Before this commit both code paths (hotplug and not-hotplug as determined by FW_OPT_UEVENT) would block on an interruptible completion, but the hotplugscenario also would wait until timeout and then abort. The non hotplugscenario (which dell-rbu followed) would block indefinitely until interrupted. After this commit both scenarios block on an interruptible condition but the hotplug scenario follows the value of firmware_loading_timeout to end. This changed the situation for the non hotplug scenario to instead wait for MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET. This should have the same result, but dell-rbu was failing with negative values returned from wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout after completion occurred. This shouldn't be possible, but it was happening because the return is a long but the value it was being saved to was an int. When completion occurs quickly wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout returns how much time was left (which happens to be a very big number since the timeout was MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET) One test run of mine returned 4611686018427368747. Other parts of the kernel with this type of return don't have problems because they use smaller timeouts. So to fix this: change the test to not store the value to an int, but rather directly compare against what wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout can return. Fixes: 68ff2a00dbf59 (firmware_loader: handle timeout via wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout()) CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx CC: stuart_hayes@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c index 773fc30..223af70 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c @@ -917,14 +917,11 @@ static int _request_firmware_load(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv, timeout = MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET; } - retval = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(&buf->completion, - timeout); - if (retval == -ERESTARTSYS || !retval) { + if (wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(&buf->completion, + timeout) <= 0) { mutex_lock(&fw_lock); fw_load_abort(fw_priv); mutex_unlock(&fw_lock); - } else if (retval > 0) { - retval = 0; } if (is_fw_load_aborted(buf)) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html