This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipmi: ipmb: Fix the MODULE_PARM_DESC associated to 'retry_time_ms'
to the 6.1-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-ipmb-fix-the-module_parm_desc-associated-to-retry_time_ms.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From befb28f2676a65a5a4cc4626ae224461d8785af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 11:04:01 +0100
Subject: ipmi: ipmb: Fix the MODULE_PARM_DESC associated to 'retry_time_ms'
From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit befb28f2676a65a5a4cc4626ae224461d8785af6 upstream.
'This should be 'retry_time_ms' instead of 'max_retries'.
Fixes: 63c4eb347164 ("ipmi:ipmb: Add initial support for IPMI over IPMB")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <0d8670cff2c656e99a832a249e77dc90578f67de.1675591429.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ipmb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ipmb.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ipmb.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(bmcaddr, "Address to us
static unsigned int retry_time_ms = 250;
module_param(retry_time_ms, uint, 0644);
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_retries, "Timeout time between retries, in milliseconds.");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(retry_time_ms, "Timeout time between retries, in milliseconds.");
static unsigned int max_retries = 1;
module_param(max_retries, uint, 0644);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/usb-early-xhci-dbc-fix-a-potential-out-of-bound-memo.patch
queue-6.1/misc-fastrpc-fix-an-error-handling-path-in-fastrpc_r.patch
queue-6.1/spi-synquacer-fix-timeout-handling-in-synquacer_spi_.patch
queue-6.1/s390-vfio-ap-fix-an-error-handling-path-in-vfio_ap_m.patch
queue-6.1/ipmi-ipmb-fix-the-module_parm_desc-associated-to-retry_time_ms.patch
queue-6.1/x86-signal-fix-the-value-returned-by-strict_sas_size.patch
