Re: [PATCH] firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfsloading file

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 03:31:23PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, this patch should also fix the same problem that the Motorola
developers were seeing, yet failed to create a useful patch for :)

greg k-h
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