The request_firmware*() APIs uses __getname() to iterate
over the list of paths possible for firmware to be found,
the code however never checked for failure on __getname().
Although *very unlikely*, this can still happen. Add the
missing check.
There is still no checks on the concatenation of the path
and filename passed, that requires a bit more work and
subsequent patches address this. The commit that introduced
this is
abb139e7 ("firmware: teach the kernel to load
firmware files directly from the filesystem").
mcgrof@ergon ~/linux (git::firmware-fixes) $ git describe --contains
abb139e7
v3.7-rc1~120
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
{
int i;
int rc = -ENOENT;
- char *path = __getname();
+ char *path;
+
+ path = __getname();
+ if (!path)
+ return -ENOMEM;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(fw_path); i++) {
struct file *file;