Patch "brcmfmac: use firmware callback upon failure to load" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    brcmfmac: use firmware callback upon failure to load

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     brcmfmac-use-firmware-callback-upon-failure-to-load.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 03fb0e8393fae8ebb6710a99387853ed0becbc8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 12:47:33 +0100
Subject: brcmfmac: use firmware callback upon failure to load

From: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

commit 03fb0e8393fae8ebb6710a99387853ed0becbc8e upstream.

When firmware loading failed the code used to unbind the device provided
by the calling code. However, for the sdio driver two devices are bound
and both need to be released upon failure. The callback has been extended
with parameter to pass error code so add that in this commit upon firmware
loading failure.

Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c |   27 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
@@ -484,39 +484,38 @@ static void brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done(
 fail:
 	brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "failed: dev=%s\n", dev_name(fwctx->dev));
 	release_firmware(fwctx->code);
-	device_release_driver(fwctx->dev);
+	fwctx->done(fwctx->dev, -ENOENT, NULL, NULL, 0);
 	kfree(fwctx);
 }
 
 static void brcmf_fw_request_code_done(const struct firmware *fw, void *ctx)
 {
 	struct brcmf_fw *fwctx = ctx;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "enter: dev=%s\n", dev_name(fwctx->dev));
-	if (!fw)
+	if (!fw) {
+		ret = -ENOENT;
 		goto fail;
-
-	/* only requested code so done here */
-	if (!(fwctx->flags & BRCMF_FW_REQUEST_NVRAM)) {
-		fwctx->done(fwctx->dev, 0, fw, NULL, 0);
-		kfree(fwctx);
-		return;
 	}
+	/* only requested code so done here */
+	if (!(fwctx->flags & BRCMF_FW_REQUEST_NVRAM))
+		goto done;
+
 	fwctx->code = fw;
 	ret = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, fwctx->nvram_name,
 				      fwctx->dev, GFP_KERNEL, fwctx,
 				      brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done);
 
-	if (!ret)
-		return;
-
-	brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done(NULL, fwctx);
+	/* pass NULL to nvram callback for bcm47xx fallback */
+	if (ret)
+		brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done(NULL, fwctx);
 	return;
 
 fail:
 	brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "failed: dev=%s\n", dev_name(fwctx->dev));
-	device_release_driver(fwctx->dev);
+done:
+	fwctx->done(fwctx->dev, ret, fw, NULL, 0);
 	kfree(fwctx);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com are

queue-4.11/brcmfmac-use-firmware-callback-upon-failure-to-load.patch
queue-4.11/brcmfmac-add-parameter-to-pass-error-code-in-firmware-callback.patch
queue-4.11/brcmfmac-unbind-all-devices-upon-failure-in-firmware-callback.patch