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Subject[PATCH] ipmi: fix inconsistent spinlock usage
Linus,

An obvious bug. Thanks, Hironobu.

Part of a patch was accidentally reverted, this corrects an
inconsistent spinlock use in the IPMI message handler.

Signed-off-by: Hironobu Ishii <hishii@soft.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

Index: linux-2.6.14-rc4/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-rc4.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc4/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -2664,7 +2664,7 @@ void ipmi_smi_msg_received(ipmi_smi_t
spin_lock_irqsave(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock, flags);
if (!list_empty(&intf->waiting_msgs)) {
list_add_tail(&msg->link, &intf->waiting_msgs);
- spin_unlock(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock, flags);
goto out;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock, flags);
@@ -2673,9 +2673,9 @@ void ipmi_smi_msg_received(ipmi_smi_t
if (rv > 0) {
/* Could not handle the message now, just add it to a
list to handle later. */
- spin_lock(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock, flags);
list_add_tail(&msg->link, &intf->waiting_msgs);
- spin_unlock(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock, flags);
} else if (rv == 0) {
ipmi_free_smi_msg(msg);
}
-
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