From: Yuho Choi <dbgh9129@gmail.com>
To: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yuho Choi <dbgh9129@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] ACPI: IPMI: Fix message kref handling on dead device
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 12:31:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260603163108.2149359-1-dbgh9129@gmail.com> (raw)
acpi_ipmi_space_handler() takes an extra reference on tx_msg before
checking whether the selected IPMI device is dead. The reference
belongs to the tx_msg_list entry and is normally dropped by
ipmi_cancel_tx_msg() or ipmi_flush_tx_msg() after the message is removed
from the list.
On the dead-device path, the message has not been queued yet, but the
error path still calls ipmi_msg_release() directly. That bypasses
kref_put() and frees tx_msg while the queued-message reference is still
recorded in the kref count.
Take the queued-message reference only after the dead-device check
succeeds, immediately before adding tx_msg to the list.
Fixes: 7b9844772237 ("ACPI / IPMI: Add reference counting for ACPI IPMI transfers")
Signed-off-by: Yuho Choi <dbgh9129@gmail.com>
---
drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c
index 8f1aeae8b72e..79ce6e72bf29 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c
@@ -550,7 +550,6 @@ acpi_ipmi_space_handler(u32 function, acpi_physical_address address,
return AE_TYPE;
}
- acpi_ipmi_msg_get(tx_msg);
mutex_lock(&driver_data.ipmi_lock);
/* Do not add a tx_msg that can not be flushed. */
if (ipmi_device->dead) {
@@ -558,6 +557,7 @@ acpi_ipmi_space_handler(u32 function, acpi_physical_address address,
ipmi_msg_release(tx_msg);
return AE_NOT_EXIST;
}
+ acpi_ipmi_msg_get(tx_msg);
spin_lock_irqsave(&ipmi_device->tx_msg_lock, flags);
list_add_tail(&tx_msg->head, &ipmi_device->tx_msg_list);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ipmi_device->tx_msg_lock, flags);
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-06-03 16:31 UTC|newest]
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2026-06-03 16:31 Yuho Choi [this message]
2026-06-08 12:36 ` [PATCH v1] ACPI: IPMI: Fix message kref handling on dead device Rafael J. Wysocki
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