netdev_open() will return without cleaning up net device or hardware state
if firmware loading fails. This results in a BUG() on a second attempt to
bring the interface up, reported in
<http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15091>, and probably has even
worse effects if the driver is removed afterwards.
Call netdev_close() to clean up on failure.
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15091
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Reported-by: Michael Moffatt <michael@moffatt.org.nz>
Tested-by: Michael Moffatt <michael@moffatt.org.nz>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
if (retval) {
printk(KERN_ERR "starfire: Failed to load firmware \"%s\"\n",
FIRMWARE_RX);
- return retval;
+ goto out_init;
}
if (fw_rx->size % 4) {
printk(KERN_ERR "starfire: bogus length %zu in \"%s\"\n",
release_firmware(fw_tx);
out_rx:
release_firmware(fw_rx);
+out_init:
+ if (retval)
+ netdev_close(dev);
return retval;
}