From caca9510ff4e5d842c0589110243d60927836222 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:55:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow builtin firmware load even if usermodehelper is disabled MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In commit a144c6a6c924 ("PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozen") we not only printed a warning if somebody tried to load the firmware when tasks are frozen - we also failed the load. But that check was done before the check for built-in firmware, and then when we disallowed usermode helpers during bootup (commit 288d5abec831: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled"), that actually means that built-in modules can no longer load their firmware even if the firmware is built in too. Which used to work, and some people depended on it for the R100 driver. So move the test for usermodehelper_is_disabled() down, to after checking the built-in firmware. This should fix: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40952 Reported-by: James Cloos Bisected-by: Elimar Riesebieter Cc: Michel Dänzer Cc: Rafael Wysocki Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c index bbb03e6f7255..06ed6b4e7df5 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c @@ -521,11 +521,6 @@ static int _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, if (!firmware_p) return -EINVAL; - if (WARN_ON(usermodehelper_is_disabled())) { - dev_err(device, "firmware: %s will not be loaded\n", name); - return -EBUSY; - } - *firmware_p = firmware = kzalloc(sizeof(*firmware), GFP_KERNEL); if (!firmware) { dev_err(device, "%s: kmalloc(struct firmware) failed\n", @@ -539,6 +534,12 @@ static int _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, return 0; } + if (WARN_ON(usermodehelper_is_disabled())) { + dev_err(device, "firmware: %s will not be loaded\n", name); + retval = -EBUSY; + goto out; + } + if (uevent) dev_dbg(device, "firmware: requesting %s\n", name); -- 2.11.4.GIT