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* IPMI Panic bug
@ 2005-12-14 21:10 Paolo Galtieri
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From: Paolo Galtieri @ 2005-12-14 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel; +Cc: Corey Minyard

Folks,
  while doing some testing I discovered that if the BIOS on a
board does not properly setup the DMI information it leads to 
a panic in the IPMI code.  The panic is due to dereferencing 
a pointer which is not initialized.  The pointer is initialized
in port_setup() and/or mem_setup() and used in init_one_smi() and
cleanup_one_si(), however if either port_setup() or mem_setup()
return ENODEV the pointer does not get initialized.  The patch
is below done against 2.6.15-rc5-git4

Paolo

--- linux-2.6.15-rc5/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c	2005-12-05
10:02:56.000000000 -0700
+++ new-linux-2.6.15-rc5/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c	2005-12-14
13:57:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -2399,7 +2399,8 @@
 			new_smi->handlers->cleanup(new_smi->si_sm);
 		kfree(new_smi->si_sm);
 	}
-	new_smi->io_cleanup(new_smi);
+	if (new_smi->io_cleanup)
+		new_smi->io_cleanup(new_smi);
 
 	return rv;
 }
@@ -2518,7 +2519,8 @@
 
 	kfree(to_clean->si_sm);
 
-	to_clean->io_cleanup(to_clean);
+	if (to_clean->io_cleanup)
+		to_clean->io_cleanup(to_clean);
 }
 
 static __exit void cleanup_ipmi_si(void)




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