From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120527010433.064806572@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 10:05:29 +0900 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Larry Finger , "John W. Linville" Subject: [ 66/94] b43legacy: Fix error due to MMIO access with SSB unpowered In-Reply-To: <20120527010332.GA11170@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Larry Finger commit 8f4b20388fa77226a3605627a33a23f90d559e50 upstream. There is a dummy read of a PCI MMIO register that occurs before the SSB bus has been powered, which is an error. This bug has not been seen earlier, but was apparently exposed when udev was updated to version 182. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c @@ -1564,8 +1564,6 @@ static int b43legacy_request_firmware(st const char *filename; int err; - /* do dummy read */ - ssb_read32(dev->dev, SSB_TMSHIGH); if (!fw->ucode) { if (rev == 2) filename = "ucode2";