmalloc: allocation failure: 0 bytes
kworker/1:1: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0xd2
__vmalloc_node_range+0x164/0x208
__vmalloc_node+0x4c/0x58
vmalloc+0x38/0x44
_request_firmware_load+0x220/0x6b0
request_firmware+0x64/0xc8
wl18xx_setup+0xb4/0x570 [wl18xx]
wlcore_nvs_cb+0x64/0x9f8 [wlcore]
request_firmware_work_func+0x94/0x100
process_one_work+0x1d0/0x750
worker_thread+0x184/0x4ac
kthread+0xb4/0xc0
To fix this, check whether the file size is less than or equal to zero
in fw_read_file_contents().
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.7]
Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch documents the firmware cache mechanism so that
users of request_firmware() know that it can be called
safely inside device's suspend and resume callback, and
the device's firmware needn't be cached any more by individual
driver itself to deal with firmware loss during system resume.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch introduces one module parameter of 'path' in firmware_class
to support customizing firmware image search path, so that people can
use its own firmware path if the default built-in paths can't meet their
demand[1], and the typical usage is passing the below from kernel command
parameter when 'firmware_class' is built in kernel:
firmware_class.path=$CUSTOMIZED_PATH
[1], https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/11/337
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The comment above fw_file_size() suggests it is noinline for stack size
reasons. Use noinline_for_stack to make this more clear.
Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is one race that both request_firmware() with the same
firmware name.
The race scenerio is as below:
CPU1 CPU2
request_firmware() -->
_request_firmware_load() return err another request_firmware() is coming -->
_request_firmware_cleanup is called --> _request_firmware_prepare -->
release_firmware ---> fw_lookup_and_allocate_buf -->
spin_lock(&fwc->lock)
... __fw_lookup_buf() return true
fw_free_buf() will be called --> ...
kref_put -->
decrease the refcount to 0
kref_get(&tmp->ref) ==> it will trigger warning
due to refcount == 0
__fw_free_buf() -->
... spin_unlock(&fwc->lock)
spin_lock(&fwc->lock)
list_del(&buf->list)
spin_unlock(&fwc->lock)
kfree(buf)
After that, the freed buf will be used.
The key race is decreasing refcount to 0 and list_del is not protected together by
fwc->lock, and it is possible another thread try to get it between refcount==0
and list_del.
Fix it here to protect it together.
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is a race as below when calling request_firmware():
CPU1 CPU2
write 0 > loading
mutex_lock(&fw_lock)
...
set_bit FW_STATUS_DONE class_timeout is coming
set_bit FW_STATUS_ABORT
complete_all &completion
...
mutex_unlock(&fw_lock)
In this time, the bit FW_STATUS_DONE and FW_STATUS_ABORT are set,
and request_firmware() will return failure due to condition in
_request_firmware_load():
if (!buf->size || test_bit(FW_STATUS_ABORT, &buf->status))
retval = -ENOENT;
But from the above scenerio, it should be a successful requesting.
So we need judge if the bit FW_STATUS_DONE is already set before
calling fw_load_abort() in timeout function.
As Ming's proposal, we need change the timer into sched_work to
benefit from using &fw_lock mutex also.
Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
async.c has provided synchronization mechanism on async_schedule_*,
so use async_synchronize_full_domain to sync caching firmware instead
of reinventing the wheel.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Firstly 'firmware_buf' is introduced to make all loading requests
to share one firmware kernel buffer, so firmware_buf should
be used in direct loading for saving memory and speedup firmware
loading.
Secondly, the commit below
abb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e(firmware:teach
the kernel to load firmware files directly from the filesystem)
introduces direct loading for fixing udev regression, but it
bypasses the firmware cache meachnism, so this patch enables
caching firmware for direct loading case since it is still needed
to solve drivers' dependency during system resume.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Several loading requests may be pending on one same
firmware buf, and this patch moves fw_map_pages_buf()
before complete_all(&fw_buf->completion) and let all
requests see the mapped 'buf->data' once the loading
is completed.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Under 'Opportunistic sleep' situation, system sleep might be
triggered very frequently, so the uncahce work may not be completed
before caching firmware during next suspend.
This patch cancels the uncache work before caching firmware to
fix the problem above.
