On Sun, 2016-02-21 at 14:01 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On (02/20/16 22:59), Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 18:22 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > Set firmware_buf->size in fw_get_filesystem_firmware() after
> > > successful kernel_read_file_from_path(), otherwise assign_firmware_buf()
> > > fails.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > > index b8bc846..7cf41a5 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > > @@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ static int fw_get_filesystem_firmware(struct device 
> > > *device,
> > >           }
> > >           dev_dbg(device, "direct-loading %s\n",
> > >                   buf->fw_id);
> > > +         buf->size = size;
> > >           fw_finish_direct_load(device, buf);
> > >           break;
> > >   }
> > 
> > Thanks, Sergey. 
> > 
> > Somehow this was dropped in v4.
> 
> sure, no prob.
> if there is a way to fold this small fix into the original patch, then I 
> wouldn't
> mind at all to go with this option.

Will do, thanks.
> 
> The other thing is that, the dmesg output has changed, and now it keeps the
> log of unsuccessful ucode accesses from ->ucode_api_max to ->ucode_api_min:
> 
> [    1.236866] Unable to open file: 
> /lib/firmware/updates/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode
>  (-2)
> [    1.236874] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading 
> /lib/firmware/updates/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode
>  failed with error -2
> [    1.236889] Unable to open file: 
> /lib/firmware/updates/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
> [    1.236894] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading 
> /lib/firmware/updates/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
> [    1.237064] Unable to open file: 
> /lib/firmware/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode 
> (-2)
> [    1.237073] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading 
> /lib/firmware/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode 
> failed with error -2
> [    1.237094] Unable to open file: /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode (-2)
> [    1.237099] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading 
> /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
> [    1.237106] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Direct firmware load for 
> iwlwifi-7260-17.ucode failed with error -2
> [    1.237190] Unable to open file: 
> /lib/firmware/updates/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode
>  (-2)
> [    1.237195] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading 
> /lib/firmware/updates/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode
>  failed with error -2
> [    1.237201] Unable to open file: 
> /lib/firmware/updates/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode (-2)
> [    1.237204] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading 
> /lib/firmware/updates/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode failed with error -2
> [    1.237217] Unable to open file: 
> /lib/firmware/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode 
> (-2)
> [    1.237221] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loading 
> /lib/firmware/4.5.0-rc4-mm1-dbg-00407-g2edf49f-dirty/iwlwifi-7260-16.ucode 
> failed with error -2
> 
> 
> is this intentional? is there any reason to give this info back to user or
> this is just a small regression?

Thank you for pointing this out.  The  move from
kernel_read_file_from_fd() to kernel_read_from_path() introduced this
change.  Neither function should display errors.

Mimi


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