This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rtlwifi: Fix fallback firmware loading
to the 4.12-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:
rtlwifi-fix-fallback-firmware-loading.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 1d9b168d8ea9a0f51947d0e2f84856e77d2fe7ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:10:45 +0200
Subject: rtlwifi: Fix fallback firmware loading
From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx>
commit 1d9b168d8ea9a0f51947d0e2f84856e77d2fe7ff upstream.
Commit f70e4df2b384 ("rtlwifi: Add code to read new versions of
firmware") added code to load an old firmware file if the new one is
not available. Unfortunately that code is never reached because
request_firmware_nowait() does not wait for the firmware to show up
and returns 0 even if the file is not there.
Use the existing fallback mechanism introduced by commit 62009b7f1279
("rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Add new firmware") instead.
Fixes: f70e4df2b384 ("rtlwifi: Add code to read new versions of firmware")
Signed-off-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c | 17 +++++------------
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/sw.c | 17 +++++------------
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/sw.c
@@ -187,18 +187,10 @@ int rtl8723be_init_sw_vars(struct ieee80
rtlpriv->io.dev, GFP_KERNEL, hw,
rtl_fw_cb);
if (err) {
- /* Failed to get firmware. Check if old version available */
- fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin";
- pr_info("Using firmware %s\n", fw_name);
- err = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, 1, fw_name,
- rtlpriv->io.dev, GFP_KERNEL, hw,
- rtl_fw_cb);
- if (err) {
- pr_err("Failed to request firmware!\n");
- vfree(rtlpriv->rtlhal.pfirmware);
- rtlpriv->rtlhal.pfirmware = NULL;
- return 1;
- }
+ pr_err("Failed to request firmware!\n");
+ vfree(rtlpriv->rtlhal.pfirmware);
+ rtlpriv->rtlhal.pfirmware = NULL;
+ return 1;
}
return 0;
}
@@ -289,6 +281,7 @@ static const struct rtl_hal_cfg rtl8723b
.bar_id = 2,
.write_readback = true,
.name = "rtl8723be_pci",
+ .alt_fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8723befw.bin",
.ops = &rtl8723be_hal_ops,
.mod_params = &rtl8723be_mod_params,
.maps[SYS_ISO_CTRL] = REG_SYS_ISO_CTRL,
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/sw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/sw.c
@@ -216,18 +216,10 @@ int rtl8821ae_init_sw_vars(struct ieee80
rtlpriv->io.dev, GFP_KERNEL, hw,
rtl_fw_cb);
if (err) {
- /* Failed to get firmware. Check if old version available */
- fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin";
- pr_info("Using firmware %s\n", fw_name);
- err = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, 1, fw_name,
- rtlpriv->io.dev, GFP_KERNEL, hw,
- rtl_fw_cb);
- if (err) {
- pr_err("Failed to request normal firmware!\n");
- vfree(rtlpriv->rtlhal.wowlan_firmware);
- vfree(rtlpriv->rtlhal.pfirmware);
- return 1;
- }
+ pr_err("Failed to request normal firmware!\n");
+ vfree(rtlpriv->rtlhal.wowlan_firmware);
+ vfree(rtlpriv->rtlhal.pfirmware);
+ return 1;
}
/*load wowlan firmware*/
pr_info("Using firmware %s\n", wowlan_fw_name);
@@ -331,6 +323,7 @@ static const struct rtl_hal_cfg rtl8821a
.bar_id = 2,
.write_readback = true,
.name = "rtl8821ae_pci",
+ .alt_fw_name = "rtlwifi/rtl8821aefw.bin",
.ops = &rtl8821ae_hal_ops,
.mod_params = &rtl8821ae_mod_params,
.maps[SYS_ISO_CTRL] = REG_SYS_ISO_CTRL,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from svenjoac@xxxxxx are
queue-4.12/rtlwifi-fix-fallback-firmware-loading.patch
queue-4.12/rtlwifi-fix-memory-leak-when-firmware-request-fails.patch