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Re: [rfc patch] libertas: fix if_spi_prog_helper_firmware()

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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:07 +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The indenting is not correct here.  I don't have this hardware and I'm
> just guessing as to what was intended.  I think that if there is an
> error we should return an error code, but if there isn't an error we
> should return success directly without releasing the firmware.

>  		goto release_firmware;
>  	err = spu_write_u16(card, IF_SPI_CARD_INT_CAUSE_REG,
>  				IF_SPI_CIC_CMD_DOWNLOAD_OVER);
> +	if (err)
>  		goto release_firmware;
>  
> -	lbs_deb_spi("waiting for helper to boot...\n");
> +	lbs_deb_spi("helper firmware loaded...\n");
> +
> +	return 0;
>  
>  release_firmware:
>  	release_firmware(firmware);

This doesn't look correct, the caller of this function also sometimes
releases the firmware, but it looks like it could lead to a double-free?

johannes

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