Also this patch optimizes the cacheing firmware mechanism a bit by
only storing one firmware cache entry for one firmware image.
So if the firmware is still cached during suspend, it doesn't need
to be loaded from user space any more.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fengguang correctly points out that the firmware reading should not use
vfs_read(), since the buffer is in kernel space.
The vfs_read() just happened to work for kernel threads, but sparse
warns about the incorrect address spaces, and it's definitely incorrect
and could fail for other users of the firmware loading.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a first step in allowing people to by-pass udev for loading
device firmware. Current versions of udev will deadlock (causing us to
block for the 30 second timeout) under some circumstances if the
firmware is loaded as part of the module initialization path, and this
is causing problems for media drivers in particular.
The current patch hardcodes the firmware path that udev uses by default,
and will fall back to the legacy udev mode if the firmware cannot be
found there. We'd like to add support for both configuring the paths
and the fallback behaviour, but in the meantime this hopefully fixes the
immediate problem, while also giving us a way forward.
[ v2: Some VFS layer interface cleanups suggested by Al Viro ]
[ v3: use the default udev paths suggested by Kay Sievers ]
Suggested-by: Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@redhat.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch replaces the previous macro of CONFIG_PM with
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP becasue firmware cache is only used in
system sleep situations.
Also this patch fixes the below compile warning when
CONFIG_PM=n:
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1147: warning: 'device_cache_fw_images'
defined but not used
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:1212: warning:
'device_uncache_fw_images_delay' defined but not used
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
After starting caching firmware, there is still some time left
before devices are suspended, during the period, request_firmware
or its nowait version may still be triggered by the below situations
to load firmware images which can't be cached during suspend/resume
cycle.
- new devices added
- driver bind
- or device open kind of things
This patch utilizes the piggyback trick to cache firmware for
this kind of situation: just increase the firmware buf's reference
count and add the fw name entry into cache entry list after starting
caching firmware and before syscore_suspend() is called.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
If the requested firmware image doesn't exist, firmware->priv
should be set for the later concurrent requests, otherwise
warning and oops will be triggered inside firmware_free_data().
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
device_cache_fw_images need to iterate devices in system,
so this patch applies the introduced dpm_for_each_dev to
avoid link failure if CONFIG_FW_LOADER is m.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
'return 0' should be added to fw_pm_notify if !PM because
return value of the funcion is defined as 'int'.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch implements caching devices' firmware automatically
during system syspend/resume cycle, so any device drivers can
call request_firmware or request_firmware_nowait inside resume
path to get the cached firmware if they have loaded firmwares
successfully at least once before entering suspend.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Because device_cache_fw_images only cache the firmware which has been
loaded sucessfully at leat once, using a small loading timeout should
be reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch introduces the three helpers below:
void device_cache_fw_images(void)
void device_uncache_fw_images(void)
void device_uncache_fw_images_delay(unsigned long)
so we can use device_cache_fw_images() to cache firmware for
all devices which need firmware to work, and the device driver
can get the firmware easily from kernel memory when system isn't
ready for completing requests of loading firmware.
After system is ready for completing firmware loading, driver core
will call device_uncache_fw_images() or its delay version to free
the cached firmware.
The above helpers will be used to cache device firmware during
system suspend/resume cycle in the following patches.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch will store firmware name into devres list of the device
which is requesting firmware loading, so that we can implement
auto cache and uncache firmware for devices in need.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
request_firmware_nowait is allowed to be called in atomic
context now if @gfp is GFP_ATOMIC, so fix the obsolete
comments and states which situations are suitable for using
it.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Callers of request_firmware* must hold the reference count of
@device, otherwise it is easy to trigger oops since the firmware
loader device is the child of @device.
This patch adds comments about the usage. In fact, most of drivers
call request_firmware* in its probe() or open(), so the constraint
should be reasonable and can be satisfied.
Also this patch holds the reference count of @device before
schedule_work() in request_firmware_nowait() to avoid that
the @device is released after request_firmware_nowait returns
and before the worker function is scheduled.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patches introduce two kernel APIs of cache_firmware and
uncache_firmware, both of which take the firmware file name
as the only parameter.
