Patch "ipmi: Fix kernel panic at ipmi_ssif_thread()" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipmi: Fix kernel panic at ipmi_ssif_thread()

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipmi-fix-kernel-panic-at-ipmi_ssif_thread.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 6de65fcfdb51835789b245203d1bfc8d14cb1e06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joeseph Chang <joechang@codeaurora.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:22:09 -0600
Subject: ipmi: Fix kernel panic at ipmi_ssif_thread()

From: Joeseph Chang <joechang@codeaurora.org>

commit 6de65fcfdb51835789b245203d1bfc8d14cb1e06 upstream.

msg_written_handler() may set ssif_info->multi_data to NULL
when using ipmitool to write fru.

Before setting ssif_info->multi_data to NULL, add new local
pointer "data_to_send" and store correct i2c data pointer to
it to fix NULL pointer kernel panic and incorrect ssif_info->multi_pos.

Signed-off-by: Joeseph Chang <joechang@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -891,6 +891,7 @@ static void msg_written_handler(struct s
 		 * for details on the intricacies of this.
 		 */
 		int left;
+		unsigned char *data_to_send;
 
 		ssif_inc_stat(ssif_info, sent_messages_parts);
 
@@ -899,6 +900,7 @@ static void msg_written_handler(struct s
 			left = 32;
 		/* Length byte. */
 		ssif_info->multi_data[ssif_info->multi_pos] = left;
+		data_to_send = ssif_info->multi_data + ssif_info->multi_pos;
 		ssif_info->multi_pos += left;
 		if (left < 32)
 			/*
@@ -912,7 +914,7 @@ static void msg_written_handler(struct s
 		rv = ssif_i2c_send(ssif_info, msg_written_handler,
 				  I2C_SMBUS_WRITE,
 				  SSIF_IPMI_MULTI_PART_REQUEST_MIDDLE,
-				  ssif_info->multi_data + ssif_info->multi_pos,
+				  data_to_send,
 				  I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_DATA);
 		if (rv < 0) {
 			/* request failed, just return the error. */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from joechang@codeaurora.org are

queue-4.10/ipmi-fix-kernel-panic-at-ipmi_ssif_thread.patch