Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ipmi: fix unsigned long underflow | From | Corey Minyard <> | Date | Mon, 7 Aug 2017 07:24:32 -0500 |
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On 08/07/2017 03:41 AM, Weilong Chen wrote: > Hi Minyard, > > I test this patch, it works. > > Thanks. >
Thanks, I added a Tested-by: for you and it's queued for the next release. If it's urgent I can send it in now.
I also added this for the stable kernels 3.16 and later.
-corey
> On 2017/7/30 10:20, minyard@acm.org wrote: >> From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> >> >> When I set the timeout to a specific value such as 500ms, the timeout >> event will not happen in time due to the overflow in function >> check_msg_timeout: >> ... >> ent->timeout -= timeout_period; >> if (ent->timeout > 0) >> return; >> ... >> >> The type of timeout_period is long, but ent->timeout is unsigned long. >> This patch makes the type consistent. >> >> Reported-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com> >> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> >> --- >> I like to keep things consistent (though I obviously messed up here) >> and keep variables that should be positive unsigned. >> >> But you are right, there is a bug here and some inconsistency. >> This patch changes timeout_period to be unsigned and fixes the >> check. Can you try this out? >> >> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 10 ++++++---- >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c >> b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c >> index 810b138..c82d9fd 100644 >> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c >> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c >> @@ -4030,7 +4030,8 @@ smi_from_recv_msg(ipmi_smi_t intf, struct >> ipmi_recv_msg *recv_msg, >> } >> >> static void check_msg_timeout(ipmi_smi_t intf, struct seq_table *ent, >> - struct list_head *timeouts, long timeout_period, >> + struct list_head *timeouts, >> + unsigned long timeout_period, >> int slot, unsigned long *flags, >> unsigned int *waiting_msgs) >> { >> @@ -4043,8 +4044,8 @@ static void check_msg_timeout(ipmi_smi_t intf, >> struct seq_table *ent, >> if (!ent->inuse) >> return; >> >> - ent->timeout -= timeout_period; >> - if (ent->timeout > 0) { >> + if (timeout_period < ent->timeout) { >> + ent->timeout -= timeout_period; >> (*waiting_msgs)++; >> return; >> } >> @@ -4110,7 +4111,8 @@ static void check_msg_timeout(ipmi_smi_t intf, >> struct seq_table *ent, >> } >> } >> >> -static unsigned int ipmi_timeout_handler(ipmi_smi_t intf, long >> timeout_period) >> +static unsigned int ipmi_timeout_handler(ipmi_smi_t intf, >> + unsigned long timeout_period) >> { >> struct list_head timeouts; >> struct ipmi_recv_msg *msg, *msg2; >> >
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