From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933495Ab3E1D4r (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 23:56:47 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:52511 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758949Ab3E1DyX (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 May 2013 23:54:23 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Linus Torvalds" , "Corey Minyard" , "Benjamin LaHaise" Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 04:49:53 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [42/94] ipmi: ipmi_devintf: compat_ioctl method fails to take ipmi_mutex In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.101 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.46-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Benjamin LaHaise commit 6368087e851e697679af059b4247aca33a69cef3 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c @@ -838,13 +838,25 @@ static long compat_ipmi_ioctl(struct fil 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,