[PATCH] ibmaem: Prevent infinite probing loop on x3650 M2 systems

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 18:39:35 EST


On older machines, probing for a nonexistent AEM interface returned an IPMI
error; when we saw this, we'd stop probing. On the x3650 M2 and (presumably)
later, we are returned a value indicating success and a buffer full of garbage
or zeroes. This causes the probe function to run in an infinite loop. To fix
this, we add one last check--if the interface number we're looking for is
higher than the number of interfaces that AEM claims to have, stop probing.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
index c1ee7dd..0f70dc2 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c
@@ -682,7 +682,8 @@ static int aem_find_aem2(struct aem_ipmi_data *data,
return -ETIMEDOUT;

if (data->rx_result || data->rx_msg_len != sizeof(*fi_resp) ||
- memcmp(&fi_resp->id, &system_x_id, sizeof(system_x_id)))
+ memcmp(&fi_resp->id, &system_x_id, sizeof(system_x_id)) ||
+ fi_resp->num_instances <= instance_num)
return -ENOENT;

return 0;
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