So any drivers can call cache_firmware to cache the specified
firmware file into kernel memory, and can use the cached firmware
in situations which can't request firmware from user space.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch always let firmware_buf own the pages buffer allocated
inside firmware_data_write, and add all instances of firmware_buf
into the firmware cache global list. Also introduce one private field
in 'struct firmware', so release_firmware will see the instance of
firmware_buf associated with the current firmware instance, then just
'free' the instance of firmware_buf.
The firmware_buf instance represents one pages buffer for one
firmware image, so lots of firmware loading requests can share
the same firmware_buf instance if they request the same firmware
image file.
This patch will make implementation of the following cache_firmware/
uncache_firmware very easy and simple.
In fact, the patch improves request_formware/release_firmware:
- only request userspace to write firmware image once if
several devices share one same firmware image and its drivers
call request_firmware concurrently.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch introduces struct firmware_buf to describe the buffer
which holds the firmware data, which will make the following
cache_firmware/uncache_firmware implemented easily.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
If one device driver calls request_firmware_nowait() to request
several different firmwares' loading, device_add() will return
failure since all firmware loader device use same name of the
device who is requesting firmware.
This patch always use the name of firmware image as the firmware
loader device name to fix the problem since the following patches
for caching firmware will make sure only one loading for same
firmware is alllowd at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The wmb() inside fw_load_abort is not necessary, since
complete() and wait_on_completion() has implied one pair
of memory barrier.
Also wmb() isn't a correct usage, so just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes two races in loading firmware:
1, FW_STATUS_DONE should be set before waking up the task waitting
on _request_firmware_load, otherwise FW_STATUS_ABORT may be
thought as DONE mistakenly.
2, Inside _request_firmware_load(), there is a small window between
wait_for_completion() and mutex_lock(&fw_lock), and 'echo 1 > loading'
still may happen during the period, so this patch checks FW_STATUS_DONE
to prevent pages' buffer completed from being freed in firmware_loading_store.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch doesn't transfer ownership of pages' buffer to the
instance of firmware until the firmware loading is completed,
which will simplify firmware_loading_store a lot, so help
to introduce the following cache_firmware and uncache_firmware
mechanism during system suspend-resume cycle.
In fact, this patch fixes one bug: if writing data into
firmware loader device is bypassed between writting 1 and 0 to
'loading', OOPS will be triggered without the patch.
Also handle the vmap failure case, and add some comments to make
code more readable.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Oddly enough a work_struct was already part of the firmware_work
structure but nobody was using it. Instead of creating a new
kthread for each request_firmware_nowait() call just schedule the
work on the system workqueue. This should avoid some overhead
in forking new threads when they're not strictly necessary.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Recent patches to split up the three phases of request_firmware()
lead to a casting away of const in fw_create_instance(). We can
avoid this cast by splitting up fw_create_instance() a bit.
Make _request_firmware_setup() return a struct fw_priv and use
that struct instead of passing struct firmware to
_request_firmware(). Move the uevent and device file creation
bits to the loading phase and rename the function to
_request_firmware_load() to better reflect its purpose.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
If firmware is requested asynchronously, by calling
request_firmware_nowait(), there is no reason to fail the request
(and warn the user) when the system is (presumably temporarily)
unready to handle it (because user space is not available yet or
frozen). For this reason, introduce an alternative routine for
read-locking umhelper_sem, usermodehelper_read_lock_wait(), that
will wait for usermodehelper_disabled to be unset (possibly with
a timeout) and make request_firmware_work_func() use it instead of
usermodehelper_read_trylock().
Accordingly, modify request_firmware() so that it uses
usermodehelper_read_trylock() to acquire umhelper_sem and remove
the code related to that lock from _request_firmware().
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Split _request_firmware() into three functions,
_request_firmware_prepare() doing preparatory work that need not be
done under umhelper_sem, _request_firmware_cleanup() doing the
post-error cleanup and _request_firmware() carrying out the remaining
operations.
This change is requisite for moving the acquisition of umhelper_sem
from _request_firmware() to the callers, which is going to be done
subsequently.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Instead of two functions, read_lock_usermodehelper() and
usermodehelper_is_disabled(), used in combination, introduce
usermodehelper_read_trylock() that will only return with umhelper_sem
held if usermodehelper_disabled is unset (and will return -EAGAIN
otherwise) and make _request_firmware() use it.
