Bug#804862: Firmware in alternate directories not supported

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#804862: Firmware in alternate directories not supported
Date	2015-11-12 15:20 +0100
Message-ID	<qu0Tg-1x8-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: src:linux
Version: 3.13~rc6-1~exp1
Severity: important

The patch
"bugfix/all/firmware_class-log-every-success-and-failure.patch" was
incorrectly rebased onto 3.13, causing the firmware loader to continue
looping over the firmware search path after successfully loading
firmware.  (It would also leak memory.)  This was not noticed because
firmware is usually loaded from /lib/firmware which is at the end of
the path.

This bug is present in jessie and later suites.

Ben.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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