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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix leakes in request_firmware_nowait
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:13:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051111181322.7fbb887a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4373C03F.1070301@free.fr>

matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr> wrote:
>
> @@ -511,18 +511,23 @@
>   {
>   	struct firmware_work *fw_work = arg;
>   	const struct firmware *fw;
>  +	int ret;
>   	if (!arg) {
>   		WARN_ON(1);
>   		return 0;
>   	}
>   	daemonize("%s/%s", "firmware", fw_work->name);
>  -	_request_firmware(&fw, fw_work->name, fw_work->device,
>  +	ret = _request_firmware(&fw, fw_work->name, fw_work->device,
>   		fw_work->hotplug);
>  -	fw_work->cont(fw, fw_work->context);
>  -	release_firmware(fw);
>  +	if (ret < 0)
>  +		fw_work->cont(NULL, fw_work->context);
>  +	else {
>  +		fw_work->cont(fw, fw_work->context);
>  +		release_firmware(fw);
>  +	}
>   	module_put(fw_work->module);
>   	kfree(fw_work);
>  -	return 0;
>  +	return ret;
>   }

What does the call to fw_work->cont(NULL, ...) do?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-12  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-10 21:45 [PATCH] fix leakes in request_firmware_nowait matthieu castet
2005-11-10 21:48 ` matthieu castet
2005-11-12  2:13   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-11-12 13:48     ` matthieu castet

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