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From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
	Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] ipmi: ipmi_devintf: compat_ioctl method fails to take ipmi_mutex
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 14:04:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1368731067-31404-5-git-send-email-cminyard@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368731067-31404-1-git-send-email-cminyard@mvista.com>

From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>

When a 32 bit version of ipmitool is used on a 64 bit kernel, the
ipmi_devintf code fails to correctly acquire ipmi_mutex.  This results in
incomplete data being retrieved in some cases, or other possible failures.
Add a wrapper around compat_ipmi_ioctl() to take ipmi_mutex to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
index 9eb360f..d5a5f02 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
@@ -837,13 +837,25 @@ static long compat_ipmi_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
 		return ipmi_ioctl(filep, cmd, arg);
 	}
 }
+
+static long unlocked_compat_ipmi_ioctl(struct file *filep, unsigned int cmd,
+				       unsigned long arg)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	mutex_lock(&ipmi_mutex);
+	ret = compat_ipmi_ioctl(filep, cmd, arg);
+	mutex_unlock(&ipmi_mutex);
+
+	return ret;
+}
 #endif
 
 static const struct file_operations ipmi_fops = {
 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
 	.unlocked_ioctl	= ipmi_unlocked_ioctl,
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
-	.compat_ioctl   = compat_ipmi_ioctl,
+	.compat_ioctl   = unlocked_compat_ipmi_ioctl,
 #endif
 	.open		= ipmi_open,
 	.release	= ipmi_release,
-- 
1.7.9.5


      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-16 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-16 19:04 [PATCH 0/4] ipmi: Some minor fixes Corey Minyard
2013-05-16 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] drivers: char: ipmi: Replaced kmalloc and strcpy with kstrdup Corey Minyard
2013-05-16 19:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] drivers/char/ipmi: memcpy, need additional 2 bytes to avoid memory overflow Corey Minyard
2013-05-16 19:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] ipmi: Improve error messages on failed irq enable Corey Minyard
2013-05-16 22:23   ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-05-17  3:47     ` Corey Minyard
2013-05-17  4:57       ` Joe Perches
2013-05-16 19:04 ` Corey Minyard [this message]

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