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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6de65fcfdb51835789b245203d1bfc8d14cb1e06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joeseph Chang <joechang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 20:22:09 -0600 Subject: ipmi: Fix kernel panic at ipmi_ssif_thread() From: Joeseph Chang <joechang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/ipmi-fix-kernel-panic-at-ipmi_ssif_thread.patch