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authorJoeseph Chang <joechang@codeaurora.org>2017-03-27 20:22:09 -0600
committerCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2017-04-07 12:25:22 -0500
commit6de65fcfdb51835789b245203d1bfc8d14cb1e06 (patch)
treed4c54a5c8abf83d416c72cde8374cc7224897c0c /drivers/char
parentMerge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip (diff)
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ipmi: Fix kernel panic at ipmi_ssif_thread()
msg_written_handler() may set ssif_info->multi_data to NULL when using ipmitool to write fru. Before setting ssif_info->multi_data to NULL, add new local pointer "data_to_send" and store correct i2c data pointer to it to fix NULL pointer kernel panic and incorrect ssif_info->multi_pos. Signed-off-by: Joeseph Chang <joechang@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.19-
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
index cca6e5bc1cea..51ba67de862e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -891,6 +891,7 @@ static void msg_written_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result,
* for details on the intricacies of this.
*/
int left;
+ unsigned char *data_to_send;
ssif_inc_stat(ssif_info, sent_messages_parts);
@@ -899,6 +900,7 @@ static void msg_written_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result,
left = 32;
/* Length byte. */
ssif_info->multi_data[ssif_info->multi_pos] = left;
+ data_to_send = ssif_info->multi_data + ssif_info->multi_pos;
ssif_info->multi_pos += left;
if (left < 32)
/*
@@ -912,7 +914,7 @@ static void msg_written_handler(struct ssif_info *ssif_info, int result,
rv = ssif_i2c_send(ssif_info, msg_written_handler,
I2C_SMBUS_WRITE,
SSIF_IPMI_MULTI_PART_REQUEST_MIDDLE,
- ssif_info->multi_data + ssif_info->multi_pos,
+ data_to_send,
I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA);
if (rv < 0) {
/* request failed, just return the error. */