This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: rtlwifi: do not complete firmware loading needlessly
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wifi-rtlwifi-do-not-complete-firmware-loading-needle.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 1d538fc0b3733ce833b11f958ed50044664d0a4a
Author: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 7 10:33:18 2024 -0300
wifi: rtlwifi: do not complete firmware loading needlessly
[ Upstream commit e73e11d303940119e41850a0452a0deda2cc4eb5 ]
The only code waiting for completion is driver removal, which will not be
called when probe returns a failure. So this completion is unnecessary.
Fixes: b0302aba812b ("rtlwifi: Convert to asynchronous firmware load")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241107133322.855112-2-cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c
index 1c77b3b2173c8..a31d013d8815a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c
@@ -2282,7 +2282,6 @@ int rtl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
pci_iounmap(pdev, (void __iomem *)rtlpriv->io.pci_mem_start);
pci_release_regions(pdev);
- complete(&rtlpriv->firmware_loading_complete);
fail1:
if (hw)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c
index fc1548ad434f6..b5b95ec1231e0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -1083,7 +1083,6 @@ int rtl_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
error_out2:
_rtl_usb_io_handler_release(hw);
usb_put_dev(udev);
- complete(&rtlpriv->firmware_loading_complete);
kfree(rtlpriv->usb_data);
return -ENODEV;
}
