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[PATCH] acenic: Pass up error code from ace_load_firmware()

From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2009-10-12 01:35:28
Subsystem: networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

If ace_load_firmware() fails, ace_init() cleans up but still returns
0, leading to an oops as seen in <http://bugs.debian.org/521383>.
It should pass the error code up.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
Compile-tested only.

Ben.

 drivers/net/acenic.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/acenic.c b/drivers/net/acenic.c
index 08419ee..12bfc44 100644
--- a/drivers/net/acenic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/acenic.c
@@ -1209,7 +1209,8 @@ static int __devinit ace_init(struct net_device *dev)
 	memset(ap->info, 0, sizeof(struct ace_info));
 	memset(ap->skb, 0, sizeof(struct ace_skb));
 
-	if (ace_load_firmware(dev))
+	ecode = ace_load_firmware(dev);
+	if (ecode)
 		goto init_error;
 
 	ap->fw_running = 0;
-- 
1.6.4.3

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