Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Fix a problem that messages are not issued in run_to_completion mode

[Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>]

Ah, yes, you are correct.  Queued for 4.1.  Thanks.

-corey

On 04/22/2015 09:16 PM, Hidehiro Kawai wrote:
> start_next_msg() issues a message placed in smi_info->waiting_msg
> if it is non-NULL.  However, sender() sets a message to
> smi_info->curr_msg and NULL to smi_info->waiting_msg in the context
> of run_to_completion mode.  As the result, it leads an infinite
> loop by waiting the completion of unissued message when leaving
> dying message after kernel panic.
>
> sender() should set the message to smi_info->waiting_msg not
> curr_msg.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
> Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> index 5e90a18..3d49c70 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> @@ -942,8 +942,7 @@ static void sender(void                *send_info,
>  		 * If we are running to completion, start it and run
>  		 * transactions until everything is clear.
>  		 */
> -		smi_info->curr_msg = msg;
> -		smi_info->waiting_msg = NULL;
> +		smi_info->waiting_msg = msg;
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * Run to completion means we are single-threaded, no