+ ipmi-fix-timeout-list-handling.patch added to -mm tree

+ ipmi-fix-timeout-list-handling.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     IPMI: fix timeout list handling
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     ipmi-fix-timeout-list-handling.patch

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Subject: IPMI: fix timeout list handling
From: David Barksdale <amatus@ocgnet.org>

Fix a dangling pointer bug in ipmi_timeout_handler.  A list of timedout
messages is not re-initialized before reuse, causing the head of the list
to point to freed memory.

Signed-off-by: David Barksdale <amatus@ocgnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-fix-timeout-list-handling drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c~ipmi-fix-timeout-list-handling
+++ a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -3654,8 +3654,6 @@ static void ipmi_timeout_handler(long ti
 	unsigned long        flags;
 	int                  i;
 
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&timeouts);
-
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(intf, &ipmi_interfaces, link) {
 		/* See if any waiting messages need to be processed. */
@@ -3676,6 +3674,7 @@ static void ipmi_timeout_handler(long ti
 		/* Go through the seq table and find any messages that
 		   have timed out, putting them in the timeouts
 		   list. */
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&timeouts);
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&intf->seq_lock, flags);
 		for (i = 0; i < IPMI_IPMB_NUM_SEQ; i++)
 			check_msg_timeout(intf, &(intf->seq_table[i]),
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from amatus@ocgnet.org are

ipmi-fix-timeout-list-handling.patch