tree 23d8b84caeee73709f6a6837f773ed4b4be84444
parent bcc8ca09920755520ba8a1e2d9f72fe8ff892643
author Stanislaw W. Gruszka <stf_xl@wp.pl> 1120016691 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> 1120018830 -0700

[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>