This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled test_firmware: fix setting old custom fw path back on exit, second to my driver-core git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git in the driver-core-linus branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From e538409257d0217a9bc715686100a5328db75a15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 22:38:49 +0200 Subject: test_firmware: fix setting old custom fw path back on exit, second try Commit 65c79230576 tried to clear the custom firmware path on exit by writing a single space to the firmware_class.path parameter. This doesn't work because nothing strips this space from the value stored and fw_get_filesystem_firmware() only ignores zero-length paths. Instead, write a null byte. Fixes: 0a8adf58475 ("test: add firmware_class loader test") Fixes: 65c79230576 ("test_firmware: fix setting old custom fw path back on exit") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_lib.sh | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_lib.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_lib.sh index 9ea31b57d71a..962d7f4ac627 100755 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_lib.sh +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_lib.sh @@ -154,11 +154,13 @@ test_finish() if [ "$HAS_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER" = "yes" ]; then echo "$OLD_TIMEOUT" >/sys/class/firmware/timeout fi - if [ "$OLD_FWPATH" = "" ]; then - OLD_FWPATH=" " - fi if [ "$TEST_REQS_FW_SET_CUSTOM_PATH" = "yes" ]; then - echo -n "$OLD_FWPATH" >/sys/module/firmware_class/parameters/path + if [ "$OLD_FWPATH" = "" ]; then + # A zero-length write won't work; write a null byte + printf '\000' >/sys/module/firmware_class/parameters/path + else + echo -n "$OLD_FWPATH" >/sys/module/firmware_class/parameters/path + fi fi if [ -f $FW ]; then rm -f "$FW" -- 2.17.0