diff --git a/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst b/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
index 6f8f36e10e8b..95999302d279 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
@@ -244,10 +244,11 @@ disclosure of a particular issue, unless requested by a response team or by
 an involved disclosed party. The current ambassadors list:
 
   ============= ========================================================
-  ARM           Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>
   AMD		Tom Lendacky <tom.lendacky@amd.com>
-  IBM Z         Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
-  IBM Power     Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com>
+  Ampere	Darren Hart <darren@os.amperecomputing.com>
+  ARM		Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
+  IBM Power	Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com>
+  IBM Z		Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
   Intel		Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
   Qualcomm	Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
 
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
index 94d1789a233e..406a907a4cae 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
@@ -735,6 +735,8 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
 		  size_t offset, u32 opt_flags)
 {
 	struct firmware *fw = NULL;
+	struct cred *kern_cred = NULL;
+	const struct cred *old_cred;
 	bool nondirect = false;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -751,6 +753,18 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
 	if (ret <= 0) /* error or already assigned */
 		goto out;
 
+	/*
+	 * We are about to try to access the firmware file. Because we may have been
+	 * called by a driver when serving an unrelated request from userland, we use
+	 * the kernel credentials to read the file.
+	 */
+	kern_cred = prepare_kernel_cred(NULL);
+	if (!kern_cred) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	old_cred = override_creds(kern_cred);
+
 	ret = fw_get_filesystem_firmware(device, fw->priv, "", NULL);
 
 	/* Only full reads can support decompression, platform, and sysfs. */
@@ -776,6 +790,9 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
 	} else
 		ret = assign_fw(fw, device);
 
+	revert_creds(old_cred);
+	put_cred(kern_cred);
+
  out:
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		fw_abort_batch_reqs(fw);