2.6.8.1-mm1: oops with firmware loading

Hi,

The new sysfs-backingstore patches cause an oops when I ifup a prism54 based device, heres the dmesg section:

Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
PCI: Enabling device 0000:03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth2: islpci_open()
eth2: resetting device...
eth2: uploading firmware...

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
 printing eip:
00000000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT
Modules linked in: prism54 firmware_class sonypi ipv6 usbhid ds ohci_hcd

ohci1394 yenta_socket pcmcia_core ehci_hcd uhci_hcd intel_agp agpgart snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mixer_oss snd soundcore usbcore ntfs vfat fat eth1394 ieee1394 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth

CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<00000000>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010296   (2.6.8.1-mm1)

EIP is at 0x0
eax: f749542c ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: f7227000
esi: f7495388 edi: 00001000 ebp: f789d99c esp: f74dbf38
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process cp (pid: 9839, threadinfo=f74db000 task=f7a5abb0)

Stack: c018745e 00000000 00000000 00001000 00001000 f78c9a40 c0187526
00000000
       00000000 00001000 00000000 00000000 f7227000 bfffe5b0 c03914e0
f78c9a40
       00001000 f74dbfac c015402e f74dbfac 00014e00 00000003 bfffe5b0
f78c9a40
Call Trace:
 [<c018745e>] flush_write+0x2e/0x40
 [<c0187526>] write+0xb6/0x120
 [<c015402e>] vfs_write+0xfe/0x130
 [<c0154111>] sys_write+0x41/0x70
 [<c0103fe9>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71
Code:  Bad EIP value.
 <3>prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'

eth2: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')

Backing out all sysfs-backing-store patches cures the problem. (sysfs-backing-store-prepare-file_perations.patch alone triggers the
oops)

I think the oops comes from
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:423

Thanks,

Manuel Lauss
Student HSSE / FH Hagenberg