This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mei: make me client counters less error prone to the 3.11-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: mei-make-me-client-counters-less-error-prone.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1aee351a739153529fbb98ee461777b2abd5e1c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:29:45 +0300 Subject: mei: make me client counters less error prone From: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> commit 1aee351a739153529fbb98ee461777b2abd5e1c9 upstream. 1. u8 counters are prone to hard to detect overflow: make them unsigned long to match bit_ functions argument type 2. don't check me_clients_num for negativity, it is unsigned. 3. init all the me client counters from one place Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c | 10 ++++++---- drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/hbm.c @@ -35,11 +35,15 @@ static void mei_hbm_me_cl_allocate(struc struct mei_me_client *clients; int b; + dev->me_clients_num = 0; + dev->me_client_presentation_num = 0; + dev->me_client_index = 0; + /* count how many ME clients we have */ for_each_set_bit(b, dev->me_clients_map, MEI_CLIENTS_MAX) dev->me_clients_num++; - if (dev->me_clients_num <= 0) + if (dev->me_clients_num == 0) return; kfree(dev->me_clients); @@ -221,7 +225,7 @@ static int mei_hbm_prop_req(struct mei_d struct hbm_props_request *prop_req; const size_t len = sizeof(struct hbm_props_request); unsigned long next_client_index; - u8 client_num; + unsigned long client_num; client_num = dev->me_client_presentation_num; @@ -677,8 +681,6 @@ void mei_hbm_dispatch(struct mei_device if (dev->dev_state == MEI_DEV_INIT_CLIENTS && dev->hbm_state == MEI_HBM_ENUM_CLIENTS) { dev->init_clients_timer = 0; - dev->me_client_presentation_num = 0; - dev->me_client_index = 0; mei_hbm_me_cl_allocate(dev); dev->hbm_state = MEI_HBM_CLIENT_PROPERTIES; --- a/drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/mei_dev.h @@ -396,9 +396,9 @@ struct mei_device { struct mei_me_client *me_clients; /* Note: memory has to be allocated */ DECLARE_BITMAP(me_clients_map, MEI_CLIENTS_MAX); DECLARE_BITMAP(host_clients_map, MEI_CLIENTS_MAX); - u8 me_clients_num; - u8 me_client_presentation_num; - u8 me_client_index; + unsigned long me_clients_num; + unsigned long me_client_presentation_num; + unsigned long me_client_index; struct mei_cl wd_cl; enum mei_wd_states wd_state; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/mei-make-me-client-counters-less-error-prone.patch queue-3.11/mei-bus-stop-wait-for-read-during-cl-state-transition.patch queue-3.11/mei-cancel-stall-timers-in-mei_reset.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html