[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 021/191] ipmi:dmi: Ignore IPMI SMBIOS entries with a zero base address

Sasha Levin
2019-11-10T02:41:09Z

From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>

[ Upstream commit 1574608f5f4204440d6d9f52b971aba967664764 ]

Looking at logs from systems all over the place, it looks like tons
of broken systems exist that set the base address to zero. I can
only guess that is some sort of non-standard idea to mark the
interface as not being present. It can't be zero, anyway, so just
complain and ignore it.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c
index e2c143861b1e5..28dbd5529188a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_dmi.c
@@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ static void __init dmi_decode_ipmi(const struct dmi_header *dm)
slave_addr = data[DMI_IPMI_SLAVEADDR];

memcpy(&base_addr, data + DMI_IPMI_ADDR, sizeof(unsigned long));
+ if (!base_addr) {
+ pr_err("Base address is zero, assuming no IPMI interface\n");
+ return;
+ }
if (len >= DMI_IPMI_VER2_LENGTH) {
if (type == IPMI_DMI_TYPE_SSIF) {
offset = 0;
--
2.20.1