netdev - Re: [patch] atm: forever loop loading ambassador firmware

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Date:	Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:40:44 -0500
From:	chas williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] atm: forever loop loading ambassador firmware

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:29:35 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:

> There was a forever loop introduced here when we converted this to
> request_firmware() back in 2008.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

This certainly does seem to be the case.

Acked-by: Chas Williams <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>

> ---
> Spotted in code reading.  Untested.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/atm/ambassador.c b/drivers/atm/ambassador.c
> index 89b30f3..ff7bb8a 100644
> --- a/drivers/atm/ambassador.c
> +++ b/drivers/atm/ambassador.c
> @@ -1961,6 +1961,7 @@ static int __devinit ucode_init (loader_block * lb, amb_dev * dev) {
>      res = loader_verify(lb, dev, rec);
>      if (res)
>        break;
> +    rec = ihex_next_binrec(rec);
>    }
>    release_firmware(fw);
>    if (!res)
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