firmware loader: allow builtin firmware load even if usermodehelper is disabled

torvalds · torvalds · commit caca9510ff4e · 2011-08-24T15:55:30.000-07:00
In commit a144c6a ("PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks are frozen") we not only printed a warning if somebody tried to load the firmware when tasks are frozen - we also failed the load. But that check was done before the check for built-in firmware, and then when we disallowed usermode helpers during bootup (commit 288d5ab: "Boot up with usermodehelper disabled"), that actually means that built-in modules can no longer load their firmware even if the firmware is built in too. Which used to work, and some people depended on it for the R100 driver. So move the test for usermodehelper_is_disabled() down, to after checking the built-in firmware. This should fix: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40952 Reported-by: James Cloos <cloos@hjcloos.com> Bisected-by: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -521,11 +521,6 @@ static int _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p,
 	if (!firmware_p)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (WARN_ON(usermodehelper_is_disabled())) {
-		dev_err(device, "firmware: %s will not be loaded\n", name);
-		return -EBUSY;
-	}
-
 	*firmware_p = firmware = kzalloc(sizeof(*firmware), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!firmware) {
 		dev_err(device, "%s: kmalloc(struct firmware) failed\n",
@@ -539,6 +534,12 @@ static int _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (WARN_ON(usermodehelper_is_disabled())) {
+		dev_err(device, "firmware: %s will not be loaded\n", name);
+		retval = -EBUSY;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (uevent)
 		dev_dbg(device, "firmware: requesting %s\n", name);
 
