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patch "b43: fix debugfs crash" added to driver-core-testing

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

b43: fix debugfs crash

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
in the driver-core-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the driver-core-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From 51b275a6fe5601834b717351d6cbdb89bd1f308b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Christian Lamparter <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 21:43:03 +0200
Subject: b43: fix debugfs crash

This patch fixes a crash that happens because b43's
debugfs code expects file->f_op to be a pointer to
its own b43_debugfs_fops struct. This is no longer
the case since commit 9fd4dcece43a
("debugfs: prevent access to possibly dead file_operations at file open")

---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/debugfs.c +4 -2
index b4bcd94aff6c..77046384dd80 100644
@@ -524,7 +524,8 @@ static ssize_t b43_debugfs_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	dfops = container_of(file->f_op, struct b43_debugfs_fops, fops);
+	dfops = container_of(debugfs_real_fops(file),
+			     struct b43_debugfs_fops, fops);
 	if (!dfops->read) {
 		err = -ENOSYS;
 		goto out_unlock;
@@ -585,7 +586,8 @@ static ssize_t b43_debugfs_write(struct file *file,
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
-	dfops = container_of(file->f_op, struct b43_debugfs_fops, fops);
+	dfops = container_of(debugfs_real_fops(file),
+			     struct b43_debugfs_fops, fops);
 	if (!dfops->write) {
 		err = -ENOSYS;
 		goto out_unlock;
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