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ihex: request_ihex_firmware() function to load and validate firmware

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Provide a helper to load the file and validate it in one call, to
simplify error handling in the drivers which are going to use it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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David Woodhouse 2008-05-31 15:20:37 +03:00 committed by David Woodhouse
parent bacfe09dd7
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include/linux/ihex.h
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@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/firmware.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
/* Intel HEX files actually limit the length to 256 bytes, but we have
drivers which would benefit from using separate records which are
@ -47,4 +48,27 @@ static inline int ihex_validate_fw(const struct firmware *fw)
}
return -EINVAL;
}
/* Request firmware and validate it so that we can trust we won't
* run off the end while reading records... */
static inline int request_ihex_firmware(const struct firmware **fw,
const char *fw_name,
struct device *dev)
{
const struct firmware *lfw;
int ret;
ret = request_firmware(&lfw, fw_name, dev);
if (ret)
return ret;
ret = ihex_validate_fw(lfw);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Firmware \"%s\" not valid IHEX records\n",
fw_name);
release_firmware(lfw);
return ret;
}
*fw = lfw;
return 0;
}
#endif /* __LINUX_IHEX_H__ */