netdev - Re: [patch 1/1] starfire: clean up properly if firmware loading fails

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:49:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	michael@...fatt.org.nz, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] starfire: clean up properly if firmware loading
 fails

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:27:09 -0800

> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> 
> netdev_open() will return without cleaning up net device or hardware state
> if firmware loading fails.  This results in a BUG() on a second attempt to
> bring the interface up, reported in
> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15117>, and probably has even
> worse effects if the driver is removed afterwards.
> 
> Call netdev_close() to clean up on failure.
> 
> Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15091
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Reported-by: Michael Moffatt <michael@...fatt.org.nz>
> Tested-by: Michael Moffatt <michael@...fatt.org.nz>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: <stable@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied, thanks everyone!
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