Rename read_unlock_usermodehelper() to
usermodehelper_read_unlock() to follow the naming convention of the
new function.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Commit b298d289
"PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()"
added read_unlock_usermodehelper() but read_unlock_usermodehelper() is called
without read_lock_usermodehelper() when kmalloc() failed.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (76 commits)
PM / Hibernate: Implement compat_ioctl for /dev/snapshot
PM / Freezer: fix return value of freezable_schedule_timeout_killable()
PM / shmobile: Allow the A4R domain to be turned off at run time
PM / input / touchscreen: Make st1232 use device PM QoS constraints
PM / QoS: Introduce dev_pm_qos_add_ancestor_request()
PM / shmobile: Remove the stay_on flag from SH7372's PM domains
PM / shmobile: Don't include SH7372's INTCS in syscore suspend/resume
PM / shmobile: Add support for the sh7372 A4S power domain / sleep mode
PM: Drop generic_subsys_pm_ops
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from AMBA bus type
PM / Sleep: Remove forward-only callbacks from platform bus type
PM: Run the driver callback directly if the subsystem one is not there
PM / Sleep: Make pm_op() and pm_noirq_op() return callback pointers
PM/Devfreq: Add Exynos4-bus device DVFS driver for Exynos4210/4212/4412.
PM / Sleep: Merge internal functions in generic_ops.c
PM / Sleep: Simplify generic system suspend callbacks
PM / Hibernate: Remove deprecated hibernation snapshot ioctls
PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()
ARM: S3C64XX: Implement basic power domain support
PM / shmobile: Use common always on power domain governor
...
Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c due to removal of unused
XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
This oops was reported recently:
firmware_loading_store+0xf9/0x17b
dev_attr_store+0x20/0x22
sysfs_write_file+0x101/0x134
vfs_write+0xac/0xf3
sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The complete backtrace was unfortunately not captured, but details can be found
here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769920
The cause is fairly clear.
Its caused by the fact that firmware_loading_store has a case 0 in its
switch statement that reads and writes the fw_priv->fw poniter without the
protection of the fw_lock mutex. since there is a window between the time that
_request_firmware sets fw_priv->fw to NULL and the time the corresponding sysfs
file is unregistered, its possible for a user space application to race in, and
write a zero to the loading file, causing a NULL dereference in
firmware_loading_store. Fix it by extending the protection of the fw_lock mutex
to cover all of the firware_loading_store function.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Commit a144c6a (PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks
are frozen) introduced usermodehelper_is_disabled() to warn and exit
immediately if firmware is requested when usermodehelpers are disabled.
However, it is racy. Consider the following scenario, currently used in
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:
...
if (usermodehelper_is_disabled())
goto out;
/* Do actual work */
...
out:
return err;
Nothing prevents someone from disabling usermodehelpers just after the check
in the 'if' condition, which means that it is quite possible to try doing the
"actual work" with usermodehelpers disabled, leading to undesirable
consequences.
In particular, this race condition in _request_firmware() causes task freezing
failures whenever suspend/hibernation is in progress because, it wrongly waits
to get the firmware/microcode image from userspace when actually the
usermodehelpers are disabled or userspace has been frozen.
Some of the example scenarios that cause freezing failures due to this race
are those that depend on userspace via request_firmware(), such as x86
microcode module initialization and microcode image reload.
Previous discussions about this issue can be found at:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1198291/focus=1200591
This patch adds proper synchronization to fix this issue.
It is to be noted that this patchset fixes the freezing failures but doesn't
remove the warnings. IOW, it does not attempt to add explicit synchronization
to x86 microcode driver to avoid requesting microcode image at inopportune
moments. Because, the warnings were introduced to highlight such cases, in the
first place. And we need not silence the warnings, since we take care of the
*real* problem (freezing failure) and hence, after that, the warnings are
pretty harmless anyway.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
In commit a144c6a6c9 ("PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested
when tasks are frozen") we not only printed a warning if somebody tried
to load the firmware when tasks are frozen - we also failed the load.
But that check was done before the check for built-in firmware, and then
when we disallowed usermode helpers during bootup (commit 288d5abec8:
"Boot up with usermodehelper disabled"), that actually means that
built-in modules can no longer load their firmware even if the firmware
is built in too. Which used to work, and some people depended on it for
the R100 driver.
