firmware: fix NULL pointer dereference in __fw_load_abort()
Since commit 5d47ec02 ("firmware: Correct handling of fw_state_wait() return value") fw_load_abort() could be called twice and lead us to a kernel crash. This happens only when the firmware fallback mechanism (regular or custom) is used. The fallback mechanism exposes a sysfs interface for userspace to upload a file and notify the kernel when the file is loaded and ready, or to cancel an upload by echo'ing -1 into on the loading file: echo -n "-1" > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading This will call fw_load_abort(). Some distributions actually have a udev rule in place to *always* immediately cancel all firmware fallback mechanism requests (Debian), they have: $ cat /lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules # stub for immediately telling the kernel that userspace firmware loading # failed; necessary to avoid long timeouts with CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", ATTR{loading}="-1 Distributions with this udev rule wo...
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