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From: "Stanislaw W. Gruszka" <stf_xl@wp.pl>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:44:51 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [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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