So move the test for usermodehelper_is_disabled() down, to after
checking the built-in firmware.
This should fix:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40952
Reported-by: James Cloos <cloos@hjcloos.com>
Bisected-by: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>
Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some drivers erroneously use request_firmware() from their ->resume()
(or ->thaw(), or ->restore()) callbacks, which is not going to work
unless the firmware has been built in. This causes system resume to
stall until the firmware-loading timeout expires, which makes users
think that the resume has failed and reboot their machines
unnecessarily. For this reason, make _request_firmware() print a
warning and return immediately with error code if it has been called
when tasks are frozen and it's impossible to start any new usermode
helpers.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Some place in firmware_class.c using "int uevent" define, but others use "bool
uevent".
This patch replace all int uevent define to bool.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
In the error path, _request_firmware sets
firmware_p to NULL rather than *firmware_p,
which leads to passing a freed firmware
struct to drivers when the firmware file
cannot be found. Fix this.
Broken by commit f8a4bd3456.
Reported-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Both these structures have the same lifetime rules so instead of allocating
and managing them separately embed struct device into struct firmware_priv.
Also make sure to delete sysfs attributes ourselves instead of expecting
sysfs to clean up our mess.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is no reason why we are using a template for binary attribute
and copying it into per-firmware data before registering. Using the
original works as well.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fw_id has the same life time as firmware_priv so it makes sense to move
it into firmware_priv structure instead of allocating separately.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Split builtin firmware handling into separate functions to clean up the
main body of code.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Do not create 'timeout' attribute manually, let driver core do it for us.
This also ensures that attribute is cleaned up properly.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
When we use request_firmware_nowait(), userspace may
not want to answer negatively right away when for
example it is answering from an initrd only, but
with request_firmware() it has to in order to not
delay the kernel boot until the request times out.
This allows userspace to differentiate between the
two in order to be able to reply negatively to async
requests only when all filesystems have been mounted
and have been checked for the requested firmware file.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The messages from _request_firmware() informing that firmware is
being requested or built-in firmware is going to be used are printed
at KERN_INFO, which produces lots of noise on systems with huge
numbers of AMD CPUs. Reduce the level of these messages to
KERN_DEBUG to get rid of that noise.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fix memory leak introduced by the patch 6e03a201bb:
firmware: speed up request_firmware()
1. vfree won't release pages there were allocated explicitly and mapped
using vmap. The memory has to be vunmap-ed and the pages needs
to be freed explicitly
2. page array is moved into the 'struct
firmware' so that we can free it from release_firmware()
and not only in fw_dev_release()
The fix doesn't break the firmware load speed.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Singed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Fix kernel-doc warning in firmware_class.c:
Warning(drivers/base/firmware_class.c:94): No description found for parameter 'attr'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The function name must be followed by a space, hypen, space, and a
short description.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
base.h is used by base drivers for sharing internal structures.
Turns out firmware_class does not depend on it at all so remove it.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.
Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.
This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.
This will allow further cleanups in drivers.
Full tree sweep converting all users.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Unfortunately, one cannot hold on to the struct firmware
that request_firmware_nowait() hands off, which is needed
in some cases. Allow this by requiring the callback to
free it (via release_firmware).
Additionally, give it a gfp_t parameter -- all the current
users call it from a GFP_KERNEL context so the GFP_ATOMIC
isn't necessary. This also marks an API break which is
useful in a sense, although that is obviously not the
primary purpose of this change.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The page pointers array is allocated in fw_realloc_buffer() called by
firmware_data_write(), and should be freed in release function of firmware
device.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The f_dev in _request_firmware() is allocated via the fw_setup_device()
and fw_register_device() calls and its class set to firmware_class (the
class release function is fw_dev_release).
Commit 6acf70f078 replaced the kfree(dev) in fw_dev_release() with a
put_device() call but my understanding is that the release function is
called via put_device -> kobject_put -> kref_put -> koject_release etc.
and it should call kfree since it's the last to see this device
structure alive.
Because of that, the _request_firmware() function on its -ENOENT error
path only calls device_unregister(f_dev) which would eventually call
fw_dev_release() but there is no kfree (the subsequent put_device call
would just make the kref negative).
