Re: [PATCH] firmware: request_firmware() should propagate -ERESTARTSYS

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 03:16:07PM +0200, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
> When -ERESTARTSYS is returned by wait_* due to a signal this should
> be returned from request_firmware() so that the syscall may be
> restarted if necessary.
> 
> Without this it is not possible to distinguish the case of
> request_firmware() failing due to a timeout with that due to a signal.
> 
> In my particular case request_firmware() was being called from
> a sysfs .store() callback and the writing process was the
> Android init process which received a SIGCHLD causing
> request_firmware() to fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@parkeon.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/firmware_class.c |    7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Nice find, should this go to the stable kernels as well?

thanks,

greg k-h