Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/1] Char: ipmi_bt_sm, fix infinite loop | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:14:54 +0100 |
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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> --- 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 f5e4cd7617f6..61e71616689b 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. -- 1.9.0
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