netdev - [PATCH] vxge: Remember to release firmware after upgrading firmware

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:25:20 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ramkrishna Vepa <ramkrishna.vepa@...r.com>,
	Jon Mason <jon.mason@...r.com>,
	Sivakumar Subramani <sivakumar.subramani@...r.com>,
	Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@...r.com>
Subject: [PATCH] vxge: Remember to release firmware after upgrading
 firmware

Regardless of whether the firmware update being performed by 
vxge_fw_upgrade() is a success or not we must still remember to always 
release_firmware() before returning.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
---
 vxge-main.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
index 1ac9b56..c81a651 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
@@ -4120,6 +4120,7 @@ int vxge_fw_upgrade(struct vxgedev *vdev, char *fw_name, int override)
 	       "hotplug event.\n");
 
 out:
+	release_firmware(fw);
 	return ret;
 }
 


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