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This removes the
warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
warnings in the driver core that gcc 4.3.3 complains about.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The firmware loader has a statically allocated 30 bytes long string for
the firmware id (a.k.a. the firmware file name). There is no reason why
we couldnt allocate it dynamically, and avoid having restrictions on the
firmware names lengths.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
request_firmware_nowait declares it can be called in non-sleep contexts,
but kthead_run called by request_firmware_nowait may sleep. So fix its
documentation and comment to make callers clear about it.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Rather than calling vmalloc() repeatedly to grow the firmware image as
we receive data from userspace, just allocate and fill individual pages.
Then vmap() the whole lot in one go when we're done.
A quick test with a 337KiB iwlagn firmware shows the time taken for
request_firmware() going from ~32ms to ~5ms after I apply this patch.
[v2: define PAGE_KERNEL_RO as PAGE_KERNEL where necessary, use min_t()]
[v3: kunmap() takes the struct page *, not the virtual address]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
from struct device, based on the following ideas:
1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.
2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)
This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
as private part of struct device in future.
[This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please
ignore the last version.]
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Some drivers have their own hacks to bypass the kernel's firmware loader
and build their firmware into the kernel; this renders those unnecessary.
Other drivers don't use the firmware loader at all, because they always
want the firmware to be available. This allows them to start using the
firmware loader.
A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be
used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd.
This allows them to work in a static kernel.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static
kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so
that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than
having to copy it).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Before requesting firmware, printk a message saying what we're requesting. This
makes it easier to see what's going on, and provides an explanation for the
huge silent delay that one would otherwise get after accidentally building
ipw2200 as a non-module.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This reverts commit 109f0e93b6.
The original patch breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines. The path to
the firmware file for the dell_rbu driver changes, which breaks all of
the userspace tools which rely on it.
Note that this patch re-introduces a problem with i2c name collision
that was previously fixed by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
following patch fixes the i2c name collision with i2c-dev.
http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Bugtracker#i2c_core_problem
This issue has been experienced with em28xx and saa7133 based devices.
I discussed that problem with Jean Delvare a while ago and he proposed
to add a prefix to the class name.
Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.
Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
error handling.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix undocumented function parameters in PCI and drivers/base.
Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//drivers/pci/pci.c:1526): No description found for parameter 'rq'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//drivers/base/firmware_class.c:245): No description found for parameter 'bin_attr'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.
What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.
In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(
Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)
Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.
Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.
This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.
For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Manuel Estrada Sainz passed away on May 9th 2004, his email account got
deactivated. He was in charge of the firmware_class code, and still got
CC'ed in recent discussions about it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in
firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY
and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174589
The ipw driver sometimes takes a long time to load its firmware.
Whilst the ipw driver should be using the async interface of
the firmware loader to make this a non-issue, this is a minimal fix.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Replace kernel_thread() call in drivers/base/firmware_class.c with
kthread_create() since kernel_thread() is deprecated in drivers.
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Using request_firmware to pull ucode from userspace, so we don't need the
application 'microcode_ctl' to assist. We name each ucode file according
to CPU's info as intel-ucode/family-model-stepping. In this way we could
split ucode file as small one. This has a lot of advantages such as
selectively update and validate microcode for specific models, better
manage microcode file, easily write tools for administerators and so on.
with the changes, we should put all intel-ucode/xx-xx-xx microcode files
into the firmware dir (I had a tool to split previous big data file into
small one and later we will release new style data file). The init script
should be changed to just loading the driver without unloading
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hi, this patch converts semaphores to mutexes for Randy's firmware_class.
Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
- remove the following global function that is both unused and
unimplemented:
- register_firmware()
- make the following needlessly global function static:
- firmware_class_uevent()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The fw_realloc_buffer routine does not handle an increase in buffer size of
more than 4k. It's not clear to me why it expects that it will only get an
extra 4k of data. The attached patch modifies fw_realloc_buffer to vmalloc
as much memory as is requested, instead of what we previously had + 4k.
I've tested this on my laptop, which would crash occaisionally on boot
without the patch. With the patch, it hasn't crashed, but I can't be
certain that this code path is exercised.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;
- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
mm/, security/, & sound/;
many more drivers/ to go)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
