From: Stanislaw W. Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 03:44:51 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] request_firmware(): avoid race conditions
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc1~31
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b92eac01c3c6ad5dab5c74d3bc32ac8e9bf4dae7;p=pandora-kernel.git

[PATCH] request_firmware(): avoid race conditions

Avoid race occurs when some process have open file descriptor for class
device attributes and already firmware allocated memory are freed.  Don't
allow negative loading timeout.

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw W. Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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