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Subject[PATCH 3.11 148/182] Char: ipmi_bt_sm, fix infinite loop
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3.11.10.9 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>

commit a94cdd1f4d30f12904ab528152731fb13a812a16 upstream.

In read_all_bytes, we do

unsigned char i;
...
bt->read_data[0] = BMC2HOST;
bt->read_count = bt->read_data[0];
...
for (i = 1; i <= bt->read_count; i++)
bt->read_data[i] = BMC2HOST;

If bt->read_data[0] == bt->read_count == 255, we loop infinitely in the
'for' loop. Make 'i' an 'int' instead of 'char' to get rid of the
overflow and finish the loop after 255 iterations every time.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-and-debugged-by: Rui Hui Dian <rhdian@novell.com>
Cc: Tomas Cech <tcech@suse.cz>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c
index a22a7a5..8156caf 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ static inline void write_all_bytes(struct si_sm_data *bt)

static inline int read_all_bytes(struct si_sm_data *bt)
{
- unsigned char i;
+ unsigned int i;

/*
* length is "framing info", minimum = 4: NetFn, Seq, Cmd, cCode.
--
1.9.1


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