rtlwifi: rtl8723: Add error handling to no existing firmware
authorPing-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 08:31:09 +0000 (16:31 +0800)
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Mon, 8 Jan 2018 17:07:45 +0000 (19:07 +0200)
Without firmware, driver wastes time to download and wait for MCU bootup,
and then kernel core dump finally. If request_firmware fails, the value
max_fw_size=0 is set, so we check the value before downloading firmware.

Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723com/fw_common.c

index efa7e12..0d1ebc8 100644 (file)
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ int rtl8723_download_fw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
        enum version_8723e version = rtlhal->version;
        int max_page;
 
-       if (!rtlhal->pfirmware)
+       if (rtlpriv->max_fw_size == 0 || !rtlhal->pfirmware)
                return 1;
 
        pfwheader = (struct rtlwifi_firmware_header *)rtlhal->pfirmware;